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Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so-called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men and Women Who Have Experienced Authentic Change in Sexual Orientation Through Therapy that Works! |publisher=PATH: Positives Alternatives to Homosexuality |url=http://www.voices-of-change.org |quote=The testimonials presented on this site are authentic Voices of Change by men and women who have experienced profound changes in their sexual orientation.  These brave men and women represent thousands of people around the world who feel same-sex attraction (SSA) but don't believe these unwanted feelings represent who they truly are as people nor did they believe these feelings to be unchangeable.  Because they understood their SSA was not inborn but rather the result of a number of underlying risk factors, they chose to work on and resolve these issues, such as: emotional and/or sexual abuse; unmet emotional needs; depression, OCD or other co-morbid disorders; and childhood wounds to their psychosexual and/or psychosocial development. |accessdate=26 Feb 2017}}</ref>

Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so-called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men and Women Who Have Experienced Authentic Change in Sexual Orientation Through Therapy that Works! |publisher=PATH: Positives Alternatives to Homosexuality |url=http://www.voices-of-change.org |quote=The testimonials presented on this site are authentic Voices of Change by men and women who have experienced profound changes in their sexual orientation.  These brave men and women represent thousands of people around the world who feel same-sex attraction (SSA) but don't believe these unwanted feelings represent who they truly are as people nor did they believe these feelings to be unchangeable.  Because they understood their SSA was not inborn but rather the result of a number of underlying risk factors, they chose to work on and resolve these issues, such as: emotional and/or sexual abuse; unmet emotional needs; depression, OCD or other co-morbid disorders; and childhood wounds to their psychosexual and/or psychosocial development. |accessdate=26 Feb 2017}}</ref>

The reported cases of [[ex-homosexuals]] had revealed there is no mysterious force at play, natural or [[supernatural]], [[biological]] or otherwise – just a propensity for men and women to delude themselves. The evidence is clear – believing to be ''‘born that way’'' is nothing more than self-delusion buttressed by yet another variant of the ideomotor effect. The very existence of the ex-gay movement shows that the 'born-that-way' [[myth]] is a lie.<ref name="Lively2009"/>

The reported cases of [[ex-homosexuals]] had revealed there is no mysterious force at play, natural or [[supernatural]], [[biological]] or otherwise – just a propensity for men and women to delude themselves. The evidence is clear – believing to be ''‘born that way’'' is nothing more than self-delusion buttressed by yet another variant of the ideomotor effect. The very existence of the ex-gay movement shows that the 'born-that-way' [[myth]] is a lie.<ref name="Lively2009"/><ref>{{cite book |title=A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality  |author=Joseph Nicolosi  |publisher=Liberal Mind Publishers |place=U.S.A. |year=2017 |chapter=6. Confronting Adolescence |pages=133 |isbn=978-0997637311  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Guide-Preventing-Homosexuality/dp/0997637315 |quote=The education of adolescents involves compassionately but clearly correcting popular misinformation, including these myths: •"Sexual orientation is biologically determined - once gay, always gay." In fact, the lives of many ''ex''-gays testify to the opposite conclusion.}}</ref>

When it comes to [[homosexual]] alias sodomical lifestyle, there is no need for the agency of ''‘gay gene’''{{#tag:ref|cf. Bogus claim: '''"Xq28 - Thanks for the genes mom"'''. ''T shirt sold in gay and lesbian bookstores in the mid-1990s.''<ref name="Ridley">{{cite book |author=Matt Ridley |title=Genome |publisher=Fourth Estate Ltd. |place=London |year=2000 |chapter=Chromosomes X and Y |pages=107 |isbn=978-1857-028355 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVdQfSYU4AUC}}</ref> In 1991, J.M. Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard examined how widespread is homosexual alias sodomical lifestyle among twins when at least one sibling declares to be "homosexual". They reported to have found that 52 percent of the identical twins considered themselves to be "homosexual". From this they suggested that genetic makeup [[Logic of possibility|may]] be the reason so many identical twins were feeling to be "homosexual," i.e. following the homosexual alias sodomical lifestyle. For their hypothesis to be fact, however, there should ''never'' be a case when one identical twin would be so called "homosexual" and other heterosexual. It is genetically impossible since both identical twins share 100 percent of the same genes.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=12 |pages=83, 190–1 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=D.H. Golwyn and C.P. Sevlie, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 54, no.1 pp.39-40}}</ref> Should sodomical behaviour be genetic, then both identical twins would always be either "homosexual" or heterosexual. Bailey and Pillard's findings of only 52 percent discredits their own hypothesis thus in fact they have showed that nongenetic factors play a significant part in shaping so called "sexual preference".<ref name="RBC">{{cite book |title=When Passions Are Confused |author=Jeff Olson |publisher=RBC Ministries, discoveryseries.org |year=1996 |pages=14 |url=http://jesus-revolution.com/Documents/When_Passions_Are_Confused_Understanding_Homosexuality.pdf}}</ref> The scientific community realises that ''“our genes do not make us  

When it comes to [[homosexual]] alias sodomical lifestyle, there is no need for the agency of ''‘gay gene’''{{#tag:ref|cf. Bogus claim: '''"Xq28 - Thanks for the genes mom"'''. ''T shirt sold in gay and lesbian bookstores in the mid-1990s.''<ref name="Ridley">{{cite book |author=Matt Ridley |title=Genome |publisher=Fourth Estate Ltd. |place=London |year=2000 |chapter=Chromosomes X and Y |pages=107 |isbn=978-1857-028355 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVdQfSYU4AUC}}</ref> In 1991, J.M. Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard examined how widespread is homosexual alias sodomical lifestyle among twins when at least one sibling declares to be "homosexual". They reported to have found that 52 percent of the identical twins considered themselves to be "homosexual". From this they suggested that genetic makeup [[Logic of possibility|may]] be the reason so many identical twins were feeling to be "homosexual," i.e. following the homosexual alias sodomical lifestyle. For their hypothesis to be fact, however, there should ''never'' be a case when one identical twin would be so called "homosexual" and other heterosexual. It is genetically impossible since both identical twins share 100 percent of the same genes.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=12 |pages=83, 190–1 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=D.H. Golwyn and C.P. Sevlie, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 54, no.1 pp.39-40}}</ref> Should sodomical behaviour be genetic, then both identical twins would always be either "homosexual" or heterosexual. Bailey and Pillard's findings of only 52 percent discredits their own hypothesis thus in fact they have showed that nongenetic factors play a significant part in shaping so called "sexual preference".<ref name="RBC">{{cite book |title=When Passions Are Confused |author=Jeff Olson |publisher=RBC Ministries, discoveryseries.org |year=1996 |pages=14 |url=http://jesus-revolution.com/Documents/When_Passions_Are_Confused_Understanding_Homosexuality.pdf}}</ref> The scientific community realises that ''“our genes do not make us  

do it”''.<ref>{{cite book |title=My Genes Made Me Do It! - Homosexuality and the scientific evidence |author=NE Whitehead |edition=3 |place=New Zealand |date=October 2013 |chapter=9. The “discovery” of the “gay gene” |url=http://www.mygenes.co.nz/PDFs/Ch9.pdf}}</ref>

do it”''.<ref>{{cite book |title=My Genes Made Me Do It! - Homosexuality and the scientific evidence |author=NE Whitehead |edition=3 |place=New Zealand |date=October 2013 |chapter=9. The “discovery” of the “gay gene” |url=http://www.mygenes.co.nz/PDFs/Ch9.pdf}}</ref>