Jennifer Roback Morse: The ‘Born Gay’ Myth: When Ideology Masquerades as ScienceScience says: No one is born gay. The National Register, May 15, 2023Actually, it is more accurate to say, “The available science is inconsistent with the claim that people are borngay.” I made the deliberate overstatement to dramatize a point: We are being conned with ideologymasquerading as science. We are being consistently told that science says “being gay” is an inborn immutabletrait of an individual that is beyond their power to change. Therefore, holding people morally accountable iscruel, unreasonable, and, worst of all, out of date and unscientific. The Catholic Church must abandon herancient teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” in order to keep up with the most modernfindings of science. But what if “science” says no such thing?Before addressing this, let me point out an objective historical fact: The Catholic Church’s disapproval ofhomosexual acts was at one time the consensus of the entire Judeo-Christian tradition. The Church’s specificlanguage that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” flows in part from her long dialogue with Greekphilosophy and has a specific philosophical meaning. Homosexual acts are not “ordered” toward the proper endof sexual acts, namely reproduction. Until very recently, the widespread Judeo-Christian view agreed roughlywith today’s Catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexual acts “are contrary to the natural law. Theyclose the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexualcomplementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved” (2357).As a matter of fact, the available science analyzing the human genome clearly says there is no genetic basis fora homosexual identity. A large-scale study of the human genome concluded there is certainly no single geneticdeterminant of same-sex sexual behavior. The study concluded that “all tested genetic variants accounted for8% to 25...