Posted on 04/08/2007 3:07:06 PM PDT by wagglebee
PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Marriage between a man and woman seems to result in longer life for both. Does it work that way for gay marriage?
"No," says Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank.
Researchers Paul and Kirk Cameron reported at the Eastern Psychological Association convention that married gays and lesbians lived about 24 fewer years than their married heterosexual counterparts.
In Denmark, the country with the longest history of gay marriage, for 1990-2002, married heterosexual men died at a median age of 74, while the 561 partnered gays died at an average age of 51.
In Norway, married heterosexual men died at an average age of 77 yr., the 31 gays at 52. The lifespan of same-sex married lesbians was 20+ years shorter than the lifespan of married heterosexual women. In Denmark, married heterosexual women died at an average age of 78 yr. as compared to 56 yr. for the 91 same-sex married lesbians; in Norway, married heterosexual women died at an average age of 81 v. 56 for the 6 same-sex married lesbians.
"These are the ages of death as reported by the census bureaus of Norway and Denmark," said Dr. Paul Cameron. "While the internet is filled with debate about our previous findings -- largely based on obituaries -- these deaths were recorded by governments. The obituaries we assembled over the same time period in the US were similar: an average lifespan of 52 for 710 gays who ostensibly did not die of AIDS, 42 yr. for those 1,476 who supposedly did; and 55 yr. for 143 lesbians. So the findings from Scandinavia are not much different from figures derived from U.S. obituaries."
Paul Cameron, Ph.D. & Kirk Cameron, Ph.D., presented "Federal Distortion Of The Homosexual Footprint." Paul Cameron, a reviewer for the British Medical Journal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the Postgraduate Medical Journal, has published over 40 scientific articles on homosexuality. The EPA is the oldest regional Psychological Association in the United States. At its Philadelphia convention members presented the latest advances in scientific work to colleagues.
The full report can be accessed here.
Obviously one would have to say that if you buy into the idea that homosexuality is genetic, rather than choice, then obviously it’s a genetic flaw causing an early death. Darwinism at work.
I do not doubt that the ‘homosexual lifestyle’ leads to a strongly decreased life expectancy, but this report could have a major flaw- if gay couples have only been getting married since as little as a decade ago, it only makes sense that the median age of death for that group is young- for the most part , the only members of said group dying are those who die young. If you were to take a group of married couples, all of whom were married in 1994 or later, with the majority being married later than that date, and analyzed their median death age to date, you would get a similar result, as the only members of that group to die so far would be those who’ve died young.
Thank you for your post...
If Denmark runs out of queers we can ship them a supply. Rooty can go be the Mayor of Denmark. That would solve several problems.
I love FR for posts like this...
It’s amazing what you can squeeze into a mere 51 years.
>>A lifestyle consisting of exceeding design tolerances will tend to do that.<<
I don’t think it would surprise anybody to find out gay men have shorter lives on average that straight men.
I do wonder how they got this data. Not even hospital records are going to reliably tell sexual orientation. That makes it hard to take a really representative random sample of the population.
I’m sure it’s because of right wing heterosexual white males.
LOL!
not exceeding, not even using the design.
You can use a unicycle as a submarine.
The study was done in Denmark and Norway, which have both had homosexual marriage for over a decade. It is fairly easy to determine if a man dies and his "spouse" is also a man that the deceased is a homosexual.
“Could it have something to do with listening to too much music by Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls?”
Perhaps the carpet munchers are choking to death on furballs like a cat? That is a real possibility./ sarc.
Is this a propaganda article to comvince us to vote for gay marriages? LOL
Ohhh.. another zinger... keep them coming sir.
actuall is is perfectly logical because homsexuals are saying SPECIFICALLY homosexual base marriage is the same as normal marriage. You have to compare the two.
It shows that homosexuals contnue their high risk life style regadless of any legal trappings to simulate normalcy.
Yes... see post 15 for link
Why this is worse than smoking. The government should get involved pronto. Every homosexual should be taxed to cover health care costs. And they should be tattooed on the forehead with a Surgeon Generals warning.
must be the jubilation and weekly anniversaries...
Ya hear that Barbara Wah-wah? You're gonna need a new host for "Da View" in about 6 years!
Rosie O'Donnell: born 1962
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