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Government: STD rates among homosexuals ‘alarming,’ ‘troubling’
Lifesite ^ | 11/23/15 | FR Mark Hodges

Posted on 11/23/2015 5:13:05 AM PST by markomalley

The recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows an "alarming" rate of STDs among homosexuals.

The government report admits, "While anyone can become infected with an STD, young people and gay and bisexual men are at greatest risk." 

In fact, syphilis infections among homosexual men have seen such a massive increase that the government report calls the gay syphilis statistics "troubling."

"Men account for more than 90 percent of all primary and secondary syphilis cases," the report states. "Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for 83 percent of male cases where the sex of the sex partner is known."

The official government report explains that it uses the acronym MSM, "men who have sex with men," because that phrase "indicates the behaviors that transmit infection."

"It's time for policymakers and pundits to acknowledge and deal with the elephant in the room: engaging in homosexual behavior can be very dangerous to one's health," Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), told LifeSiteNews.

The CDC says fully half of MSM who have syphilis are also infected with HIV. If not treated, syphilis causes visual impairment and stroke and increases the chance of catching or transmitting HIV. 

"If such overwhelming evidence pointed to any aberrant behavior other than homosexuality as so extremely high-risk, there would be a full-scale government-corporate mobilization urging people not to practice that behavior – or even leveling sanctions against it," LaBarbera pointed out. "Yet homosexualism is celebrated, and promoted – even to young children.

"How tragic and ironic that politically correct politicians and cultural elites are aggressively promoting LGBT agendas, when it is the very living out of those immoral lifestyles that is linked to disease," LaBarbera concluded.

Syphilis rates are concentrated primarily in the gay community, with homosexual men constituting nearly 83 percent of the syphilis cases reported in 2014.

"The fact that 83% of new male syphilis cases are found in the tiny segment of the population (probably less than 4% of all males), who are men who have sex with men, should be setting off major alarm bells," Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies for the Family Research Council, told LifeSiteNews.

"High rates of STDs among men who have sex with men are not a surprise, given the fact that many of them have large numbers of sex partners and engage in the particularly dangerous act of anal intercourse," Sprigg said. 

"Unfortunately, the mainstream media appears to be ignoring this finding, because they cannot figure out a way to spin it without reflecting negatively on homosexual conduct itself," Sprigg commented.

Sprigg noted, "The sudden jump in syphilis rates in the last few years, however, demands an explanation. Mark Joseph Stern of Slate may have offered one with the theory that the effectiveness and increased use of PrEP medications for HIV may be having the unintended consequence of reducing condom use in this population, thus increasing their vulnerability to other STDs such as syphilis."

"PrEP," or "pre-exposure prophylaxis," refers to the use before sex of antibiotics and other medications that make the transmission of HIV less likely.

Sprigg concluded, "The latest data only reinforce what pro-family groups have been saying for decades – the only 'safe sex' is sex that is saved for a monogamous, sexually exclusive lifelong marriage."

The government explains the high rate of STDs among homosexuals by attributing it to "individual risk factors," including "higher numbers of lifetime sex partners" and "higher prevalence of STDs."

The government report additionally attributes high STD rates among homosexuals to "homophobia and stigma."


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The government report additionally attributes high STD rates among homosexuals to "homophobia and stigma."

So in other words, to make sodomite sex safe, we need to encourage sodomy.

Do these people (the CDC) understand how stupid they sound?

1 posted on 11/23/2015 5:13:05 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

They don’t “know” anything. They simply ‘feel’.

Much like a child.


2 posted on 11/23/2015 5:14:23 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it and survive the liberal menace)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Much like a liberal — especially female liberals.


3 posted on 11/23/2015 5:15:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: markomalley

Yes. In the government’s mind a homosexual with anxiety about homophobia is automatically COMPELLED to perform unnatural sex acts without protection. It’s simple. The excuse for any bad outcome is always hatred of some form by the easiest group to condemn that won’t fight back.


4 posted on 11/23/2015 5:15:45 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: markomalley

A politically correct “government report.” LOL! This is lunacy.


5 posted on 11/23/2015 5:16:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America can only be destroyed from within.)
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To: markomalley

Why ‘alarming’? Its always been this way.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 5:16:37 AM PST by skeeter
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To: markomalley

Having anal sex with multiple partners spreads disease? Who would have guessed.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 5:18:52 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: markomalley

I thought climate change was causing homosexuals to catch STDs. This is getting confusing.


8 posted on 11/23/2015 5:19:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America can only be destroyed from within.)
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To: Gaffer

Yea,poking your unit into an exit only shite pipe proves my tagline.


9 posted on 11/23/2015 5:19:49 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: markomalley

When they place their “probe” in the orifice of another person, which was intended as the evacuation point of all of the body’s waste and toxins, what should they expect, rainbows and unicorns?


10 posted on 11/23/2015 5:20:41 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: markomalley

These people are unclean.


11 posted on 11/23/2015 5:20:50 AM PST by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: markomalley

Men who have sex with men (MSM)...

And here I thought it meant main stream media. I guess it’s the same in the end.


12 posted on 11/23/2015 5:21:16 AM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: FlingWingFlyer

As we have fewer and fewer antibiotic this sort this type of behavior will become self eliminating.

That is perhaps more of a Spock or Tuvok statement than the left wants to hear.


13 posted on 11/23/2015 5:22:34 AM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: FrankR

Of course they do and we are told to believe its normal.


14 posted on 11/23/2015 5:28:12 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: markomalley

When one sticks his reproductive organ in a bucket of sh*t,and then has it licked clean by his partner, what other outcome can reasonably be expected?


15 posted on 11/23/2015 5:31:48 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: markomalley
The human body was not designed for sodomy and therefore a greater risk of STD is unavoidable.

All the media propaganda, educational indoctrination, and political/judicial “empowerment” cannot change that.

16 posted on 11/23/2015 5:32:13 AM PST by drpix
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"Men account for more than 90 percent of all primary and secondary syphilis cases,"

It's just God taking the trash out...

17 posted on 11/23/2015 5:32:21 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Fai Mao
As we have fewer and fewer antibiotic this sort this type of behavior will become self eliminating.

Unfortunately, your Obamacare dollar will be preferentially spent on those infected through their unnatural acts with multiple partners, but granny won't get that shiny new stent because the funds won't be there...

18 posted on 11/23/2015 5:33:09 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: markomalley

This has always been true, and it always will be true. The combination of extreme promiscuity, torn tissues, and cross contamination makes this inevitable. I knew a lovely woman who was killed because her husband had such side pursuits as an exciting little secret. She got his bug and died. A beautiful woman. An unknowing beard.


19 posted on 11/23/2015 5:35:33 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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The government report additionally attributes high STD rates among homosexuals to "homophobia and stigma."

This is about the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Doesn't the CDC realize STD's are spread though sex?

I swear the liberals have doubled down on insanity and stupidity. Libs were always somewhat crazy but they have gone full psycho. Never go full psycho.
20 posted on 11/23/2015 5:36:55 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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