The rise in cases among gay men around the country has alarmed AIDS prevention experts, because syphilis is transmitted through the same unprotected sexual practices that spread HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In addition, syphilis increases by two to five times the risk of HIV transmission, because the genital sores serve as "portals" for the AIDS virus to enter the bloodstream. In San Francisco during 2002, there were 315 new syphilis cases, for a case rate of 40.6 for every 100,000 residents. That is nearly 20 times the case rate of 2.2 for the nation as a whole. But, But, I thought that the gay lifestyle had no health risks ! At Least thats's what They tell us...
And don't forget everyone, that if you object to a behavior that is 20 times more likely to cause uncurable debilitating disease then you are clearly a bigot.