[megatherium]

Cardinal George Pell, who has refused to give communion to gays and once called homosexuality "a greater health hazard than smoking.

A study in Ontario indicates that a sexually active homosexual male will lose between 8 years and 20 years of his life expectancy. The CDC says the average smoker loses 12 or 13 years of his or her life expectancy; heavy smokers (2 packs/day) lose 20 years.

[presidio9]

The average life expectancy of a gay American man is 42 years. The average life expectancy of all Somalians is 50.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

That would make the average lifespan of a heavy smoking sodomite about 35 years then.

[saradippity]

There is something very wrong with the statistics you are using which seem to equalize the deletorious effects of smoking and sodomy on life span.

Almost all of the data I have seen show that the average homosexual's life span is between 42 and 45 years. Since the average life span of an American male is approximately 78 years,even lopping off 20 years would still mean the male smoker (two packs a day) was living 10 years longer than the homosexual.

Certainly,all available information is somewhat sketchy but I believe that a specific group's agenda is driving the info you presented.

It seems so dishonest to teach children in school that parent's who smoke are going to die very young,making the children fearful while at the same time telling them that two daddies are just fine,nothing to worry about there.