suggests that it is an abnormality,and implies that it is deviant from a "normal" heterosexuality. On the otherhand, history has shown that society's perception of gay activities can bethreatening, if not deadly. Over the centuries they have either been merely"intolerated" or, more often, detested. After a 13th century sermon from SaintThomas Aquinas, society began to view gays as "not only unnatural butdangerous." A genetic component in sexual orientation would tell homosexualsand the world that homosexuality is not a fault, and not the fault of anyoneother than nature. Society's traditional stance on homosexuality has often subjectedhomosexuals to a horrifying list of "cures" at the hands of psychiatrists andpsychologists--usually aimed at heterosexual reorientation. Treatments likethese have almost invariably involved a "negative value judgment concerning theinherent character" of homosexuality. Among these "cures" have!
             been suchsurgical measures as castra
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