If orientation is indeed immutable (as recent evidence suggests), then it would be completely unfair to deny people equal rights because of an inherited characteristic.
"The centerpiece of this decision," he wrote, "is the immutable fact, established by overwhelming evidence, that Hindelang defrauded" Mr. Simon's group by not disclosing his criminal past or his negotiations with federal authorities to forfeit some $50 million in illicit drug proceeds.
Unfortunately, Asian-Americans are marked with immutable biological characteristics that are construed as evidence of their being an alien race rather than citizens.
In the book, Jeffreys calls detransitioners like Russell "survivors," and cites them as evidence that transgenderism isn't immutable and thus doesn't warrant radical medical intervention.
He did not view the 5%% false positive rate threshold as an immutable postulate but rather as a convenient evidence benchmark that could guide scientific decision making [ 30, 31].
Tycho's nova or new star, recorded in 1573, was the first direct evidence that the heavens were not immutable.
The notion of an immutable, sacrosanct urtext — the very thing musicologists sift historical evidence hoping to establish — is entirely alien to him.
There is, of course, a large and growing body of scientific evidence linking homosexuality to a number of immutable, innate biological traits.
Galapagos finch, also called Darwin's finch, distinctive group of birds whose radiation into several ecological niches in the competition-free isolation of the Galapagos Islands and on Cocos Island gave the English naturalist Charles Darwin evidence for his thesis that "species are not immutable".
The life stories of thousands of ex-gays evidences conclusively that sexual orientation is not an immutable characteristic.
