may 2Q. 2005
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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. They clearly pre
ordered
this should be ashamed, but unfortu
ferred the body odors generated by other gay
nately, experience has shown most of them are
men, with a lesser preference for that of hetero
shameless.”
sexual females. Heterosexuals males and females
—SD JM
and lesbians preferred odors from heterosexual
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