Biology vs. Morality (or, Nature vs. Nuture)

If you have access to the New York Times, you should check out today's cover article "For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation." (Or, if you have access to Cell, you should send me a PDF of the academic article.)

To sum, some Austrian scientists recently discovered that if they put the male version of ONE sex-related gene in a fly that is in all other ways female, the genetically-altered female behaves sexually like a male. She approaches female flies and performs MALE mating rituals. If males are given the female version of this gene, they become sexually passive and seak other males.

This really turns things on their heads, eh? Watch out socially-concervative right-wing uber-Christians! Scientific evidence is coming your way!!!