Posted on 06/26/2003 10:16:44 AM PDT by Polycarp
http://www.moodynews.com/news/Articles/01.03.20SCIE.asp
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AGAINST SODOMY
The Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear a case on sodomy, must take a close look at new scientific evidence that shows why anal intercourse kills people.
The Court has agreed to revisit the 1986 ruling that the right to privacy does not protect sexual relations between homosexuals practicing sodomy. The case they are considering is Texas' anti-sodomy law which was used against two Houston men caught having sex during a police raid of one of their apartments following a false report that an armed man was "going crazy."
This case comes at a time when homosexuals are growing in number and political clout. Attorney Ruth Harolow, who is with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City, noted, "that the 2000 Census found near 600,000 households with unmarried, same-sex partners. She apparently assumed that any time two people of the same sex who live in the same apartment are having sex.
The Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston declared that laws, such as the Texas one, "legitimize discrimination, hatred and even violence" against homosexuals. Actually, scientific evidence indicates the laws may be actually protecting homosexuals.
The lining of the vagina is tough, like the skin on our hands, so it can withstand the trauma of intercourse and child bearing. But the lining of the anus is too delicate to withstand any trauma.
Dr Jeffrey Satinover says: "anal intercourse, penile or otherwise, traumatizes the soft tissues of the rectal lining. These tissues... are nowhere near as sturdy as vaginal tissue. As a consequence, the lining of the rectum is almost always traumatized to some degree by any act of anal intercourse. Even in the absence of major trauma, minor or microscopic tears in the rectal lining allow for immediate contamination and the entry of germs into the bloodstream."
"Furthermore, comparable tears in the vagina are not only less frequent because of the relative toughness of the vaginal lining, but the environment of the vagina is vastly cleaner than that of the rectum. Indeed, we are designed with a nearly impenetrable barrier between the bloodstream and the extraordinarily toxic and infectious contents of the bowel. Anal intercourse creates a breach in this barrier for the receptive partner, whether or not the insertive partner is wearing a condom."
In addition to the trauma of intercourse, semen can eat away at the intestinal lining. This allows a person to "infect themselves" as the bacteria from their feces enter the blood stream.
As a result of this, a man is 2,700 times more likely to get an HIV infection from anal intercourse than he is from vaginal intercourse.
Anal intercourse is so dangerous, the United Kingdom Blood Transfusion Service will not accept blood from any man who has ever had sex with another man, even if they were practicing 'safe sex' with a condom.
Regarding safe sex, even condom manufacturers advise against anal intercourse. The condom company, Durex, said in October 2000 : "Anal intercourse is a high-risk activity because of the potential for infection from STDs including HIV transmission. Currently, there are no specific standards for the manufacture of condoms for anal sex. Current medical advice is therefore to avoid anal sex. However, whenever this advice is not followed, the medical profession recommends that stronger condoms should be used although studies have shown that there is still a risk of breakage and slippage."
One study calculated that 32% of condoms broke and 21% slipped during anal intercourse. The researchers pointed out that "condoms manufactured in the United States generally are labeled "for vaginal use only."
Though some use a drug to relax the anal muscle for sodomy, even this fails to prevent some tearing of the tissue and can suppress the immune system. The recipient may learn to relax the anal muscle, but one study found that over a third of those who received anal intercourse reported some degree of anal incontinence or urgency of defecation.
Nineteen hundred years ago, the Bible warned us, "The men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet" (Romans 1:27). Today, science has documented that anal intercourse is against nature and that people do receive in themselves the reward of this error.
For thorough documentation on this subject see:www.christian.org.uk/html-publications/girlsandboys.htm#physical
Sodomy is so basically and obviously unnatural that it's amazing we are even discussing it. One quick look at the human body shows how we were created (or evolved - if you prefer a non-Declaration of Independence term) to have sex. With poop-sex (other than the obvious "two plugs, no outlet" thing), you cannot kiss while doing it; you cannot embrace while doing it; one party must injure the other party to do it (my mom used to work at a motel and she said the sheets were always a disgusting mess after gay men rented a room); genitals are obviously not joined together, etc..
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." -Patrick Henry
Agreed. My first read caused the same reaction as yours.
If you don't like Patrick Henry, try these guys:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." -John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address to the military
"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics." -John Adams
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." -Thomas Jefferson
"We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." -James Madison
"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." -Samuel Adams
"Your supposed right to destroy yourself infringes on my right to pursue happiness, being sad at having to sit by and watch people needlessly suffer and die. When you abrogate the unalienable right to life, doing so abrogates my unalienble right to pursue happiness, being sad at watching people needlessly suffer and die." -The Forecastle
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." -Samuel Adams
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." -William Penn
"[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity." -Daniel Webster
"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain blessings. Much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to, so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass. The Great Governor of the Universe has led us too long and too far to forsake us in the midst of it. We may, now and then, get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path. " -George Washington
"Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history." -- Will and Ariel Durant
You and me, both, sweetie.....
If you think there will ever come a time that you don't have to fund their diseases then I think you are too optimistic. But I'll make you a deal. Pull that off -- end the public funding of all the stuff I mentioned -- and I'll think you make a good point on the privacy issue.
Should those other things be illegal? Actually, they are in many instances. Further, the gov't has sued tabacco companies for billions of dollars to recover health care costs. A smoking individual pays higher insurance rates and taxes for these purposes too. Liquor and its consumption is subject to special laws. Driving cannot be done by all. Visually impared persons are discriminated against, as are many handicapped people. You must have a license and prove you are capable, etc...all for public health and safety reasons. What gives the gov't the right to tell me how fast I can drive? Etc...
Sounds like a wonderful idea, but then, how about all the innocent people who rec'd HIV-contaminated blood?
But I think you're right. America is just about over.
The illegal alien hordes have overrun us, the left has successfully indocrinated and brainwashed at least three generations, they've taken over the halls of academia, and they've opened the gates to the barbarians as a result.
The country is done. I really believe that. I really do believe this great nation is wounded beyond any hope of repair or regeneration.
And it saddens me in ways you cannot imagine to say something like that.
But I really feel as if the gates have been opened, and the barbarian hordes have simply overrun us.
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