Hazardous to Your Health: The Risks of Homosexuality

BreakPoint ^ | 21 Oct 03 | Chuck Colson

[ChewedGum]

I enjoyed the author's slant on the study results. "This study does not mean that a short life has anything to do with sexual orientation. It just shows that homosexual men live 20 years less than non-homosexual men. For, um, environmental reasons."

The point of the study is not really to look at the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle but to boost aids research funding. "Give us what we want, but please don't look closely at the results of the study.

Gum

[xzins]

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[astounded]

While they're not smoking one dangerous thing, they're certainly smokin' another just as dangerous...

[N. Theknow]

Gay male life expectancy is still low even when you take out AIDS deaths. I remember seeing an item awhile back that said homosexual men are six times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexuals of the same age group.

Blow their brains out?

[scripter]

Thanks for the ping - I'll be sure to add this link to the database. Of course things just wouldn't be the same if I didn't include some additional links on the subject:

• Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention 
• Health and Homosexuality  FR 
• Unsafe healthcare "drives spread of African HIV" 
• African sexual health programmes "misguided" 
• African Women and AIDS 
• Rise of Internet Fuels Fears of AIDS Resurgence 
• Kinsolving: "Will Bishop-elect Robinson and his male lover be tested for HIV-AIDS?"  FR 
• Homosexual AIDS Claims Cause Controversy  FR 
• Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+  FR 
• Acting Up  FR 
• U.S. sees HIV cases rise among gay, bisexual men  FR 
• The American Journal of Public Health Highlights Risks of Homosexual Practices  FR 
• Many HIV positive don't tell 
• Anal Sex Largest Cause of HIV in Africa  FR 
• Gay health statistics 
• Gay Men Meeting Online Contracting Syphilis Faster 
• Syphilis Cases On The Rise In Bay Area  FR 
• New Skin Infection Concerns Doctors, Activists  FR 
• Anal Cancer and YOU 
• Compassionate Society Should Discourage Deadly Homosexual Behavior 
• Anything But Gay: The Deadly and Dangerous Homosexual Lifestyle  FR 
• Desensitizing America, Part I: AIDS Sensitivity Training  FR 
• Homosexuals Demand Legalization of Sex With Strangers...  FR 
• Is This Gay Behavior Sick? 
• Just the Facts: AIDS & the Homosexual Lifestyle! 
• Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men 
• Sharing Disease is Not a Civil Right 
• Sodomy: A Public Health Risk  FR 
• Syphilis in gay men raises AIDS concern 
• Syphilis outbreak among L.A. gay men in 2002 leads to... 
• The Many Myths of AIDS 
• The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: A Nine-Year Retrospective of Fear and (Mostly) Loathing  FR 
• The plague abettors 
• U.S. HIV and AIDS cases reported through December 2000 
• Why Isn't Homosexuality Considered A Disorder On The Basis Of Its Medical Consequences? 
• With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message 
• World AIDS Day: Reflections on the Pandemic  FR 
• California to track HIV cases by code AIDS-delaying drugs mask disease's spread 
• SF doctors report "startling" increase of syphilis 
• Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS 
• Sexual Politics And Scientific Logic: The Issue Of Homosexuality  FR 

[scripter]

Thanks for posting this as there are some related, informative and very helpful links at the end of the original article.

[AppyPappy]

"This study does not mean that a short life has anything to do with sexual orientation. It just shows that homosexual men live 20 years less than non-homosexual men.

Not necessarily true. Sexual preference doesn't appear on death certificates.

[John O]

Not necessarily true. Sexual preference doesn't appear on death certificates.

That's because there is no such thing as sexual preference (as an immutable characteristic) there is only sexual behavior.

Your statement is the proof that 'homosexuality' is a chosen behavior. How can you tell that one corpse was 'gay' while another one wasn't? You can't.

Homosexuality is a mental disease caused by trauma and is 100 percent curable for those who want to be cured. It is not an orientation or a characteristic.

[AppyPappy]

That's nice but it has no bearing on what I said. We cannot say that gays die 20 years younger than straights because we have no idea who is gay when they die.

[John O]

We cannot say that gays die 20 years younger than straights because we have no idea who is gay when they die.

It's highly likely that if the obit was published in a 'gay' paper the deceased practiced homosexuality. While not a foolproof indicator it's certainly a highly reliable one.