Acting Up

Baltimore City Paper Online ^ | April 23 - April 29, 2003 | Bret McCabe

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While that 25 percent stat has been vehemently and thoroughly disproved (most contend that the rate due to bug-chasing is much lower), what has thus far been lost in almost all the coverage so far has been that number's greater significance.

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The HIV rates in this country are way up. It's way up in the black community. It's a waiting avalanche that's waiting to come down...

Sad but true. As I see it, the best way to stop the avalanche is to stop the behavior behind the avalanche. The problem is, there are too many folks pretending to be a friend to homosexuals that only tell homosexuals what their itching ears want to hear.

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[Noumenon]

Where HIV is Sexy and Prevention is Passé

Sounds like the definition of a problem that'll solve itself...

[ikka]

Allow insurance companies to remove behavior-caused infection from their health coverage.

Allow hospitals to deny treatment to those with HIV that have no money (right now, if you come through the emergency room door you get served regardless of your ability to pay).

Allow drug companies and the free market to charge whatever they want to - drug prices will change up or down as new remedies are invented or not and as treatment becomes more effective.

The problem will go away.

BTW: this just proves my theory that homosexuals are self-loathing.

[kuma]

It's called narcisism. There is another behavioral disorder. They get attention because they have "the gift". All of these mental illnesses are linked to the break down of the family.

Who is paying $ for it? All the taxpayers and those fiscal conservatives that think having a Gay GOP party is great. Sullivan has "the gift" and less than a month ago someone provided a link on FR for webpages he used to have advertising for barebacking partners.

Nope! No agenda here. Please look the other way.

[scripter]

"...We have to start telling the truth. And that would be the best thing that could come of [the documentary]--that people would start talking again and become aware of the risk."

That's how I see our efforts here on FreeRepublic - getting the truth out about the risks. Unfortunately it appears some of our fellow freepers want to stop us from doing exactly what the documentary is trying to do.

[viaveritasvita]

Thanks and amen to your posts 1 and 7 -- couldn't have said it better myself. The recruitment phase of this destructive and immoral lifestyle (as in all destructive and immoral lifestyles) is always gussied up, always spoken about in doublespeak, and always deceptive.

[kuma]

Some good articles, book reviews and such. One book review talks about "AIDS exceptionalism". Many of the articles comment on the lack of promotion of abstinence and monogamy.

http://search.x21ad.net/narth.zhtml?q=AIDS&ps=10&o=0&m=all&ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.narth.com

[kuma]

At the GMHC, an assistant director of community outreach, Daniel Castellano, admitted that "bug chasing" does exist. But Castellano told Rolling Stone that although he would try to "work with" a counselee who said he wanted to get infected, if that's a decision a man wants to make, he would ultimately respect that decision.

From one of the articles on the site I just gave.

Yes please let us taxpayers ante up for assistant directors in community outreach that will ultimately respect the decision that some gay men just want to get infected.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

HIV is number one as far as health care research money from the government. Gay men wanted it that way. They got it.

Now other diseases such as kidney failure and cardiomyopathy get next to nothing. All the moneys go to HIV.

People with genetic predispositions to diseases are being left out. It really angers me.

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People with genetic predispositions to diseases are being left out. It really angers me.

It rightfully should. The homosexual agenda has greatly tweaked research money priorities.

[thegreatbeast]

"It's not like cigarette smoking, where people look sick and are dying," she continues. "You can drive down a street in West Hollywood and see a billboard that says, 40,000 deaths this year from smoking. But you'd never see a billboard saying anything about deaths from HIV."
Barbrastreisand! Here in Boston the busses and subways are plastered with PSAs from groups like amFAR going on about the number of AIDS cases worldwide and so on. There is a lot more information on HIV/AIDs on these vehicles than on all other health issues combined.
In this article they bemoan the fact that real images of the devastating effects of the disease(s) isn't making it into the public consciousness but I'm sure they'd complain if anyone were to try to post images of abortion.

[tdadams]

HIV is number one as far as health care research money from the government.

Wrong. Cancer is number one in federal funding at $1.8 billion.

And why does AIDS get the disproportionate funding it does? According to a 1997 Kaiser Family Foundation poll of 1200 Americans, 51 percent said they think the federal government spends too little on AIDS and 40 percent consider federal spending too low compared with expenditures on other health problems like cancer and heart disease. Seventy-three percent said the government should help low-income HIV patients pay for new drugs. Source

As a libertarian, I believe the government's level of funding for AIDS or any other disease should be zero. But from a debating standpoint, I can be objective and intellectually honest enough to recognize why AIDS gets the funding it does. Perhaps your personal biases are inhibiting you from considering all the facts in context.

It's discouraging to see people still quoting that spurious Rolling Stone article as if there was any credibility to it. It was debunked before it hits the newsstands. The doctor "quoted" in the article denounced it saying that he did not say a single word attributed to him in the article. The author also admitted the main character - the bug chaser - was a fictional device, or as he called it, an amalgamation of various people he interviewed. The whole article makes Jayson Blair look like a candidate for the truth in journalism award.

But nevermind all that, it's part of the public record now. The slightly inconvenient matter that it's fiction should be no obstacle to using it to great effect in anti-gay diatribes.

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Unfortunately it appears some of our fellow freepers want to stop us from doing exactly what the documentary is trying to do.

Just call in the heavy ordinance from EdReform and Clint N. Suhks, who eventually expunge those targets and sanitize all their posts. Anyone in doubt can ping madg-and ping and ping….

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Texas Phys.Resource Council, Christian Med. & Dental Association, Catholic Med.Association Sodomy is an efficient method of transmitting STDs. And regardless of the reason, same-sex sodomy is far more effective in spreading STDs than opposite-sex sodomy. Multiple studies have estimated that 40 percent or more of men who practice anal sex acquire STDs. In fact, same-sex sodomy has resulted in the transformation of diseases previously transmitted only through fecally contaminated food and water into sexually caused diseases primarily among those who practice same-sex sodomy.

Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS - Dr. Brian J. Kopp, ... 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.

Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do FECAL SEX About 80% of gays (see Table) admit to licking and/or inserting their tongues into the anus of partners and thus ingesting medically significant amounts of feces. Those who eat or wallow in it are probably at even greater risk. In the diary study,5 70% of the gays had engaged in this activity--half regularly over 6 months. Result? --the "annual incidence of hepatitis A in...homosexual men was 22 percent, whereas no heterosexual men acquired hepatitis A." In 1992,26 it was noted that the proportion of London gays engaging in oral/anal sex had not declined since 1984.

Citizens Against Government Waste Since the first federal resources were made available to state and local health agencies for AIDS prevention in 1985, federal funding, which now includes money for research, treatment, and housing, has skyrocketed to $13 billion for fiscal 2003. As a result of the work of highly mobilized lobbying forces, more is spent per patient on AIDS than on any other disease, though it does not even currently rank among the top 15 causes of death in the United States. In one year, 1998, heart disease, the nation's leading cause of death, killed 724,859 Americans only 6.8 percent less than the 774,767 who have contracted AIDS in the last 20 years.² Of those 774,767 total AIDS cases, 462,766 have died. During that same period, 14 million Americans 30 times more have died of heart disease.

SODOMY : Bug Chasers:The men who long to be HIV+

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It was debunked before it hits the newsstands.

• Bug Chasers and the Thought Police
• What Homosexuals Say About Homosexuals - Is This Gay Behavior Sick?
• With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message (repost)
• CBC News: Disclosure - Russian Roulette
• Bug Chasers -- by Daniel Hill

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As a libertarian you will defend SODOMY : A.P.A. Debates Pedophilia, Gender-Identity Disorder, Sexual Sadism

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The slightly inconvenient matter that your posts are fiction should be no obstacle to using it to great effect in your anti-hetero diatribes.

[tdadams]

Do you think posting all the cut-n-pastes that you do lends you any kind of credibility? I for one would love to see a well-reasoned comment of your own, something I have never yet seen from you.

I can't imagine anyone here actually reads, much less appreciates the verbal pornography you post, even if you present it with a specious frankness.