gay genes

Gays becoming parents really shouldn’t surprise anyone. Gay people, after all, are the product of straight people. It’s the twenty-first century, and by now we realize that virtually everything we do, everything we say, and everything that happens to us is in someway related to genes—even if the genes in questions haven’t been identified and tagged quite yet. Someday, in human genome laboratories, scientists will confirm what common sense already tells us: Gay people have some straight genes. That is to say, gays have inner straightness. Even the “gayest” person you can think of has straight genes. (By the same token, even white supremacists, evangelical Christians, army generals, Hell’s Angels, Pennsylvania Dutch dairy farmers, and Catholic bishops have gay genes—okay that last one is no surprise.)