[little jeremiah]

Excess food and alcohol intake is responsible for the consumption of billions of dollars of yours and my money that deprive us of funding for the treatment and prevention of other conditions.

[I made a really detailed reply and it went somewhere else - into the ethers.]

The number of people who choose to eat too much or drink too much is so much larger than those who choose to indulge in same sex acts which cause disease that it can't be compared. If the people indulged in same sex acts increased their number to equal, for instance, the number of people abusing alcohol we wouldn't have a civilization any more.

[scripter]

The number of people who choose to eat too much or drink too much is so much larger than those who choose to indulge in same sex acts which cause disease that it can't be compared.

I was more interested in pointing out the context of my statement and I hadn't thought of that angle, thanks.