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rainbow4321

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119. Waiting for them to attack NG's comment today that homosexuality is "caused" by "1/2 genetics..."
Thu Dec 15, 2011, 10:40 PM
Dec 2011

and 1/2 environmental"....

He was being interviewed by someone in Iowa when he was asked about his sister who is a lesbian. Paraphrasing here, but he was basically asked about it being a "chosen" lifestyle after they asked about his sister and showed a pic of them together. He couldn't make eye contact with the interviewer, fumbled with some stuff in front of him, and then said he believed it was part genetics, part environmental.
You know the right fringes heads are gonna explode for the genetics part of his answer!

That part of the interview was just a blip on the news today so maybe it has not hit the radar of Fox News and the other clowns on stage with him.

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