Posted on 06/06/2005 10:50:27 PM PDT by scripter
Dr. Paul Cameron, President of Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank, announced today that a new study on the life span of homosexuals will appear in a 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports (Volume 96: pp. 693-697).
This study provides additional evidence that the practice of homosexuality, with its attendant lifestyle, shortens the life of practitioners by about 20 years.
"Obituaries have indicated that gays seldom reach old age," Cameron said. "Indeed, gay obituaries suggest that engaging in homosexuality costs participants between 15 to 25 years of life, suggesting that homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking or being fat.
"Over 10,000 gay obituaries have been collected from homosexual publications. Are the obituaries listed in the gay press representative of gay deaths in general?" Cameron asks.
A new study that compared them with Centers for Disease Control data indicates they are.
The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major homosexual paper used to track homosexual obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for homosexuals at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th centiles of deaths.
The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65.
"These findings add substantial support to our previous findings," said Cameron, who headed the study. "While no one has all the facts on this issue, the CDC data is about as good as it gets. These data indicate that considerable progress in medically combating HIV is being made – its even affecting deaths from other medical causes. Right now, the median age of death for gays in the obituaries is running near 60 – about tied with the median age of death for lesbians. Of course, the median age of death for adults is about 80 – so the 20 year hit for engaging in homosexuality that we reported 15 years ago continues to hold."
The new study "Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS" can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).
"Why has onyx (since 1999-11-30) suddenly been banned?"
Haha. Good one!
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Gotta ping this one out.
It's true! Homosexuals do die younger solely because of their "deathstyle". But no one has to stay "gay". There are tens of thousands of former homosexuals.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
It is so sad that people are being tricked into this lifestyle.
I wonder if GOD has tears.
I've read that lesbians have higher rates of other STDs as well as alcohol and drug abuse, and they are not a great deal more monogamous than male homosexuals.
He has specifically said that it is NOT a civil right. One of the few things I agree with him on so I remember when he siad it...
If that was all they did, it would be valid.
What does the "freedom too far" book say?
Interesting comment. Does that apply to all sinners or just certain sinners?
Well...that's the sanitized version anyway.
I have actually.
The twins studies are "bogus".
From basically the first well known study Bailey/Pillard 1992 they found a concordance rate of 53% for identical twins with homosexual pathology...given it's innate sampling flaws.
Then there was the much larger Bailey/Martin twin registry study that found a 38% concordance rate for male homosexual pathology and 0% for female.
Then there was the Hershberger,SL (1997): A twin registry that found 0% concordance rate for male homosexual pathology and 48% female.
Then there was...many other twins studies with similar results and guess what, they all contradict each other.
So let's review, concordance rate for male homosexual pathology 0-53% and 0-48% for female homosexual pathology.
If science is valid we know that it's replicable. That means you get the same result every time...2+2 is always 4 unless you are member of the soft-sciences. And apparently your husband, if he endorses the twin studies, is either uninformed or a lackey of the APA towing the "homosexuality is normal" propaganda line.
These "gays" should support the optional choice for Bush SSI plan.
Die 20 years earlier huh - only 20 - geez that is to bad.
To summarily dismiss "most" studies are "bogus" is simply ridiculous and certainly immature, perhaps you're here as a troll rather than to defend your apparent indefensible position. If your husband is really a MD, he should know the few studies I cited, if he doesn't he's a quack or a figment of your imagination.
When would you suggest?
Liberals don't really care about the health consequences of behavior. The thing that matters most to them is being fashionable.
Smoking was once considered to be cool and hip. Watch an old movie and you'll see sophisticated ladies and leading men casually puffing away. But in later years smoking fell out of fashion among the upper class. As fewer and fewer upscale people smoked, smoking was left as mostly a working class vice. Once that happened, the left turned against smoking and eventually began crusading against it. The Republicans were accused of being the tobacco party, even though it was FDR who started subsidizing tobacco and liberals like Al Gore Sr. who kept the tobacco subsidy running for years (back in the era when it was still fashionable to smoke).
Unlike smoking, homosexuality is today a highly fashionable vice. All the "beautiful people" in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Nantucket are "tolerant" of the gay lifestyle. They all take pride in having gay friends, gay relatives, or whatever. Gay is the latest craze. Madonna tried to revive her sagging career not by smoking, but by kissing Britney Spears. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is all the rage, as Red Sox fans found out this past weekend. Gay is highly fashionable among the elite segment. The fact that middle and working class folks, particularly Christians, find homosexuality revolting makes it all the more in vogue among the media and academic elite.
It doesn't make a bit of difference to elite liberals that homosexual acts are potentially deadlier than smoking. Smoking is gauche and gay is chic. So gay gets peddled to kids in our public schools even as we lecture those same kids against smoking.
I would suggest that they stop doing each other in the butt what would you suggest
Surely you're not referring to the second-hand smoke myth? That's nothing but socialist propaganda. Firsthand smoke is what smokers should be concerned with.
Private businesses of all types have the right (whether it is honored or not) to determine their own policies with respect to tobacco use.
If any individual doesn't want to work for or patronize an establishment because of its smoking policies, he or she has every right to take their business or their labor elsewhere.
It's this same mamby-pamby collectivist mentality which fuels gun control, the drug war, anti-smoking zealots, etc.
I have never smoked tobacco and think it's worthless, but I firmly support the rights of smokers to light up without big brother telling them where they can and cannot do it.
Arbitrary Law is never the proper role of Minimal Government, and anti-smoking fascists are using blatant propaganda to foment their Authoritarianism on individuals and private business.
Whether the tobacco industry itself is sleazy and corrupt is a separate issue. It appears to be corrupt to a significant degree, given the extra poisonous crap that they add to cigarettes. Maybe there's something legally actionable there.
For instance, here in Florida, Jeb Bush used a settlement with Big Tobacco to fully fund universal health care for chilfren in the state.
Does anyone know where I can get some tobacco seeds?
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