Great! Now they will think a drug will FIX us.. I don't wanna be fixed.

Study Finds Gay Gene in Fruit Flies.

Researchers in Chicago have discovered a gene that identifies homosexuality in fruit flies, which can be turned on and off with drugs. David Featherstone, a biologist at University of Illinois, said that while humans have a similar gene, it has yet to be determined whether that gene has any effect on same-sex attractions in humans.
Researchers have found that fruit flies with a mutated "gender-blind" gene are bisexual. The flies cannot tell the difference between male and female pheromones, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The mutation strengthens synapses, causing the flies to overreact to the pheromones. This causes the fruit flies to be attracted to both males and females.
"The [gender-blind] mutant males treated other males exactly the same way normal male flies would treat a female," Featherstone said in the article. "They even attempted copulation."
The study tested the hypothesis by giving the bisexual fruit flies drugs that weakened their synapses. Within hours the flies engaged exclusively in heterosexual activity. The group also gave heterosexual flies drugs that strengthened their synapses, causing them to be attracted to both male and female flies. (The Advocate)

--Ok, I don't how you feel about this tidbit of scientific info, but I am not thrilled. Imagining teenagers taken to a Dr. to have them "fixed" is not an appealing visual. Regardless of a "mutated gene" as they put it, (I prefer to think of it as an "enlightened gene") you still don't choose who you fall in love with.
And before they get too carried away with this discovery...let me just ask this: What kind of scientist spends his days staring endlessly through a camera (probably attachd to a microscope) to catch fruit flies "doing the dirty"??? AND... we already know that some animals engage in bi-sexual behavior and now even the insects are doing it! So, maybe they should realize we arent as "abnormal" as they would like to think. Next, they could decide that the gene that is responsible for red hair is abnormal and eliminate it from the "gene pool" too. AND--I hope our tax dollars aren't paying for this insane research! It would be time and money better spent if they were looking for the gene responsible for being a slob or laziness or chauvanism! Then the world really would be a better place. Just my two cents.