Science seems near to establishing that most if not all homosexuality is the result of nature and not nurture. There has been evidence of the genetic basis for homosexuality tendencies. If homosexuality is genetic, as the evidence seems to indicate, then our sexual orientation is what it is, like the color of our eyes, hair and skin. Homosexuals do not choose their sexual orientation. If they did, I would not understand why they would choose to be gay in a society that is so intolerant of them, especially when heterosexual relations are presumably just as gratifying.

If homosexuality is indeed genetic, it is not a question of choice and therefore not a question of morality. The problem, then, is not with them but with us. The problem is our treatment of homosexuality as a moral problem. We will solve our problem by dealing with homosexuals as fellow human beings who just happen to born that way. We will know we have solved our problem when gays and lesbians no longer need their clubs because we treat them with understanding and compassion

--Earl Wunderli
Letter to the Editor
Published in the Deseret News
February 21, 1996