Bush’s Choice for Surgeon Gen. Said Homosexual Practices “Unnatural and Unhealthy”

LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/8/07 | Gudrun Schultz

[wagglebee]

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A doctor tapped by President George Bush for the position of Surgeon General has been attacked by homosexual activist groups for saying homosexual activity is unnatural and unhealthy.

Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. wrote a paper in 1991 entitled “The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality” for a United Methodist Church committee that was studying homosexuality. The article was an overview of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing the many diseases and physical damage that frequently accompanies homosexual activity. In the paper Holsinger stated that engaging in homosexuality was physically dangerous as well as unnatural behavior.

Pointing out the naturally complimentary structure of male and female genitalia, Dr. Holsinger said homosexual sex goes against the natural function of the body and can result in serious injury.

“When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur,” Holsinger wrote. “From the perspective of pathology and path physiology, the varied sexual practices of homosexual men have resulted in a diverse and expanded concept of sexually transmitted disease and associated trauma.”

Homosexual activists and their supporters have expressed outrage that a doctor who has warned of the physical dangers associated with homosexual activity would be considered for the position of Surgeon General. Holsinger’s article has been condemned as a scientifically outdated piece of political ideology expressing a “very narrow view” of homosexuality, according to an ABC News report.

Studies continue to emerge, however, showing the grave health risks of engaging in homosexual activity. A report in the February issue of the International Journal of STD & AIDS found that “HIV-positive men who have sex with men are up to 90 times more likely than the general population to develop anal cancer.”

A study released in 2005 in Psychological Reports confirmed earlier findings that homosexual men have on average a 20-year shortened life span.  “[U]nder even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men…are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871,” said the authors of the Canadian research team. The team was supportive of the homosexual lifestyle and conducted the study in order to assist health planners with estimating the impact of HIV infection on homosexual men.

President Bush announced his nomination of Dr. Holsinger on May 24, saying that as “America’s chief health educator, [Dr. Holsinger] will be charged with providing the best scientific information available on how Americans can make smart choices that improve their health and reduce their risk of illness and injury.”

A professor of preventive medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Holsinger holds a doctorate in anatomy and physiology and an M.D. from Duke University.

Read Dr. Holsinger’s paper here:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Holsinger_on_Homosexua...

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:

Study: HIV-positive Practicing Homosexual Men 9000% More Likely to Develop Anal Cancer
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07032205.html

Yet Another Study Confirms Gay Life Expectancy 20 Years Shorter
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060606.html

[wagglebee]

Homosexual activists and their supporters have expressed outrage that a doctor who has warned of the physical dangers associated with homosexual activity would be considered for the position of Surgeon General.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

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[Old Sarge]

With a statement like that, he probably doesn’t really want the job.

[Retired Greyhound]

to the gallows!

Isn’t it obvious that it is unnatural?

[albie]

“Bush’s Choice for Surgeon Gen. Said Homosexual Practices “Unnatural and Unhealthy””

...yeah, and...

[SolidWood]

Uhm sorry my dear socialists and sodomi... I mean liberal, but Dr Holsinger is factually and morally 100% right. Good choice by President Bush btw.

[RJL]

Bush’s Choice for Surgeon Gen. Said Homosexual Practices “Unnatural and Unhealthy”

Did Bush OK this with Teddy Kennedy? I don't think so!

[ArcadeQuarters]

But everyone knows that gay sex is completely healthy!

[BenLurkin]

Is there any question that anal sex is unhealthy?

Does anybody seriously dispute that?

[dfwgator]

Homosexual Practices “Unnatural and Unhealthy”

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[wagglebee]

The left wants to teach it to schoolchildren.

[Dilbert San Diego]

so why is it news that he said that? Homosexual male sex is not conducive to good health. that’s a physical fact though not politically correct.

To be PC we have to say that there is no difference between hetero and homo.

[SolidWood]

I assume it’s less this particular practice, but rather the frequently changing “partners” and the sodomites’ inclination for unprotected intercourse which leads to the numerous diseases and the shortened life.

[i_dont_chat]

One of those examples when “politically correct” is incorrect.

[FreedomPoster]

D) All of the above.

[stm]

Thank you for speaking the truth!

[Burkean]

I don’t see the big deal. Anal sex and oral sex both use the body for things it’s not meant to be used for. It’s unhealthy if it’s between opposite sex couples too. That’s not news, it’s common sense.

[PISANO]

Given the fact that if all sex were practiced between members of the same sex, the end of the Human Race would result [UNNATURAL] and that HOMOSEXUALS have a significantly shorter life span that Heterosexuals [UNHEALTHY]........I’d say his statement is “RIGHT ON”.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dinnermashing is smelly and icky.