A reposting that's needed:
I've been having a very interesting email exchange with Peter LaBarbera regarding his stigmatization of the lgbt community.
For LaBarbera, every lie he tells is justifiable because of his belief that gay men have "health risks" greater than that of heterosexuals. In fact, it's something he likes to highlight every chance he gets:
“Barack Obama’s homosexual agenda is beginning to take shape – but he has no election mandate to impose GLSEN’s radical vision of celebrating homosexuality, bisexuality and gender confusion (transsexuality) in U.S. schools,” LaBarbera said. “Anti-religious bigots should not be setting policy for schools — and promoting dangerous sex and gender identities to youth is the antithesis of ‘safety.’ (Men who have sex with other men (MSM) suffer from much higher rates of sexual diseases – including anal cancer, HIV, syphilis, and gonorrhea — than non-MSMs.)
Also:
LaBarbera also argues that many liberal school districts teach false facts about AIDS. He says they imply that everyone is at equal risk for contracting the disease -- even though in 2005 71 percent of U.S. male AIDS cases involved homosexuals. He contends that many American young people are not being informed about other health risks associated with homosexuality either -- such as increased infections of the Hepatitis B or C virus and the herpes virus. "We have all this evidence out there that homosexual behavior is dangerous," the activist point out, "and yet our politically correct elites are promoting gay identity" to teens and children.
And he is not the only one to assert this "gays are dangerous because of their behavior" claim:
If there was ever a clarion call for our entire society to say with one united voice that homosexual behavior is a danger to health and should be discouraged at all costs, this is it. We've found one voice as a society with regard to drug use and drunk driving; it's time we find it with regard to homosexual behavior. - Bryan Fischer
In fact, multiple studies have established that homosexual conduct, especially among males, is considerably more hazardous to one’s health than a lifetime of chain smoking. - Matt Barber
The "homosexuality is a health risk" factoid is a popular talking point in religious right circles. It stems from manipulating legitimate medical information regarding disease and the lgbt community. Rather than go into detail about just how this information is manipulated, I'm going to take another route.
I found this video on youtube. I dare anyone to tell me the difference between it and the nonsense about the supposed "health risks of homosexuality" factoid pushed by the religious right:
Virtually no difference. Except for maybe one: LaBarbera, Fisher, Barber and company all make it sound as though the very act of gay sex itself generates the AIDS virus,
ReplyDeleteI noticed that as well. A little while ago I was searching for information on STD rates among lesbians (because such little data on it seems to exist) and somehow I found this article:
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The guy starts out by saying that gay people have high std rates and therefore should seek heterosexuality, and then goes on to acknowledge that black people also have high std rates, and says that they should simply be monogamous. I confronted him on this in the comment section but he wouldn't admit the conflict in his views. I just don't understand some people.
That guy's easy to understand, John. He's simply a moron who didn't think anything through to its logical conclusion.
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