Conservative "Christians" Misrepresent Scientist's Beliefs

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Conservative "Christians" Misrepresent Scientist's Beliefs

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7238
Autumn Sandeen
9/28/2008

Bob Sith, the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC's) National Strategist for Gender Issues, has recently misrepresented the scientific conclusions of Dr. Francis Collins (of the Human Genome Project) in the Baptist Press's Did God create Ray Boltz gay?. Here's how he described Dr. Francis Collins' conclusions:

...For example, in 2003, the International Human Genome Consortium announced the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, which, among other things, identified each of the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA. The press release read: "The human genome is complete and the Human Genome Project is over."
While this accomplishment was widely reported, almost no one reported the words of Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the project. Collins, arguably the nation's most influential geneticist, said, "Homosexuality is not hardwired. There is no gay gene. We mapped the human genome. We now know there is no genetic cause for homosexuality."