David R. Usher is co-author of this article along with Cynthia L. Davis
“Marriage Equality” is perhaps the most convoluted canard of our time. Underneath the hood of the homosexual revolution churn the most serious avoidable health problems of our time.
The majority of our most dangerous sexual diseases emanate from the homosexual revolution and are transmitted to wives, infants, children, and men by LBGTQ individuals who are most often bisexual.
Bisexuals are the majority in the LBGTQ movement. Approximately 1.8% to 4% of Americans are bisexual. This broad gateway infects unsuspecting heterosexual Americans with serious or fatal diseases. The impact to heterosexual women is serious. 70% of HIV infections in women are attributed to heterosexual contact.
The impact of homosexuality on the rest of us can no longer be ignored:
- Among female adults and adolescents that were diagnosed with HIV infection in 2009, 84.9% were infected through heterosexual contact.
- 25% of new HIV infections are women who are often straight.
- HIV is the #14 cause of infant mortality (Table B). This is most often caused by women who have a bisexual husband or boyfriend.
- There are about 1.2 million individuals infected with HIV in the United States. About 20% of them do not know they are infected and are spreading the disease invisibly.
- Children raised by homosexual parents are dramatically more likely than peers raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from a host of social problems.
- The total death impact of promiscuity is difficult to quantify because so many other opportunistic fatal diseases are the final cause of death.
- High rates of psychiatric disorders are well-known even in the Netherlands, where homosexuality is widely accepted. Substance abuse is also common in the LGBTQ community. The rest of American often bears the costs of treatment for STD’s and endless psychological treatment for confused individuals.
Homosexuality has been “legitimized” in our schools. It is considered an act of hate to question or oppose sexual perversion. Why do we teach homosexuality in our schools while strongly encouraging our children not to use drugs or smoke? Fatality data indicates that promiscuity and homosexuality are at least as dangerous to health and life as smoking or drugs.
Kids with AIDS
In New York City, very high rates of risky homosexual practices are reported. Nearly 10% of sexually-active New York City high school students say they had at least one same-sex partner. Children do what they are taught. “Gay, lesbian, and bisexual students are not born that way. The most recent, extensive, and scientifically sound research finds that the primary factor in the development of homosexuality is environmental not genetic”.
Smoking is banned everywhere in America because of the risks imposed to others. We are tough on drinking and driving for the same reasons. We can no longer give homosexuality a free pass because the grave healthcare burden it imposes on the rest of us. The taxpayers cannot “leave the room” to avoid being harmed.
Incubating a national health problem:
Gay men have between 4 and 100 times more sex partners than heterosexual men. Lesbians are 4.5 times more likely to have over 50 sex partners in their lifetime compared with heterosexual women. 75-90 percent of women who have sex with women have also had sex with men. Only 10% of homosexual relationships are monogamous after five years.
- The incidence of HIV in men who have sex with men is 44 times that of heterosexual men, and 40 times greater than women
- Homosexual men are 46 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract syphilis.
- HIV is the #10 cause of death for black males and #24 for white males (Table D).
- While there are far fewer lesbians than gays, lesbians are 4.5 times more likely to have had over 50 sex partners than heterosexual women.
- 63 percent of syphilis cases were among men who have sex with men (cite).
- The majority of lesbians commonly have sex with men.
Gay advocacy overwhelms science
Ryan Sorba’s authoritative history of gay advocacy documents how the homosexual revolution overwhelmed the scientific community in the 1970’s and 1980’s applied aggressive activism and now-debunked “studies” to achieve the impossible: diagnoses of homosexual disorders are no longer objective. A psychiatric disorder exists only if the individual subjectively discovers it. The majority of therapy focuses on solipsistic “affirmative therapy” (helping homosexuals feel comfortable with their behavior) instead of steering them to effective “change therapy” that could save their lives and relieve their mental anxieties.
Since psychiatric science does not recognize homosexuality as a diagnosable disorder, the policy responses of the CDC, psychological and psychiatric professions, and schools are limited to carefully encouraging condom use and spending vast sums of taxpayer monies taking care of ill and dying individuals.
Gay advocates now controlling the American Psychiatric Association created false science far more dangerous than Al Gore’s debunked global warming theories. Gore’s confabulations did not kill anyone.
Gay advocates blame the consequences of their behavior on us, demanding that science and taxpayers take care of them. Elton John blames “stigma” for causing the AIDS crisis, asserting that “love can fix the problem”. If gay leaders truly loved their followers, would be addressing rampant promiscuity to save the lives of their followers instead of blaming everyone else.
Gay politics has become another big-government enterprise. It forces us to accept it, urges more youth to do it, and creates expensive problems requiring massive funding to clean up the mess.
Kinsey acolytes have perverted politics and science in ways not seen since the dark ages. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would “protect all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or ‘paraphilias’”. California is considering legislation guaranteeing that many children will die: S.B. 1172 will bar counselors from helping children recover from unwanted same-sex attractions.
Gay Marriage will not reduce homosexual promiscuity
Gay marriage is an absurd proposition. Dan Savage, a leader of the gay movement, promotes promiscuity. The homosexual revolution is founded on sexual promiscuity.
In states that have gay marriage, few men marry. Between 2004 and 2008, only 37% of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts involved men.
There is no evidence that “coupling” or gay marriage has notable impact on gay promiscuity.
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Marriage becomes a promiscuous government village
Gay marriage is destined to be a three-way marriage between two women and big government. When Suzie marries Joanie, the kids will most often be born of serial extramarital encounters (where men are unlikely to know that birth control is not being used).
Gay marriage establishes a superior four-income, two-mother, big government family. Marriage-as-village policy is a lucrative tentacular arrangement: women keep their own incomes, depending on government to force several men to provide multiple tax-free “child support” incomes.
The tremendous advantages of gay marriage for women are reflected in marriage data. Gay marriage is nearly twice as popular with women in Massachusetts, where 63% of gay marriages involved women between 2004 and 2008.
Gay politics overruns libertarianism and conservatism
Gay conservatism is an impossible concept. The gay movement will settle for nothing less than hard-core multiculturalist government.
GoProud pretends that gay marriage is a state issue while actively supporting it at the federal level. Gay marriage is very much a federal issue because DOMA exists. An onslaught of litigation intended to demolish DOMA is raining down on the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawsuits of every possible stripe are headed to the Supreme Court to force homosexuality on America.
The Republican Party is allowed Homocon 2012 to be held at its convention and allowed leftists to participate in writing its 2012 platform – a move that may suppress or alienate a large segment of the conservative and Tea Party vote.
Glenn Beck now supports gay marriage. He is apparently unaware of the grave damage gay marriage will do to the rest of America.
Dear Glenn: Multicultural marriage divides America into two absolute classes depending solely on reproductive ability — with women entitled and men plantation bondservants to big government. God-given natural social, parental and economic rights will be fully usurped by government. Health care costs will soar due to illness and social problem grown due to the numbers of sexually-confused children and adults. Your pocket will be picked and your children indoctrinated whether you like it or not.
We must rescind irresponsible homosexual public policy from the lawbooks across-the-board and discourage homosexual behavior. We must not allow pansexuals to take over the conservative movement like they did the American Psychiatric Association. Their invasion is as dangerous to our socioeconomic fabric as the Occupy movement is to free enterprise.
America is burning down because of the demise of heterosexual marriage. Marriage-absence is the greatest socioeconomic problem we face. Our focus must be on restoring heterosexual marriage as the social norm.
Certainly, budget cuts are necessary. We must also learn from the political failure of “austerity” in France. If we do not change what the “Federal Sausage Machine” makes, it will continue generating mass social disaster. There will be no funding to clean it up, and angry voters will again swing to the hard left as they did in 2008.
Protecting Marriage Month:
The debate over gay marriage never should have left the starting gate. It has always been an illegitimate conversation. The hotbed of dangerous sexually-transmitted diseases transmitted from the homosexual population to the rest of America is the problem that must be addressed.
Where we do not provide special protections or affirmations for drug users, smokers, or criminals with behavioral problems, entertaining gay marriage, civil unions, and local ordinances giving homosexuals special rights is out of the question.
“Protecting Marriage Month” is a viral leafleting campaign initiated by the Center for Marriage Policy that every American can use to help others understand what is at stake. Businesses, politicians, and city councils should care about health and safety of women and children. We encourage everyone who backed Chick-Fil-A to join with us once again by downloading and actively distributing the Protecting Marriage Month leaflet during the month of September.
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David R. Usher is President of the Center for Marriage Policy.
Cynthia L. Davis is Executive Director of the Center for Marriage Policy.
Media Contacts:
Cynthia Davis: cynthia.davis@marriagepolicy.org, 636 240-6369
David R. Usher: david.usher@marriagepolicy.org
Scott Lively: http://defendthefamily.com, sdllaw@gmail.com, 413 250-0984
Ryan Sorba: ryanjsorba@gmail.com
You seem confused. On one hand you say this is the “most serious avoidable health problems of our time.” recognizing it is avoidable through action. And then you go on to blame gay and bisexuals for the problem.
Hint: Heterosexual people can avoid getting the disease the same way homosexuals can. Use protection, be responsible for your own actions, and stop blaming others.
You seem to be laboring in service to an error, Lysander. AIDS is a behaviorally driven sexual disease (to focus on only one) and homosexual acts are the driver. It is the acts that are responsible for the epidemic… for the twenty five million dead. But if you begin with the assumption that “gay” is a sort of new gender, it would seem unfair to blame a whole class of people for a social problem based only on a behavior in which they conceivably may not have partaken. But there is no such gender. There is only the behavior and its “justifications.” If you assume that the behavior is a natural part of the genetic makeup of some new gender, then its members can’t really be held accountable for the behavior. But, of course, there is no such genetic makeup, no involuntary behavior.
If you are given to the prejudice that opposition to homosexuality is only the result of people who don’t like those who “are different from” themselves, you are very mistaken, but that assumption is a matter of endlessly repeated, deeply-ingrained Orwellian-like, New-speak, social programming by the government schools and statist media. To the contrary, many of the greatest opponents of “Gay” propaganda are, in fact former victims of the lifestyle who have, through great tribulation, extracted themselves from its behavioral tentacles. They reach out to save those who are very much like themselves.
Homosexuality is a pitfall. Those who attempt to warn others of its dangers should not be accused of hate. Those who labor to remove the guardrails (principally the human conscience) around the pitfall should be condemned. But the promotion of homosexuality is, now, a beneficiary of socialist politics and big government, though it certainly deserves it (at the least) no more than any other behavior or religion, that is to say, not at all.
Surely we can find common cause there?
You are mistaken on so many counts…
1. I did not assume that gay is a gender.
2. It is unfair to blame an entire group of people, but I am not the one doing that. In fact I am attacking the author for doing so.
3. It is acts that are responsible for the epidemic, but to limit it to just homosexual acts is looking at only a portion of the problem.
4. I am not assuming any act is nature or nuture. It is irrelevant to the discussion. My point is that any individual needs to take responsibility for their sexual activity regardless of what sex they are and what sex their partner is.
5. Saying Homesexuality is a pitfall and dangerous is not something we should find a common cause for. Nor is anyone here stating that we are for or against big government promotion of homosexuality. In fact the entire article has nothing to do with politics and is really not fitting of this site at all.
Lysander,
1. I did not assume that you assumed. I proffered some reasoning, without which I think your criticisms are baseless. You seem morally offended that the authors are morally offended.
2. It is not unfair to blame a group of people for the actions that define the group. Thieves are responsible for stealing; roofers for roofing, homosexuals for engaging in activity that endangers others our government is now fostering.
3. You say, “to limit it to just homosexual acts is looking at only a portion of the problem,” but the authors do not do that, specifically mentioning minor contributors, the multiple, natural children of “lesbian” couples, for instance. And they are minor contributors. Sodomy is unhealthy by nature because it is not a practice the equipment was designed for, like eating feces. Promiscuous heterosexual intercourse is not immune, but nothing close.
4 and 5. You say you are not assuming any act is “nature or nurture.” One can hardly call the chain of events that leads one into destructive behavior “nurture.” But, and if you find no defense for the behavior why should we not call destructive acts dangerous? Is it wrong to call smoking dangerous? Do you oppose product labeling? And if it is not “nature” how can it not be regarded as addictive? Breaking away from it is extremely difficult as are most all acquired sexual practices. And if it is both addictive and destructive, which it is, how is “pitfall” not accurate?
You say “any individual needs to take responsibility for their sexual activity” but you assert that the article should not hold those individuals responsible despite taking part in an activity that is extremely destructive of others. You say, “…the entire article has nothing to do with politics…” and yet it is aimed squarely at the imposition of “same-sex marriage,” by government, and the government-financed initiative to use public schools to remove morality from sex and “normalize” homosexuality, both political movements you certainly must have noticed.
You say, “Saying Homesexuality is a pitfall and dangerous is not something we should find a common cause for.”
Why not?
1. I am not morally offended that the author is morally offended. I am offended that the authors think gay people are responsible for straight people having aids.
2. It is unfair to blame a group for the activities of some of their members. It is also unfair to blame a group for the activities of individuals not in that group. The authors do both.
3. The authors and you both place a large portion if not all the blame on homosexuals for heterosexuals having aids. I can guarantee you that heterosexuals do not get STDs without having sex and will never get it from from two homosexuals having sex. This post is pretending that somehow heterosexual people would basically be free from aids if it were not for gay people. That is inaccurate and offensive.
4 & 5.
Again, I am not saying that unprotected sex is not dangerous or should not be labelled that way. I am however suggesting that you stop distinguishing between heterosexual and homosexual acts. Both if unprotected will transmit aids.
Homosexuality is more than just unprotected sex. To say that it is a pitfall and dangerous is to ignore everything else about the homosexuality including their love for others, and the millions that are homosexual and practice safe sex.
1. “Suggesting that [I] stop distinguishing between heterosexual and homosexual acts,” whether you intend it or not, proffers equivalency. There is none. It is as if you were to say, “Stop distinguishing between drinking a cow’s urine and drinking its milk” There is no comparison between the two as a health risk. Breathing air is not the same as breathing tobacco smoke. There is no comparison between the two as a health risk. One is natural the other is not. Heterosexual acts are the natural function of the organs as milk was made for drinking; sodomy is unsafe and, by nature destructive, like drinking urine. There is no comparison between the two as a health risk. That ostensibly large numbers of people do it is no argument for the equivalency you proffer (whether intended or not) either in terms of health or morality. The life expectancy of homosexual men is significantly lower than heterosexual men.
2. You assert “millions that are homosexual and practice safe sex.” There is no “safe” homosexual sex. There is no 100% effective condom. But more significant is the lack of the possibility of any natural family and the spiritual bonds between spouses, hence, the vast discrepancy between hetero and homo promiscuity rates.
3. As a historic issue there is no question that homosexual people were responsible for the AIDS epidemic just as white people were responsible for American Slavery: 1. it emerged from the gay community, 2. its exponential expansion among the populace is directly linked to gay promiscuity, 3. the much greater rates of transmission is directly linked to the nature of the gay sex act and 4. the political movement that prevented killing it when it could have been stopped by quarantine was the work product of the gay rights community, the same force that pioneered your politically correct viewpoint.
4. You say, “It is unfair to blame a group for the activities of some of their members,” but it is not unfair to blame all the members of the group for the acts of all the members. Moreover it is incumbent on us to prevent the exacerbation of the error by government.
5. You say, “I can guarantee you that heterosexuals do not get STDs without having sex.” Well, gosh, please explain how the children in the photo, above, contracted the disease. And what are the terms of your guarantee? Will you cover medical expenses?
6. You say, “Homosexuality is more than just unprotected sex.” But it is not more than sexual perversion… any more than theft is not more than stealing, kleptomania and socialism notwithstanding.
7. You say, “To say that it is a pitfall and dangerous is to ignore everything else about the homosexuality…” To the contrary, pointing out that it is a pitfall and dangerous only focuses on the most important points. The thieves who use government to steal may actually get some of that money to people who need it, but it does not diminish the stealing. So “to say that redistributive taxation is stealing” is NOT to “ignore everything else about socialism” but simply to focus on the most important point.
8. And, “…[to ignore] their love for others” No, Lysander, I am aware that homosexuals are as capable of love for others as anyone else; thieves, carpenters, congressmen, jaywalkers, Olympic athletes, murderers and Nobel prize winners, to name just a few. THAT is irrelevant.
I recognize now that this conversation is pointless. I hope that one day you recognize you’re better off concerning yourself with your own actions rather than demonizing others.
Have a nice day.
The things I have written, Lysander, are intellectual “actions.” They are each individual acts expressing ideas, as are your statements. We should each take responsibility for such acts, particularly for their truth.
You have chosen to “demonize” my actions, ironically violating your own expressed principle by its expression.
But underlying all that is the assumption that no public moral standard accrues to sexual behavior and you give every indication that this assumption is so ingrained in your thinking that you feel no need to justify it intellectually, apparently convinced no one has a right to disagree on the subject. It is, to you, basic, fundamental. You feel it is reasonable to expect everyone to agree with your assumptions before we even proceed to discussion, like an irrational religious belief drummed into you as a child.
You feel perfectly free to criticize specific people for their words but assert that they are violating some unwritten law when they criticize behaviors you feel are above scrutiny.
And all you offer in defense of these principles is to simply repeat them, each time more emphatically.
Perhaps that is the way you acquired them.
Your ‘actions’ consist of claiming that gay people are responsible for straight people getting aids. It is not true. A straight person can not get aids from two gay people having sex.
As for any moral standards I subscribe to, you are not stating facts, you are making assumptions. You have no idea what moral standards I subscribe to other than a long standing american moral standard (that used to be on our money BTW) that states, ‘mind your business’.
I have not stated that you should not criticize others behaviors. I have maintained that unprotected sex is dangerous and it is a good thing to draw attention to that and warn against it. What I have tried to point out is that unprotected sex is dangerous when it is hetero sex as well as homosexual sex. This has prompted you to get defensive, upset, and say that what others do is unnatural. I disagree and have found that generally when people start talking about others behavior being unnatural and not what god intended, it is of little benefit for me to continue discussing. Which is why I am happy to end my comments now.
You can continue to get upset with others ‘unnatural’ behavior, but I think you will find a more productive path will be to ‘mind your business’ and worry about what you as a heterosexual can do to protect against aids rather than trying to tell others their behavior is unnatural.
Lysander,
You claim that I claim “…that gay people are responsible for straight people getting aids.”
THAT’S not true.
But a straight person practicing “safe sex” can get AIDS from a bisexual person he or she did not know was bisexual and a child can be infected by an epidemic he did nothing to cause.
So what?
So we should quit promoting epidemic-causing behavior. That is the point of the article. It’s too bad you missed it.
You have accused me of “making assumptions. ”
You have accused me of “getting defensive.”
You have accused me of “getting upset,” both about your “safe sex” warnings and homosexual behavior.
NONE of these statements is true. These are false accusations.
And then you tell me to mind my own business. I suppose that means I should adhere to your standards… I guess your business is telling me what to do.
Lysander: Perhaps you should read the article before shooting off your keyboard. Bisexual men have sex with men and then give HIV to their girlfriends/wives. Case closed.
A striaght person can get AIDS from having sex with a PERSON they did not know had AIDS. That you chose to instead word it as ‘bisexual person they did not know was bisexual’ rather than ‘person that has aids’ is what is offensive to me.
As for all my accusations… I will leave it to readers to determine if my assessment is correct. As for minding my own business… I have questioned your beliefs if you think that is equivalent to accusing you of being responsible for the spread of AIDS, I am sorry I have so offended you.
Lysander,
Do you recognize the widely accepted fact that the AIDS epidemic started in the gay community? How do you think it spread to the heterosexual community if not through bisexuality?
I would agree with you that this article bites off a lot more than it can chew but its not because the science doesn’t support it. It would take a whole book to explain the scinece of the AIDS epidemic and how political correctness is killing people.
Promiscuity is spreading the epidemic. And because gay culture is so politicized, we aren’t told the truth about it. If people would stop being so offended and worried about discriminating against gay people, the truth would save their lives. The “naturalness” of it is irrelevant. Homosexual lifestyle is in fact, more dangerous than smoking and if we really cared about these people we’d tell them that and save their lives rather than worry about stigmatizing them.
Stop being offended and learn the facts.
Coulter,
Yes I agree it spread quickly in the gay community more prominently than the heterosexual community. That is a fact and also might be refered to as history. A lot of damage was done because people did focus on this being a ‘gay’ disease. Heterosexual people got it through unprotected sex with infected individuals or sharing needles with infected individuals. To blame gay people for either of these acts is ignoring half the blame. That is the part I take offense with.
I agree people should not be worried about offending gay people to protect lives. I however do not think that telling gay people they are responsible for straight people having aids is saving lives. It is just offending them and is only a partial truth at that. I am more worried that people are focusing on placing blame one one community rather than focusing on one key fact, do not have unprotected sex or share needles and your chances of getting aids are so small you will never have to worry about what gay people are doing.
About 84% of aids victims are homosexual men. An number that has decreased only marginally since the 1980′s. And that’s self-reported, so it could be even higher. (Heterosexuals are not inclined to lie and say they got the disease through gay relations but the reverse is not true.)
The homosexual community is guilty of promoting a culture of debauchery, abuse and disease and shoving it down our throats in the name of tolerance. They tell us to mind their own business while the tax payer pays for their indiscretions.
Yes, people make their own choices and should be responsible for their own actions. But when those actions are promoting and epidemic, infiltrating a culture and claiming those who oppose these ideas are bigots, it becomes a matter of public interest.