Posted on 05/15/2015 7:57:02 AM PDT by wagglebee
May 14, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - The nation’s largest association for internal medicine doctors this week officially endorsed homosexual “marriage” and blamed marriage protection laws for damaging the physical and mental health of people who identify as LGBT.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) also officially opposed reparative therapy for individuals suffering from unwanted same-sex tendencies, and called for all-inclusive “transgender healthcare services” in its policy paper published May 12 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"It’s based upon our longstanding policy in regard to eliminating healthcare disparities," said Dr. Wayne Riley, president of the ACP and a clinical professor of medicine at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
The policy paper, titled, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Disparities: Executive Summary of a Policy Position Paper From the American College of Physicians,” places the blame for the increased rates of anxiety, suicide, and substance or alcohol abuse that are common among homosexuals squarely on marriage protection statutes and other pro-family laws.
The homosexual movement, aided significantly by the Obama Administration and other left-leaning politicians, have attacked reparative therapy treatment for same-sex attraction. While many who say they have been able to leave the homosexual lifestyle and have even reduced or eliminated unwanted same-sex attraction have spoken positively about the treatment, it has been made illegal in some states, and there is a continued push to ban it in others.
The Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA) were unable to offer detailed comment on the ACP endorsement of homosexual ideology to LifeSiteNews prior to press time.
However, the CMDA expressed concern, and provided LifeSiteNews its policy statement on same-sex “marriage,” which defines marriage as a consensual, exclusive and lifelong commitment between one man and one woman, expressed in a physical union uniquely designed to produce and nurture children.
The CMDA cautions that acceptance of homosexual “marriage” disregards ages of legal and cultural upholding of natural marriage, and also warned marriage redefinition will not end with sanctioning homosexual unions.
Meanwhile, Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), had strong critical words for the ACP's new paper.
"Does ACP really think that the risk of AIDS, hepatitis, syphilis, etc. is much higher in ‘MSMs’ (men having sex with men) because of ‘healthcare disparities,’ or do behavior and biology have anything to do with it?” she asked in an interview with Breitbart News.
“As for same-sex marriage, ACP is ignoring the moral issues (which are a part of holistic health) and the long-term societal and psychological consequences of deliberately depriving children of at least one-half of their family tree,” she added.
Marriage is not the only natural, God-given concept that the ACP seeks to redefine in its paper.
Among its list of recommendations the ACP calls for “gender identity” to be included, independent and fundamentally different from sexual orientation, as part of nondiscrimination or anti-harassment policies, and also for both public and private health benefit plans to include “comprehensive transgender health care services.”
The ACP also wants family to be redefined to “be inclusive of those who maintain an ongoing emotional relationship with a person, regardless of their legal or biological relationship.”
It calls as well for “LGBT health issues” to be incorporated into the curriculum for medical schools, residency programs and continuing medical education programs.
No, the alcohol and substance abuse, suicide and other related issues stem from the fact that it is an immoral and unhealthy choice.
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Absolutely no MSM coverage of the massive LGBT suicide risk and the repeated killing of many others as LGBT’s try and succeed to take their own sinful life.
Health Risks of the Homosexual Lifestyle
The current media portrayal of gay and lesbian relationships is that they are as healthy, stable and loving as heterosexual marriages — or even more so.1 Medical associations are promoting somewhat similar messages.2 Sexual relationships between members of the same sex, however, expose gays, lesbians and bisexuals to extreme risks of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), physical injuries, mental disorders and even a shortened life span. There are five major distinctions between gay and heterosexual relationships, with specific medical consequences. They are:
Levels of Promiscuity read more
Similar extremes of promiscuity have not been documented among lesbians. However, an Australian study found that 93 percent of lesbians reported having had sex with men, and lesbians were 4.5 times more likely than heterosexual women to have had more than 50 lifetime male sex partners. Any degree of sexual promiscuity carries the risk of contracting STDs.
Physical Health read more
Male Homosexual Behavior
Female Homosexual Behavior
Common sexual practices among gay men lead to numerous STDs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population. Lesbians are also at higher risk for STDs. In addition to diseases that may be transmitted during lesbian sex, a study at an Australian STD clinic found that lesbians were three to four times more likely than heterosexual women to have sex with men who were high-risk for HIV.
Mental Health read more
It is well established that there are high rates of psychiatric illnesses, including depression, drug abuse, and suicide attempts, among gays and lesbians. This is true even in the Netherlands, where gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) relationships are far more socially acceptable than in the U.S. Depression and drug abuse are strongly associated with risky sexual practices that lead to serious medical problems.
Life Span read more
The only epidemiological study to date on the life span of gay men concluded that gay and bisexual men lose up to 20 years of life expectancy.
Monogamy read more
Monogamy, meaning long-term sexual fidelity, is rare in GLB relationships, particularly among gay men. One study reported that 66 percent of gay couples reported sex outside the relationship within the first year, and nearly 90 percent if the relationship lasted five years.
http://factsaboutyouth.com/posts/health-risks-of-the-homosexual-lifestyle/
So, the homosexuals have taken control of the ACP as they did the APA back in the 70s-80s?
Job security for the industry.
OK. Then I’m a physician because I want to be.
Our side has permitted the left to gain a complete and total monopoly on the dominant means of communicating with the American people. They use it to affect the culture and present false pictures of what is happening.
The public, misled by this lack of information, then votes along the lines the left favors.
It should have been our goal to destroy this monopoly a long time ago.
Further justifying my distrust of the medical industry.
Taken over by kooks.
“Whatever Happened to Sin” by Steve Taylor
The Christian counselor wrote, quote
“Who is the only humane choice ahead
If you can’t support it
Why don’t you abort it instead?”
You say you pray to the sky
Why? When you’re afraid to take a stand down here
‘Cause while the holy talk reads like a bad ad lib
Silence screams you were robbing the crib
Say it ain’t none of my business, huh?
A woman’s got a right to choose
Now a grave digger, next you pull the trigger what then?
Whatever happened to sin?
I heard the reverend say
“Gay is probably normal in the Good Lord’s sight
What’s to be debated?
Jesus never stated what’s right”
I’m no Theology nut
But the Reverend may be a little confused
For if the Lord don’t care and he chooses to ignore, ah
Tell it to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah
Call it just an alternate lifestyle, huh?
Morality lies within
Consciences are restin’, please repeat the question again
Whatever happened to sin?
When the closets are empty and the clinics are full
When your eyes have been blinded by society’s wool
When the streets erupt in your own backyard
You’ll be on your knees praying for the National Guard
If you don’t care now how the problems get solved
You can shake your head later, that you never got involved
‘Cause the call came a ringing from the throne of gold
But you never got the message, never got the message
‘Cause your mind’s on hold
A politician next door
Swore he’d set the Washington Arena on fire
Thinks he’ll gladiate them
But they’re gonna make him a liar
Well, he’s a good ole boy who was born and raised
In the buckle o’ the Bible Belt
But remember when you step into your voting booth
He’ll never lie, he’ll just embellish the truth
Promises were made to be broken, right?
You’ve gotta play the game to win
When you need supportin’, tell them that you born again
Whatever happened to sin
It’s clearly the goal of the Democrat (aka Communist) Party to destroy America. Heck, they hardly even try to deny it anymore.
They seek to normalize behavior our Bible-believing forefathers thought should be punishable by death. They want to make every American dependent on government handouts and so work very hard to destroy decent jobs and discourage job creators.
Wealth and success are punished and failure and depravity are rewarded. Starvation and death from disease – God’s punishment for sloth and decadence, have been removed as obstacles to those who want to commit grave sins. That’s because 40% is STOLEN from the righteous so that the reprobates can be supported and validated.
It’s time to return this country to Biblical worldview and values that were its founding principles. People won’t like that. It would require a lot of executions for re-criminalized behavior. And we’d have to sit back and let people fail miserably (even die) so that they can serve as an example to others. Some of the worst would still be saved, of course – but only because someone deemed them worthy of voluntary Christian charity. We would, however, be spared having to support whole “communities” built upon a culture of taking handouts others are FORCED to give them.
Follow this path and in a generation or two, the USA might once again receive the blessings of The Almighty.
“Without God, everything is permissible”. Dostoevsky (Sodomites know better than God and Newton and the most brilliant minds in the history of mankind—ha ha)
The so-called physicians throw out Science, Biology and “pretend” that they are god and they can push the unnatural, the bizarre, the irrational utopia of Marx on little children. Yes, you allow perverts to raise your children (TV/Public School curricula) and you will get irrational, (dumb) kids who believe if they are boys, that they are girls). It is called “operant conditioning” which works on all children, if parents don’t unplug their children and supply them with REAL positive role models and real life experiences (not artificial environments/screens).
Same with dogs-—remove them from their Natural environment too early and they are warped forever. Worse for children with their complex brain and psycho-sexual critical periods, which lasts for a DECADE. Destroy Natural/Normal and you warp that children or traumatize the child forever—and get Adam Lanzas who have man/boy porn all over their computer.
These “physicians” are DUMB and are demonic and liars and trying to force (condition/mind control)) children into a Marxian Worldview, (totally irrational where humans are godless objects only) where Slavery is Freedom, all biological connections are severed, and Vice is Virtue and where ALL people are just animals to be herded, culled and killed when and where the State commands.
Parents: take back the minds of your own children and grandchildren and don’t let them rot their minds by the Sodomites’ “entertainment” which will destroy Reason, Logic and create an artificial worldview, and take away from Real Life experiences and human interactions which make them Logical and truly human and create Virtue. Without Virtue, civil society collapses and that is why the Marxists are destroying the minds of children. All they have left to do is WAIT for the older generation to die off and then the children will have NO WAY OUT of the Leviathan.
Have them READ for intellectual development-—not the Shades of Gray rot to normalize pagan, satanic ethics in women-—but the Great Books which include the Bible.
Yep, if they wanted to change things then do what the fairy in chief did and infiltrate.
Big business, media, schools and any other professions which has power and influence.
There is little funding for and consequently there are relatively few studies regarding mental and physical illness in gays.
At 2.3% -- these are truly mice that roar.
Yep, if they wanted to change things then do what the fairy in chief did and infiltrate.
Big business, media, schools and any other professions which has power and influence.
Conservatives should have been raising their kids to get into these positions , but instead the left has done it and now we reap their rewards.
Heaven forbid they keep their traps shut and actually endorse things that have to do with the medical field. I am so freaking sick of this.
It's not the 2.3% who call themselves "gay" who have all the political and social power: it's the majorities of straights who promote and expand the LGBT agenda. By far the most supporters of the gay sex/gender ideology are straight.
How did that happen? Many factors, but basically it's because only a minority of "straight" people support --- in theory or in practice --- natural sex.
Let's face it, natural sex is procreative. At least 80% of straight people --- contraceptors --- have already chosen decisively against it.
It's straight people, overwhelmingly, who changed the bodily significance and consequences of male-female sex and thus the definition of marriage. They are allied with gays who do the same.
Within our lifetime --- and I'm speaking even of the oldest among us --- the only people who won't accept the mainstreaming of gay copulation will be the ones who never accepted the mainstreaming of contraceptive copulation.
This is the Gaystapo trying desperately to silence any and all forms of criticism of their "lifestyle".
You are absolutely right. I would also include the complete monopoly by the left of our educational system K-Phd.
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