Posted on 07/25/2014 4:29:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
A study released Monday at the conference shows that vulnerable communities in Nigeria fared far worse after legislation was passed criminalizing gay male sex. And in a panel scheduled for Wednesday , researchers were expected to discuss way to help advocates, doctors and patients combat stigma.
The past year has seen both unprecedented advances in gay rights - with expanded marriage equality in the U.S. – and even more significant setbacks, with discriminatory laws passed in Nigeria and Uganda and Russia's president Vladimir Putin speaking out against gay rights, said Richard Parker, a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.
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I think people forget that bisexuality was incredibly common in the Roman Empire. A man often would have relationships both ways, married men, especially of the upper class, often would simultaneously have an intimate same gender relation or relations while living as a family man. The Bible recognizes the act as wrong, regardless of whether the person committing it is bisexual or homosexual in their inclination.
The logic boggles my mind. You would think that a so-called “persecuting environment” would actually encourage monogamy for many, though not all of those under duress.
The very fact that his article trumpets the fictional “gay rights” meme reveals what shills this source is.
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