Setting straight some ideas on gays

I came across this article in ST today.

"Setting straight some ideas on gays"

yea, such headlines catch my attention better than "Floods could cost XX country XX dollars"

So, naturally, I was thinking... okay.. homosexuality between people..what's up this time?

BUT NO.... Known as the "sexual partner preference testing", this is actually a research on the sexual orientation of SHEEP!!

Apparently, 5 sheep are placed in a 5m by 3m 'arena', of which there are two ewes (female sheep) in heat and two rams (these 4 are restrained in stanchions) while one young ram is free to choose which ewe or ram it wants to hit on.

The scientists then watches, and keep score. what the.... being a very visual person, I was trying to picture the experiment in my heavy head

The results: slightly more than half the rams tested are heterosexual, 20% 'swings' both ways, 15% is asexual and the remaining is gay.

Holy sheep.

This kind of experiment also have!! Can someone tell me if humans are genetically similar to sheep??? First, there's Dolly, now there's i-dunno-what-you-call-this...

The scientist of this research argues that such research shows that sexual preferences is biologically determined in animals, and could possibly be the case for humans too. =_= So, the case is, if we know/think/are certain that homosexuality is natural, we can (i) engineer it, (ii) find ways to prevent it (injecting hormones to foetuses was suggested), and/or (iii) change people's perception abt it (i.e. viewing it more as a disability, like infertility, rather than stigmatising it)

I don't know man... this reminds me of the times I write GP essays, there are so many ways you can argue. My 'feel' is that sexual orientation can't be genetically inherent in all of us.... There are so many other factors: the environment, the people you hang out with, media/social influences, blah blah. How can it purely be science?

We fall in love not because we see with our eyes, but we feel with our hearts. We feel the connection and the chemistry. We search for our soulmates, without a blueprint. Yes, along the way, we learn about the types of attributes/character we're looking for in the one, but there can be tens of thousands of people out there who is humourous/caring/loving/responsible/understanding/mature/make lotsa money/handsome/and-the-list-goes-on.

Yet, there would only be one who has the ability to tug your heart strings.

Is that something that science can prove?

I doubt.