Divorce Rates Lower in States with Same-Sex Marriage

Of course, you equate gay marriage with sex. Part of the reason that there is more promiscuity in the gay community is that there is no associated consequence of pregnancy as a deterrent to unsafe sex with multiple partners. Obviously, though, there are significant risks for infection. Yes, there are risk factors involved with sexual intercourse. Let's just look at the skyrocketing rates of STD transmission among heterosexuals and the disturbing connection in young heterosexual women developing HPV and cervical cancer. One of the ways we can combat promiscuity is by encouraging stable relationships and safe sexual practices, something that the stigmatized gay community has only recently gotten serious about because people who cite statistics about the HIV rate in the US among gays use it as a way to shove them back into the dark corners of society. Encouraging lasting relationships in the gay community will ultimately lower the rate of STD and HIV transmission, much as curbing the trend towards sexual promiscuity among young people in the heterosexual community will help curb instances of HPV among young women. Also, just an FYI, the demographics of the number of gay people in this country is difficult to calculate, in part because they continue to be marginalized. However, estimates of between 4 and 6% of the population seem to be pretty sound.

Jonathon Struve of IA 1:07PM May 09, 2012

Andreas of NY thinks that homosexuality is "natural" and "right"!

See Reason 10 of 17 in the online article ""Is Cuomo Ignoring the Evidence Against Gay Marriage?" ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/54881192/Is-Cuomo-Ignoring-the-Evidence-Against-Gay-Marriage-Updated ).

Andreas' position is perplexing given the hard medical evidence:

"...The Surgeon General has said, "Condoms provide some protection, but anal intercourse is simply too dangerous a practice...." ("Condoms and sexually transmitted diseases, especially AIDS": Article 7, FDA document 90-4239).

"... David Ostrow et al have gone to great lengths to explain why the Surgeon General has adopted this position, and it bears repeating at this stage:...

"... The physiology of the rectum makes it clear that sodomy is unnatural. The inward expansion of the rectum during anal intercourse frequently tears the rectal lining, resulting in spasms, colitis, cramps, and a variety of other physical responses. Furthermore, sperm can readily penetrate the rectal wall (the vagina cannot be so readily penetrated) and do massive immunological damage, leaving the body vulnerable to a bewildering variety of opportunistic infections...." (David Ostrow et al, eds., “Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual Men”, New York, Plenum Medical Book Co., 1982 … in the article “Hemorrhoids, Anal Fissure and Condylomata Acuminata”; G. Manligit et al., “Chronic Immune Stimulation by Sperm Alloantigens,” in the Journal of the American Medical Association 251, 1984 … 237-241; See also J. Richards et al.,

“Rectal Insemination Modifies Immune Responses in Rabbits,” Science 224 … 1984 … 390-392; G. Shearer and A. Rabson, “Semen and Aids,” Nature

308 … 1984:230). (These and other citations in Roger Magnuson's "Are Gay Rights Right? Making Sense of the Controversy"; Multhnomah Press:)..."

Or perhaps this might help:

The Centers for Disease control FastFacts on HIV/AIDS in gay and bisexual men (MSM) IN SEPTEMBER 2010 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/FastFacts-MSM-FINAL508COMP.pdf ):

REMEMBER, THIS IS FOR 4% OF THE USA'S POPULATION ...

1. MSM account for nearly half of the more than one million people living with HIV in the U.S. (48%, or an estimated 532,000 total persons).

2. MSM account for more than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. each year (53%, or an estimated 28,700 infections).

3. While CDC estimates that MSM account for just 4 percent of the U.S. male population aged 13 and older, the rate of new HIV diagnoses among MSM in the U.S. is more than 44 times that of other men (range: 522–989 per 100,000

MSM vs. 12 per 100,000 other men).

4. MSM are the only risk group in the U.S. in which new HIV infections are increasing. While new infections have declined among both heterosexuals and injection drug users, the annual number of new HIV infections among MSM

has been steadily increasing since the early 1990s.

So, Andreas, EXACTLY how "normal" and "natural" is homosexuality again?

Roger of NJ 3:43PM July 08, 2011

These folks are being nice: What they are saying with their big words is that the more educated you are, the less likely you are to believe what we've all been taught--the lie that homosexuality is somehow unnatural and therefore wrong.

Anyone who thinks FRC's data isn't skewed probably still thinks the world is flat.

Roger of NH obviously watches Fox News for his fair and balanced view of the world.

Here is a different world view:

Homosexuality exists, with statistical regularity, in free cultures, and underground in almost every other "closed" culture.

Homosexuality, along with bisexuality, occurs in more than 450 non-human species.

All traits are selected, therefore all human traits are selected.

Mutations occur with statistical regularity--more so during periods of increased radiation. Mutations favorable to the survival of the individual are selected, thus allowing the species to evolve. Negative mutations die out.

Homosexuality is well documented throughout human history. If it were negative, it would have died out long ago.

Further,

Social engineering to effect population control (decrease growth) was practiced in Ancient Greece, c. 600 BCE. Homosexuality was encouraged to limit (male) offspring in order to help prevent endless subdivision of inherited real property. This was well accepted by the society and considered normal behavior.

Social engineering to effect population control (increase growth) has been practiced by Judeo-Christo-Islamic cultures for thousands of years in order to achieve national security: there is safety in numbers, and the more there are of US, the better WE can protect ourselves against THEM. Only 1 in every 100 is suitable for warfare, so an army of 100,000 requires a population of 10,000,000.

Approbation against non-procreative behaviors and relationships is used by social engineers to achieve the above results. Homosexuality was thought to lessen the chance of success in the long term by slowing the baby-making industrial complex.

A moral aspect was attached to this approbation as an ancient Judaic technique that ensured compliance: Since the Almighty says so, if you don't comply, you will go to Hell.

Species that do not live in balance with their environment go extinct. We are destroying our world in order to protect ourselves from our neighbors, our enemies.

If we do not lift the moral approbation against non-procreative behavior and relationships, we will continue down the current path of destruction. Our bisexual nature is key to human success in the geological long term. Without it, along with failing to redeem the other cerebral practices, we are doomed, and we are killing countless other species along with ourselves.

Finally, THE TREND TO ACCEPT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE is a final attempt by our species to survive in the long term. We should listen to our inner voices that tell us, "It's okay to be gay, because God made us this way. Don't listen to what the others say. One day, one day!!"

Andreas of NY 9:14PM July 07, 2011

Dr. Paul McHugh, Distinguished Service Professor in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, addresses the collossal psycho-sexual torment manifest in "transgenders" and "homosexuals" in his online article "Surgical Sex" (http://www.policystudies.ca/documents/Surgical_Sex_Change.pdf )

He is forced to come to one incredible conclusion (why wasn't it obvious to everyone before?)

"... ..We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather thantrying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it…. "

Perhaps it wasn't obvious to everyone before because ... gay advocacy is built on a hoax of stupendous proportions!

Roger of NH 6:02PM July 07, 2011