In 2003 the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that all of the remaining anti-sodomy laws—which at that point were 14 states, Puerto Rico and the United States military—were unconstitutional; and ever since radical social-conservatives, such as Pat Robertson, the late Rev. Jerry Farwell, and many others have been crying foul.

Setting them aside, the rest of the country managed to survive without tearing the union apart. And that may very well be due to the fact that even in the 14 states were anti-sodomy laws were not yet repealed by the legislature or overturned by the a state, the laws themselves were rarely still enforced by the authorities, and simply remained on the books as some sort of moral indignation of homosexuals.

Seven years later radical social-conservatives still continue the good fight to make the case why America would be better off if it was 1962 all over again, when all states in the union had anti-gay/anti-sodomy laws on the books.

A new study to be released in the journal of Psychological Science conducted by Canadian researchers claims to have evidence to support the “kin selection hypothesis”, one of the many hypothesizes that have attempt to explain why homosexuality continues to exists in humans despite not having any obvious evolutionary benefit, i.e. reproduction. The theory which focuses only on gay men—which is problem number one for many—posits that gay men are “super uncles”: individuals who are more inclined to help and assist their nieces and nephews, and thus make their survival and eventual reproduction more likely than without those with said uncles.

The Montreal Gazette covered the story and wrote that according to the researchers in the study, “[t]he idea is that homosexuals are helping their close relatives reproduce more successfully and at a higher rate by being helpful: babysitting more, tutoring their nieces and nephews in art and music, and helping out financially with things like medical care and education.”

So far most of the research conducted in the West had not found any particular evidence to support the theory. This led Dr. Paul Vasey of the University of Lethbridge, and one of the Canadian researchers, to look elsewhere and see if the results would be same. Looking for a non-Western culture to survey, the researchers went to Samoa and surveyed women and men, and a distinct third gender of men called the fa’afafine, who are according the study are “men who prefer other men as sexual partners and are accepted within the culture as a distinct third gender category”

Call it Ailes Syndrome or whatever, Republicans have a terrible tendency to forget that we live in the age of recording devices, where even the most minor statement can and has come back to haunt them politically with their base. The most recent victim is Utah senator Sen. Orrin Hatch, who on Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said that he was open to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, if the study to be conducted by the military proved conclusively (which it will) that the policy should be repealed. Telling Mitchell that he was simply “did not believe in prejudice of any kind”.

Not 24 hours after the interview The Advocate reports after realizing that reason was not the way to win elections—Republicans ones anyway—Sen. Orrin Hatch issued a statement saying that his words were misinterpret. The senator then declared that like many of his other colleagues in the Republican caucus—and probably within the Democratic caucus as well—that he was also opposed to repealing the law.

To borrow a line from the 2008 campaign, Senator Hatch “was for it, before he was against.”