[PLUG-TALK] HIV/AIDS

Sun Jan 4 02:27:32 UTC 2009

The following is a good read and the conscientious person should
delve into it deeper to see if in fact homosexual sex is as dangerous
or more dangerous than smoking.  As far as the yeast infections
comment, yeast infections unlike anal cancer are not life threatening.

Now, I take Jason's it takes an average of 10 times contacting 
HIV to be infected with it to be true.  Well, that is 1 in 10 
times.  It may be the first time, the last time, the fifth time,
etcetera.  The more blood to blood contact there is, the higher
the likelihood that HIV will be transmitted, or is someone going
to tell me that I'm wrong?  How do two men have sex?  Anal sex
probably.  Well, anal sex breaks tiny blood vessels in the anus.
So for homosexual men engaging in homosexual sex, it is logical
to hypothesize that they don't need to be in contact with HIV
ten times to contract it.

As far as the maybe I should listen to former Catholics instead
comment that Jason made, they aren't necessarily gay nor do they
necessarily understand the downsides of living a homosexual 
lifestyle.  He can talk to anyone he wants to talk to of course.

As far as bashing my homosexuality is unnatural argument.  I never
argued that air travel because it is unnatural should be abandoned
nor did I argue that we shouldn't use cars because that is unnatural.
I would say that traveling is perfectly natural and part of human
nature.

In the following that I suggested reading even though I might not 
100% agree with it, all of the claims come from somewhere and the
scientific method can be applied to evaluate them.  Burying your
head in the sand because you are politically correct is a mistake
in the face of a public health epidemic.

What you should read follows:
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http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/ha031901.asp

Compassionate Society Should Discourage Deadly Homosexual Behavior

by Gary Glenn
State Director, AFA of Michigan 
March 19, 2001 

Society imposes significant social and legal restrictions on -- and
spends millions of dollars urging Americans, particularly children, to
avoid -- life-threatening behavioral choices such as smoking, drug
abuse, and drunk driving.

This rational, logical, common sense commitment to protecting our
children from life-threatening activity is irrationally discarded,
however, concerning the deadly practice of homosexual behavior. With the
ready compliance of negligently pandering, enabling politicians and
bureaucrats -- particularly in public schools -- homosexual activists
are dead set on teaching our children "it's O.K. to be gay."

The N.E. Journal of Medicine reports that men who smoke risk cutting 7.3
years off their lives.

Oxford University's International Journal of Epidemiology reports: "Life
expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years
less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality continues, we
estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 will
not reach their 65th birthday."

Judging by the number of years at risk, homosexual activity is up to
three times deadlier than smoking.

Society irrationally nonetheless condemns and restricts the lesser
threat, while contemplating laws to protect and force acceptance of the
greater. The Boy Scouts are viciously attacked for daring to stand firm
to protect youngsters from exposure to such deadly behavior. Paid
homosexual activists are invited into our classrooms -- as young as
first grade, one Detroit activist boasts - to offer our kids an early
death by teaching them "How to be Gay."

Between the Lines, Michigan's statewide "gay" newspaper, reports the
risk of anal cancer "soars" by nearly 4,000% for men who have sex with
men. "The rate doubles again for those who are HIV positive." Between
the Lines admits there's no such thing as "safe sex" to prevent this
"soaring" cancer risk: "A condom offers only limited protection."

The Medical Institute of Sexual Health reports [Executive Summary,
"Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality," 1999]:

- "Homosexual men are at significantly increased risk of HIV/AIDS,
hepatitis, anal cancer, gonorrhea and gastrointestinal infections as a
result of their sexual practices."
- "Women who have sex with women are at significantly increased risk of
bacterial vaginosis, breast cancer and ovarian cancer than are
heterosexual women."
- "Domestic violence is...probably more common among homosexuals than
among heterosexuals."
- "Significantly higher percentages of homosexual men and women abuse
drugs, alcohol and tobacco than do heterosexuals."

The Advocate, a "national gay and lesbian newsmagazine,"concurs that
"lesbians are at higher risk of breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer."

As with smoking, homosexual behavior's "second hand" effects threaten
public health.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention report that men who engage
in homosexual behavior are 860% more likely to contract a sexually
transmitted disease (STD), increasing up to 500% their risk of
contracting HIV/AIDS. Men who have sex with men "have large numbers of
anonymous partners, which can result in rapid, extensive transmission of
STDs," the CDC warns. "Control of STDs is a central component of HIV
infection prevention in the United States; resurgence of bacterial STD
threatens national HIV infection prevention efforts."

Gay Health reports that men who have sex with men are 320% more likely
than heterosexuals to have unprotected sex without telling their
partners they're HIV-positive.

Reuters reported that while "'gay men of all ages remain at an alarming
risk,' a CDC spokesman told a news conference," another CDC study
"confirms that young bisexual men are a 'bridge' for HIV transmission to
women."

Thus, individuals who choose to engage in homosexual behavior threaten
not only their own lives, but the lives of the general population.

If we truly care about persons ensnared in the homosexual lifestyle, and
others their high-risk behavior threatens, should society play the role
of "enabler" and tell them it's only "natural" to continue their
self-destructive activity?

Certainly not. True compassion for our fellow man requires us instead to
discourage such life-threatening choices, to firmly stand and defend our
society, our families and children from political activists aggressively
demanding we normalize, legitimize, promote, and protect homosexual
behavior, despite its deadly threat to personal and public health.

That's how we'd react to anyone we care about, who's convinced
themselves -- or tells our kids -- that it's O.K. to smoke, do drugs,
drive drunk, or play Russian Roulette.  

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 [NOTE:  Below are websites with further information on health risks
with homosexual behavior.   There may be some duplication.   E. Fox]

1.   FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 

 http://www.frc.org/file.cfm?f=SEARCH_RESULTS&text_search=HOMOSEXUALITY&x=12&y=11

2.   The Health Risks of Gay Sex by John R. Diggs Jr., M.D. 

http://corporateresourcecouncil.org/white_papers/Health_Risks.pdf  

3. "MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HOMOSEXUALS DO" by Paul Cameron, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Family Research Institute of Colorado Springs, USA 

http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_EduPamphlet3.html 

4.  HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR FUELS AIDS & STD EPIDEMIC

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/Diseases.pdf

5.    CRAFTING "GAY" CHILDREN  

   http://www.rsvpamerica.org/crafting%20august%202001.htm

6.    SODOMY : A PUBLIC HEALTH RISK

 http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/22Sx/PnSx/HSx/StatsSdmy.htm

7.   HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR

 HealthHosx1.htm