Homosexuality, Faith and Science.

Who am I?

        Just a girl who after a long fight against something complicated, inexplicable and inevitable, decided to accept that love is not explained, but feels and lives! However, faced with a society and religious false dogmas that has nothing to do with God, and his love for humanity, say to yourself, hey you are attracted to a girl, go live ahead no matter what they will say no it's that simple. So for years I suppressed my feelings, that makes me so alive, while so trapped by doubts imposed by those who can not understand what happens to us. No one can be so foolish as to accept to live this tightrope, fueling anxieties and tensions. 

        Thus, to be an enigma for life by taxation rules and not examined and verified by yourself does not seem smart. So what I did? My only concern was always to know why everything exists instead of nothing? Where we came from? Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Considering all the possible and impossible analysis reached the answer, but there is a God who created the heavens and the earth and even sent his beloved son Jesus Christ, so that all who believe in this fact can live fully enjoying an incomparable love and inexplicable grace. Only after this conclusion should even question, the Lord is wrong to have feelings for another woman?

And the answer is, no, of course not, love is a good thing since it is pure and true!

          Why, so much doubt about this? The Scriptures are used and interpreted in different ways for centuries, so the debate on the homosexual issue has arguments, flawed and empty unresponsive and configure the divine perspective with respect to the facts. The passages used to condemn gays, do not hold up, because they are out of context, and do not fit the new newness of life perspective which proposes Jesus in the Gospels, which can be summarized in: love, freedom and truth. Not to stay, gaps and doubts, because it is something a bit complex, I suggest you watch the video below and you can better understand what I'm saying.

       Expanding this discussion we can easily understand that in fact there can be no condemnation because of the individual to be gay, why this is not a choice but a condition as we can understand from genetic studies.

        In fact, the past two decades, scientists have been increasing evidence that homosexuality is not a choice, but determined by genetics. Many sexuality research is beginning to show it. For example, we know that homosexuality is more common in biological relatives of other homosexuals than heterosexuals . [2] Studies also show that the chance that identical twins are both gay men is higher than for non - twin siblings . [3] Recently, a study of 409 pairs of gay twins, the largest held to date, found two regions containing genes that influence the development of sexual orientation [4]. 

       The DNA is composed of nucleotides. When only one nucleotide is changed in the sequence of a gene, called it SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism). The researchers analyzed the genomes of 818 individuals (gay twins) and also the genome of over 90 non-family homosexual these twins. The analysis found SNPs in different genes. This means that homosexuals have some gene whose sequence has a single change, compared to the same genes in heterosexuals. In general, a small change in the gene sequence can make the gene to be expressed differently between individuals, resulting in different characteristics. In the study, the regions with more SNPs found are present on chromosome 8 and the X chromosome (which is one of the sex chromosomes). 

   Among the genes with SNPs, many are related to neuronal development or participate in neurotransmissão.Isso means that the orientation sex appears to be determined before birth.Some findings are interesting: a gene expressed in the brain called CNGA2, it is essential for there to be dependent on sexual behavior odor (odor is connected to testosterone levels and it is important to sexual communication) [5]. Two other genes found, and AVPR2 NPBWR1, are related to the behavior and social interaction in rats [6]. 

     So everything is explained? Different sequences in the genes determine the sexual orientation of the individual? No, nothing is so simple in nature. There are twins (identical genomes) where one is homosexual and heterosexual another, showing that genes can not explain everything. But the explanation for this seems to be still in genetics, more precisely, epigenetics . Simply put, there are factors that "bind" and "turn off" our genes, and that makes individuals with identical genomes may have different characteristics. Scientists have found at least five regions in the human genome that are different between homo- and straight, that is, some genes are 'on' in homosexual and "off" in straight, and vice versa. Evidence suggests that these differences are dependent on the fetal position in the uterus and also the amount of blood received by the fetus from the mother [7]. 

    The existence of male homosexuals has always been an evolutionary genetic paradox, since it exists in several species despite the lower provision for procreation that homosexual individuals have (with consequent not pass the gene to their children). Interestingly, women with the variant gay male genes are not necessarily homosexuals and have higher fertility. Thus, the high fertility of these women in the population seems to "compensate" male homosexuality rate [8]. Some studies show that certain genes related to attraction to men seem to "work" in both homosexuals and women, and in women, it leads to increased reproductive success.

   The latest studies on sexual orientation are at least interesting. Our DNA sequence along with epigenetics explains why mothers and heterosexual parents to have gay children, and the opposite is also true. Moreover, the epigenetic discoveries show how the environment can influence the sexual orientation of the individual, before birth. Just as we are born with brown or blue eyes, we have our intricate sexuality to our DNA.http://www.saense.com.br/2016/08/homossexualidade-e-genetica-e-nao-ha-cura/ 

     Thus analyzing some of the fundamental aspects of this discussion we can understand that God is not against homoafetivas relations, since in fact the individual is not straight. This is a dilemma that many people live or even drop out of life, to repress, thinking they are doing others suffer or violating a Divine rule. I feel obliged to say this, because life is a gift, gift that can not be missed and love can only be experienced, even more knowing that God is love. That way no one has to give up having a relationship and know the Creator, by imagining that you are making a mistake that he condemns. A clear example of this fact, Ellen Page made a controversial statement by saying, "I do not want God's arms but the arms of a girl," Poor Ellen, she does not know you can have both. 

     I want both but above all the God, why in fact nothing makes me happier than being able to have a relationship of love so deep at his side, might know him, understand the world around me, feel what really is love, I feel ecstatic, overflowing, so grateful to know that He is the author of life, of all that is positive for humanity, and for making me understand that being who I am this is among other lesbian things, does not separate me from Him . 

    Because feel something real that makes me so alive, can not be bad and destructive, the simple fact of knowing that the innocent pure love and true, makes possible a harmonious relationship between me and the Creator of the universe. And if I know as stated Dostoyevsk that "there is nothing more beautiful, more profound and more perfect than Christ. Not only nothing, but not even able to be "can not miss the opportunity to be of His hand, and understand that through Him, I have life and life in abundance,