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may 2Q. 2005 rwr™ news advising parents to talk with their children about bullying and to kxik for changes in their child’s, behavior. “If we are to ever stop teen and adult bully ing and harassment, we have to begin early," said Bond. “In order to stop this violent schixd- yard act, the help of all—including teachers, parents and professionals—is needed and want ed.” —SD i S weating O ut S exual O rientation males relative to gay males. In a nose-to-nose comparison of the scents of heterosexual females and lesbians, the heteros clearly were preferred by three of the four groups. Heterosexual males were more ambiva lent, which may help explain the allure of girl- on-girl action in straight pom. To Wysocki, the overall data suggest “that lesbians and gay males may produce an array of axillary [armpit] odorants that distinguish them from heterosexual. Furthermore, gay males may perceive the characteristic odorants different from their heterosexual counterparts.” —Bob Roehr Two separate pieces of research on odors and how the brain processes them have strengthened the case that, at least for gay men, there is a strong N un , C atholic P arents biological component to sexual orientation. D efy A rchbishop The studies involved odors and pheromones, On Pentecost Sunday, a Roman Catholic chemical signaling molecules that are pnx:essed nun, a Catholic couple married 44 years and through a set of receptors in the nose and nerve a longtime gay civil rights activist defied connections to the brain. Each of the two sys Archbishop of Chicago Francis Cardinal tems is separate but parallel. Smells are George’s han on giving Communion to mem pnxzessed in olfactory regions of the brain, while bers of rhe Catholic gay group the Rainbow pheromones are processed in hypothalamus, Sash Movement. a more primitive portion of the brain that regu Members of the movement wear a rainbow lates sexual activity. sash during Mass signifying support for equal Earlier work by Ivanka Savic and colleagues treatment of gay and lesbian people in church at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, using and society. Some American Catholic bishops brain imaging techniques, have ordered that had demonstrated that those who wear when males were exposed the sash be denied to a testosterone derivative, Communion. the olfactory regions of Other bishops, their brains lit up, but not including Los the hypothalamus. They Angeles’ Cardinal were processing the molec Roger Mahoney, ular signals as smells and have not forbidden not in a sexual manner. Communion to Males showed exactly the sash wearers. the opposite pattern when The sash wear exposed to derivatives of ers approached the female hormone estro the altar May 15 gen. Females in the study at Chicago’s Holy showed the reverse pattern, Name Cathedral as expected; they processed and were denied exposure to female hor Communion by mones as smells and male associate pastor hormones in the hypothala the Rev. Ron mus. Kunkel. The sash Savic repeated the wearers then experiment, this time returned to their throwing a group of exclu pew. Charlie LaPierre (right) greets Rainbow Sash sively homosexual men into Dominican Sis the mix. She found that the Alliance supporters May 15 outside the ter Donna Quinn, brains of gay men processed Cathedral of St. Paul, Minn. director of the the hormonal stimulus in National Coali the same way as females, not as males. tion of American Nuns; Joseph and Barbara The study was published in the May 17 edi Parot of Parents, Families and Friends of Les tion of the prestigious Proceedings of the National bians and Gays; and longtime Catholic gay Academy of Sciences of the USA. rights activist Rick Garcia also attended the The findings are compatible with those Mass. After the sash wearers were denied, made in 1991 by Simon LeVay. By conducting Quinn, the Parots and Garcia approached the autopsies of the brain, he found that a small altar and received Communion. To the surprise region of the hypothalamus in gay men was sim of some, including the sash wearers, the four ilar in size to that of women. That same region then approached the sash wearers and gave of the brain was twice as large in heterosexual them a portion of their consecrated hosts. “It is a scandal that the body of Christ would men. The second piece of evidence comes from a be denied to a baptized Catholic who approached the altar simply because of what he team led by Charles J. Wysocki at the nonprofit Monell Chemical Senses Center near Philadel or she was wearing. 1 am still shocked and in dis belief that the priest would deny these people,” phia. It was released early and will be published said Quinn. “The Eucharist should not be used in the September issue of Psychological Science. A different set of members from four popula as a political tool, and that is exactly what Car tion groups were recruited and told simply that dinal George has made it.” "There is something seriously wrong when the experiment was to assess their preference for people wearing a sash signifying fairness and body odors; there was no mention of gender or equality are denied Communion while sexual orientation. They were asked to take a pedophile-protecting prelates are given honors sniff from the numbered bottles, two at a time in various dictated combinations, and say which of and basilicas in Rome,” Garcia noted, referring to the honors bestowed on Cardinal Bernard the pair they preferred. Law, who protected pedophile priests in the When all of the data were pr<x:essed, gay Boston diocese. “The bishops who have men were the odd ones out. 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