You can't miss the irony. You can't help but note the shorter life spans. You can't help but wish these folks didn't have the problems they do. Oh well.
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Posted on 03/12/2003 3:40:47 PM PST by Remedy
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force calls them 'prohibitively expensive'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A leading homosexual activist group has cut domestic partner benefits for its employees' lovers.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which is working to force corporations to adopt such benefits for its homosexual employees, reportedly said that the costs were "prohibitively expensive."
One of the key arguments used by NGLTF and other homosexual pressure groups is that extension of marital benefits to homosexuals will not cost companies much money.
"Based on its own experience, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has been knowingly dishonest in public about the increased cost to employers of extending insurance coverage to individuals whose homosexual activity puts them at dramatically higher risk of domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, life-threatening disease, and premature death," said Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
"In public, homosexual activists arrogantly and deceitfully dismiss concerns by other employers about the costs of so-called 'domestic partner' benefits," Glenn said. "But in private, when faced with the reality that practicing what they preach was threatening their own salaries and lobbying budget, these very same homosexual activists cut same-sex benefits for their own employees."
Glenn said NGLTF officials' "glaring hypocrisy" - revealed March 7 in a lead story by The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper published in Washington, D.C. - will be extremely helpful in his and other pro-family groups' efforts to oppose the adoption of so-called "domestic partner" benefits by private employers and state and local governments.
"NGLTF Director Lorri Jean's admission that same-sex benefits for her own employees were 'prohibitively expensive' is now Exhibit A in the case we'll make to employers concerned about the rising cost of health care," he said.
NGLTF's private position on so-called "domestic partner" benefits was reported by The Blade, as follows:
Lorri Jean's first crisis at the Task Force surfaced several months after she took office (in 2001), sources said, when the NGLTF's unionized staff threatened to go public with a dispute over domestic partner benefits. During contract negotiations, Jean called for dropping a longstanding NGLTF policy of paying 100 percent of the health insurance premium for staff members' domestic partners, saying the benefit was prohibitively expensive. She had no objections to the existing policy of paying 100 percent of the health insurance premiums for employees themselves. But a 100 percent benefit plan for domestic partners could not be sustained, Jean said, at a time when the group had a $500,000 debt, including an outstanding loan of $300,000.
NGLTF's public position on so-called "domestic partner" benefits is published on the NGLTF website, as follows: It Will Cost Too Much.
The most common reason cited by companies who do not implement DP benefits is the perception that to do so would be cost prohibitive. ... [T]hese concerns are baseless. ...If a company cares about its employees and about the values of fairness and nondiscrimination, it should treat all employees equitably, no matter the price tag.
Glenn said it is NGLTF's private rather than its public position on the issue that reflects the economic realities of adding to an employer's "insurance pool" new individuals whose homosexual lifestyle makes them more likely to be disproportionate consumers of healthcare services, thus driving up premium costs for the pool of employees as a whole.
In a "White Paper" on domestic partner costs, The Corporate Resource Council, a nonprofit consulting firm affiliated with the Alliance Defense Fund, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, reports that "executives at many companies can expect that the cost of health care for domestic partners will be higher - and perhaps significantly higher - than for married couples. One bit of evidence comes from a small group plan in California that paid 17.1 percent more last year for same-sex couples than for opposite-sex couples."
"Taking high-risk enrollees and same-sex medical costs into account, some employers can expect 3 to 5 percent higher costs if only 1 or 2 percent of their employees choose domestic partner benefits," the council said.
AFA-Michigan's Glenn cited numerous medical and other studies that document the disproportionate health care consequences associated with homosexual behavior:
Domestic Violence
"It is likely the incidence of domestic violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heterosexual population. As many as 650,000 gay men may be victims of domestic violence each year." (p. 14) The researchers estimate that battery occurs in 50 percent of gay male couples (p. 12). (Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them, by David Island and Patrick Letellier, co-editors of the National Lesbian & Gay Domestic Violence Network newsletter)
"One in five urban gay men is battered by his partner, a new study by Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies shows." (homosexual activist website 365gay.com, January 29, 2003)
Mental Illness
"(P)eople with same-sex sexual behavior are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders." (Journal of the American Medical Association report: Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001, based on the "Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study").
Life-Threatening Disease and Substance Abuse
Compared to heterosexual men, men who engage in homosexual behavior are at increased risk of HIV infection, hepatitis, HPV and all other STDs, anal, prostate and colon cancers, eating disorders, depression and anxiety, and use alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs more often. (Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Web report issued last year)
"Homosexual men are at significantly increased risk of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, anal cancer, gonorrhea and gastrointestinal infections as a result of their sexual practices. ...Women who have sex with women are at significantly increased risk of bacterial vaginosis, breast cancer and ovarian cancer than are heterosexual women." (Executive Summary, "Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality," 1999, by Medical Institute of Sexual Health; contact MISH through its website or call (800)892-9484 to request a copy of the report.)
Premature Death
"[L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th birthday." (Source:International Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University)
Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men
"Among young gay and bisexual men in Vancouver, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has reduced life expectancy by up to 20 years." (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
The preceding article was adapted from a March 8 news release sent out by Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.
CONTACT: Gary Glenn 989-835-7978
(480) 444-0030
For a series of excellent "White Papers" on "domestic partners" policies and other homosexual-related issued, click on CRC's "white papers" page.
Public health records demonstrate that homosexuals, representing 2 percent of America's population, suffer vastly disproportionate percentages of several of America's most serious STDs, with incidences among homosexuals of diseases like gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis A and B, cytomegalovirus, shigellosis, giardiasis, amoebic bowel disease and herpes far exceeding their presence in the general population. These are due to common homosexual practices that include fellatio, anilingus, digital stimulation of the rectum and ingestion of urine and feces.
An exhaustive study in The New England Journal of Medicine, medical literature's only study reporting on homosexuals who kept sexual "diaries," indicated the average homosexual ingests the fecal material of 23 different men each year. The same study indicated the number of annual sexual partners averaged nearly 100. Homosexuals averaged, per year, fellating 106 different men and swallowing 50 of their seminal ejaculations, and 72 penile penetrations of the anus. (Corey, L, and Holmes, K.K., "Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis A in Homosexual Men," New England Journal of Medicine, 1980, vol 302: 435-438; as quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
A study by McKusick, et al., of 655 San Francisco homosexuals reported that only 24 percent of the sample claimed to have been "monogamous" during the past year, and of this 24 percent, 5 percent drank urine, 7 percent engag-ed in sex involving insertion of a fist in their rectums, 33 percent ingested feces, 53 percent swallowed semen and 59 percent received semen in their rectums in the month just previous to the survey ("AIDS and Sexual Behavior Reported by Homosexual Men in San Francisco," American Journal of Public Health, December 1985, 75: 493-496; quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
Lesbians show similar patterns of high venereal disease incidence relative to the general population. They are 19 times more likely to have had syphilis, twice as likely to have had genital warts, four times as likely to have had scabies, seven times more likely to have had infection from vaginal contact, 29 times more likely to have had oral infection from vaginal contact and 12 times more likely to have had an oral infection from penile contact ("Medical Aspects of Homosexuality," Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, 1985, Jaffe and Keewhan, et al.; quoted in "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
AIDS research by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that the typical homosexual interviewed claimed to have had more than 500 different sexual partners in a lifetime. Considered by themselves, the AIDS victims in this study averaged more than 1,100 lifetime sexual partners. Some reported as many as 20,000. Studies reported by A-P. Bell, M.S. Weinberg and S.K. Hammersmith in the book "Sexual Preference" (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981) indicated that only 3 percent of homosexuals had fewer than 10 lifetime sexual partners. Only about 2 percent could be classified as either monogamous or semi-monogamous (from "Homosexuality and Civil Rights," Tony Marco, 1992).
You can't miss the irony. You can't help but note the shorter life spans. You can't help but wish these folks didn't have the problems they do. Oh well.
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Reality, what a concept!
"There is some hope, therefore, that the liberal habit of mind, which thinks of the truth as something outside yourself, something to be discovered and not as something you can make up as you go along , will survive."- George Orwell
Now that the faggots have learned the concept of economic reality, they'll just put a money deposit box on it and have the revenue from the equipment pay for whatever is needed.
Are we ABSOLUTELY sure that this article is not satire? Imagine, maybe, five years ago, some non-deviant, normal person protesting same sex-health care benefits for fairies before the city council and using exactly these same arguments. It would have been Katy-bar-the-door. A republican would have been urged to resign and a dem would have changed the subject. Still can't believe that fairies would ever have spoken/written these words.
No kidding!
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