Chaplainesque Moments

que mira?

triple kiss

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Chaplain: Do you swear to ...

Oh, I do!

Me, too!
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NVS_Inc says:

very interesting indeed

the guy on the left needs a new t shirt
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

johncarey/ says:

Looks like old Charlie is an observer, a minister, or a referee. Nice symmetry in this shot.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Llego con la Lluvia says:

2 mustages!
3 hombres
2 reales
1 gafas
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

The Wata says:

Some would say clowning around and others would say "un American activity.".
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

art crimes says:

I am pretty sure Charlie Chaplin has seen worse and maybe would have preferred some nice young ladies instead....
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lea Kelley says:

Here, in America, Charlie is the only Chaplain who could perform this ceremony.
He has his minister credentials from Hollywood.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Has "More Wars" McCain been watching 'the Little Dictator?'
He met with Palin once and that decided it. I guess he felt
it in his gut, or, like his mentor, Bush, God whispered secret
advice in his ear (hearing aid turned up fullblast).
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Robin Dude says:

Thanks for the comments. My friends would indeed like to marry, but cannot do so in this state because it is not legally permitted. Allow me to invite all of you & all future visitors to read what follows, & perhaps copy it for sending to your own family & friends.

Most Americans know next to nothing about the scientific research on this subject, so I'll provide a little of it in 3 articles that I'm confident will surprise many readers. I am extremely interested in any remarks made by viewers after reading at least the first 2 of these articles, especially if the remarks say something about how the research alters their thinking or opinion (the 3rd article is an extremely technical & lengthy PDF file which for most persons is adequately summed up in the brief introduction provided).

There is another link following the article below, which includes numerous illustrations depicting & explaining the 'gaydar' phenomenon. I urge everyone to open & read all of it, carefully.

And beneath the above is a link to a study of homophobia.

FIRST ARTICLE

Go to Original: sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006 /06/27/GAY.TMP

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Boy's odds of being gay traced to womb
Study takes new look at puzzling role of brothers' birth order
- Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
A boy's chances of growing up gay increase with the number of older brothers he has, and the Canadian researcher who spotted the trend a decade ago now believes he is closer to explaining why: It all starts in the womb.

Brock University psychologist Anthony Bogaert first reported in 1996 the startling finding that a boy's probability of growing up gay increases by about one-third with each older brother in his family. It's a subtle phenomenon -- nearly all boys even in large families still grow up straight -- but subsequent research has affirmed that the "fraternal birth order effect" is real.

Since that discovery, researchers have been trying to figure out what might explain it. The most likely answer, they thought, had something to do with how younger brothers are raised -- perhaps having many older brothers drives the youngest to adopt a different sex role.

But in a study released Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bogaert unearthed another surprise. The sexual orientation of younger brothers appears to be established before birth.

"These results provide evidence that a prenatal mechanism ... affects men's sexual orientation development,'' he wrote.

Bogaert came to his latest conclusion in a study involving the birth order and family history of 944 men -- about half identifying as straight and the other half gay or bisexual.

In one analysis, he examined the fraternal birth order effect in families in which unrelated older brothers were added to the mix through remarriage of divorced couples or through adoption. In short, if there was something about growing up with a lot of older brothers that raised the chances of a younger boy being gay, it did not show up in these blended families of step-brothers, half-brothers and adoptees.

Bogaert also examined families in which biologically related brothers were raised separately by families after divorce. No matter where the boys were raised -- in small or large families -- the only factor that showed the elevated chance of growing up gay was having older biological brothers.

By ruling out child-raising factors and ruling in biological factors, Bogaert concluded that the results "support a prenatal origin to sexual orientation development in men.''

The finding is consistent with -- but does not prove -- a theory that some male homosexuality may be caused by exposure in the womb to maternal antibodies created in the mother's blood during previous delivery of male children.

Although the placenta provides a barrier between the blood of mother and fetus, during childbirth there is an "inevitable" mixing of maternal and newborn blood, wrote Michigan State University neuroscientist Marc Breedlove, in a commentary accompanying Bogaert's article.

The theory suggests that mothers during childbirth may develop antibodies to proteins made by their firstborn son's Y chromosome, and subsequent pregnancies may stir up those antibodies in an immune reaction that affects the development of a male fetus. "Whether this is really what is happening ... remains to be seen, but it is provocative hypothesis,'' said Breedlove.

So far, scientists have found no similar relationship between birth order and the probability that a girl will grow up to be lesbian. That could be because a female baby has the same double X chromosomes as her mother and is less likely to provoke an immune reaction during childbirth.

Breedlove stressed in an interview Monday that these biological "perturbations" possibly affecting male fetuses should not be confused with disease or a birth defect. They are simply biological effects that steer development. "It just means there is a variation,'' he said.

Breedlove said that he is surprised that Bogaert's original findings about the fraternal birth order effect are not more widely known, because the work is so interesting and has been replicated by other researchers. One reason may be that homosexuality occurs in about 4 to 5 percent of the population, so the increase noted among boys with several older brothers is a small effect involving a small percentage of all people.

Similarly surprising research has found that the fraternal birth order effect is limited to younger boys who are right-handed. In other words, if a younger boy has many older brothers but is left-handed, he does not have an elevated chance of being gay.

"We never dreamed of such an association,'' said Breedlove, a co-author of that study.

The right-handed exception to the fraternal birth order effect was particularly surprising because other research had previously uncovered another puzzler: Both men and women who are left-handed are slightly more likely to be gay.

©2006 San Francisco Chronicle

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SECOND ARTICLE

SOURCE: New York Magazine

The Science of Gaydar

If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits that make people seem gay innate, too? The new research on everything from voice pitch to hair whorl.

Go to Article: nymag.com/news/features/33520/

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THIRD ARTICLE

Study: Homophobics are aroused by homoerotic pictures

The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli. These individuals were selected on the basis of their report of having only heterosexual arousal and experiences. Furthermore, their ratings of erection and arousal to homosexual stimuli were low and not significantly different from nonhomophobic men who demonstrated no significant increase in penile response to homosexual stimuli. These data are consistent with response discordance where verbal judgments are not consistent with physiological reactivity, as in the case of homophobic individuals viewing homosexual stimuli. Lang (1994) has noted that the most dramatic response discordance occurs with reports of feeling and physiologic responses.

Full study: www.oogachaga.com/downloads/homophobia_and_ho mosexual_aro...

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Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Lake Li Sun says:

Chuck in Charge playin' hard to get.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )