{"id":24327,"date":"2010-06-05T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24327"},"modified":"2012-07-08T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T06:32:03","slug":"public-opinion-on-the-cause-of-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/05\/public-opinion-on-the-cause-of-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion on the Cause of Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/135764\/Americans-Acceptance-Gay-Relations-Crosses-Threshold.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">A blog post at Gallup<\/a>, sent along by Michael Kimmel, discussed nearly 25 years of US opinion on the cause of homosexuality.\u00a0 The data shows a slow decline in the percent of people who think that people are &#8220;made&#8221; gay or lesbian by their upbringing or environment (the nurture argument) and a slow rise in the number of people who think they are &#8220;made&#8221; gay or lesbian by biology (the nature argument).\u00a0 The two meet in the late 1990s and, throughout the 2000s, they&#8217;ve been more-or-less neck-and-neck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/o2h-2pvhdk-in3-lwinf0g.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24328\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/o2h-2pvhdk-in3-lwinf0g.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/o2h-2pvhdk-in3-lwinf0g.gif 542w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/o2h-2pvhdk-in3-lwinf0g-500x301.gif 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I welcome speculation as to why the trend didn&#8217;t continue such that nature ended up beating nurture good by 2010.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think offhand of a reason why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog post at Gallup, sent along by Michael Kimmel, discussed nearly 25 years of US opinion on the cause of homosexuality.\u00a0 The data shows a slow decline in the percent of people who think that people are &#8220;made&#8221; gay or lesbian by their upbringing or environment (the nurture argument) and a slow rise in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,253,272,693,54],"class_list":["post-24327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-public-opinion","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49395,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327\/revisions\/49395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}