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Attorney Pawlick Is Proven Correct in Five-Year Struggle Against Pinch Sulzberger’s Attempt to Force  Homosexuality Upon Massachusetts
By MassNews Staff
Posted 2-1-2005

           When Attorney J. Edward Pawlick switched in 1998 from being a leader of the lawyers of the state, as the highly respected founder/CEO of Lawyers Weekly publications for 25 years to the founder/CEO of MassNews, he was immediately attacked by the New York Times subsidiary, the Boston Globe.
             Pinch Sulzberger had just been made Chairman of the New York Times Company the  year before (1997), the multi-billion dollar conglomerate which owned the New York Times newspaper and the Globe. (The Times had purchased the Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion, putting Pinch’s inherited wealth clearly way beyond that of Attorney Pawlick.)
            Sulzberger had a private mission to show that all his ancestors had been “homophobes” and he would correct all that.
            But he could not attack Pawlick directly because there was nothing to attack, so in the first headline the Globe printed it quoted homosexual activists as saying that Pawlick’s call for an “Intelligent Discussion” about homosexuality in the schools was “hateful.”
            Pinch’s father had been reluctant to make his son Chairman for many reasons but finally did so in 1997 although yielding to the demand by other family members that his nephew, Michael Golden, a peer of Pinch, be appointed Vice Chairman with an office right down the hall, in case Pinch ever stumbled (which many family members obviously believed would happen).



New Study Proves that “Gay Gene” Theory Is Totally Dead As Pawlick Stated in 1998 and Globe Agreed With, but It Is Being “Spun” the Other Way in 2005
            This week, in an event that happens with regrettable regularity, it was claimed that another geneticist had discovered the elusive “gay gene”: the specific place on the human DNA that determines homosexuality.  However, what few people in the media are reporting is that the actual data from the new study suggests the exact opposite, that homosexuality is not an inherited trait at all.
           The infamous Hamer study published in 1993 where Dr. Dean Hamer (who is a homosexual activist, although that was almost never reported in 1993) claimed to have found that in 40 pairs of gay brothers, 33 had the same set of DNA sequences in a region of the chromosome called Xq28.  
            This discovery was trumpeted in all of the major media across the world.  National Public Radio, Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal all featured the story.  It was suddenly “modern” and “scientific” to acknowledge that homosexuals were “created” that way. 
            However, after Pawlick called for an ”Intelligent Discussion,” the Globe was forced to admit a month later in a large, prominent story in its Sunday paper that Pawlick was correct in his conclusion that the “gay gene” theory was dead (although it never acknowledged Pawlick in its story).

1993 Study Had Been Accepted Everywhere
         Meanwhile the bogus Hamer claim had reverberated through politics as well.  Hamer gave expert testimony to the Colorado Supreme Court, thus forming the basis of the decision striking down Proposition 2, which gay activists considered “anti-gay”.  Hamer himself had declared that he believed that homosexuality was “99.5% genetic”.
        Within a year after the publishing of the Hamer study, however, a different picture of his research began to emerge.  Other scientists attempted to replicate his research.  Some even used the same individuals that Hamer studied.  The unanimous result was that there was no statistical significance to the gene that Hamer claimed was the “gay gene”.    With little fanfare, most of the media and even the gay activist community came to accept the fact that Hamer had falsified his data. 
       The most recent 2005 study that is being touted as a valid “gay gene” research comes with a bit more credibility.  Dr. Brian S. Mustanski is a researcher with the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he boasts that his study is the first “full genome scan in homosexual men”.  It was published on January 12, 2005.  Yesterday (January 31), the BBC carried the story under the headline “Non-sex genes 'link to gay trait.'”  However, the data, as well as the researcher himself don’t even make that claim.
       In this study, Mustanski started with the presupposition that there was an inherited link to homosexuality.   He likened the quest to searching in "a town of 40,000 people” for a doctor, believing that a doctor would live there somewhere.  The researchers in this scenario would knock on every door to ask the residents if a doctor lives on their street.  The 40,000 number corresponds to the approximate number of human genes, and the presumption was that at least one “doctor” or gay gene would be found. 
      A large part of the study is devoted to the data from just one address---Xq28---the same gene that Hamer claimed was the “gay gene”.  Mustanski’s study found absolutely no linkage in his overall samples, even though a large part of his subjects were the exact same subjects Hamer used.
       The sections of his study that are being cited by gay activists, however, are the stretches of DNA shared by 60% of the gay men in the study, which are the genes 7q36, 8p12, and 10q26.  Although this to some may sound like a high correlation, what many reporting this are neglecting to say is that a control group of straight men would have a 50% correlation for these same genes.  Mustanski admits in the study that: “Our strongest finding was on 7q36 with a combined mlod score of 3.45 …this score falls just short of Lander and Kruglyak’s criteria for genomewide significance.”
       In other words, the closest thing he could find to a “match” still fell below a threshold for being anything other than “chance”.  In his search through 40,000 households looking for a “doctor,” there was no doctor to be found.
       Lacking any real correlation for the gay gene hypothesis, Mustanski resorted to floating the idea that many genes are somehow interrelated in determining sexual orientation.  However, his own data doesn’t support that either.  In his conclusion, he says: “We were unable to calculate empirically derived significance levels for this project.” 
       In English that means a full genome scan of human beings and their sexuality came up with nothing.  No positive genetic markers at all for being gay.  In reality, it puts to rest the mythology started by Dean Hamer, and in a thorough and comprehensive way, proves that there is no genetic or inherited dimension to homosexuality. 

 
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