[expatpat]

Someone should suggest homosexuals should be taxed, to pay for the increased cost of health-care due to dangerous life-style choices. (The guy who went over Niagara Falls the other day is being clobbered for this, isn't he?)

[Steve_Seattle]

In Seattle we recently defeated a 10-cent latte tax to fund child care, but maybe we could pass a 10-cent tax on drinks sold in gay bars to help fund AIDS research. There's a much more logical connection between the two.

[cwb]

Exactly...but do you think the government would touch that with a ten-foot pole? If we were honest about homosexuality, our schools wouldn't be teaching what a wonderful lifestyle it is. They would at least be teaching that homosexual males die significantly younger than heterosexual males. This is a healthcare issue and this entire aspect of homosexuality is missing from the debate...where you can't even have a debate without being labeled a homophobe.