Posted on 06/06/2005 10:50:27 PM PDT by scripter
Dr. Paul Cameron, President of Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank, announced today that a new study on the life span of homosexuals will appear in a 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports (Volume 96: pp. 693-697).
This study provides additional evidence that the practice of homosexuality, with its attendant lifestyle, shortens the life of practitioners by about 20 years.
"Obituaries have indicated that gays seldom reach old age," Cameron said. "Indeed, gay obituaries suggest that engaging in homosexuality costs participants between 15 to 25 years of life, suggesting that homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking or being fat.
"Over 10,000 gay obituaries have been collected from homosexual publications. Are the obituaries listed in the gay press representative of gay deaths in general?" Cameron asks.
A new study that compared them with Centers for Disease Control data indicates they are.
The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major homosexual paper used to track homosexual obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for homosexuals at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th centiles of deaths.
The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65.
"These findings add substantial support to our previous findings," said Cameron, who headed the study. "While no one has all the facts on this issue, the CDC data is about as good as it gets. These data indicate that considerable progress in medically combating HIV is being made – its even affecting deaths from other medical causes. Right now, the median age of death for gays in the obituaries is running near 60 – about tied with the median age of death for lesbians. Of course, the median age of death for adults is about 80 – so the 20 year hit for engaging in homosexuality that we reported 15 years ago continues to hold."
The new study "Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS" can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).
I will be contacting my Attorney General to immediately begin lawsuits against homosexuals like he did against the tobacco industry. I will then contact my legislators and demand that they create a gay tax to keep children from starting the homosexual lifestyle.
Gay smokers might need to get a second job, if they can find one....
The question was about death.
Your husband is absolutely correct, Paul Cameron is about the most discredited homophobe crook you can imagine. In the past, he published a study in which he interviewed people in SF bath houses and then extrapolated from the results to all homosexuals - how pathetic can you get?
What makes me sad though is less that Cameron is a lier, but how eagerly freepers embrace his nonsense.
I'm not banned sweetie. It's my own creation. Note the smiling face.
*giggle* -- anything for a laugh --- I sort of like my page like that.
An APA lackey? You're a pig for saying that. He has no use for the APA. My point was, anybody can find studies to suit their own views. Including you.
Apparently, you can;'t comprehend written word. I don't have a position. Keyboard wonder boy.
Arrggh!
It's catching on. I've seen several posters doing the same thing. I appreciate your concern. :)
Your husband is correct.
Yes, it's sad that there are folks who completely deny the genetic link. Were my husband interested in FR (he's not) he could surely inform the ignornat and the obtuse, but why bother? Their little minds are already made up...lol.
Pray for W and Our Troops
lol good answer!
Yeah. Thanks for your affirmation, Selk. :)
There are either bi sexuals who decide to force themselves to just be with the opposite sex or there are gay people who feel guilty about it and are celibate.
Know many gay people in my industry, one of whom became a devout Catholic and renounced being gay and has tried very hard for years to be attracted to women.
But it doesnt work for him, so he just remains a celibate gay man.
My cousin is a researcher and his studies point to in utero causes for the faulty gay direction.
To: admin
Why has onyx (since 1999-11-30) suddenly been banned?
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Yeah what in the world is going on
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Onyx is a very solid member of FR !!!
To: admin
Why has onyx (since 1999-11-30) suddenly been banned? >>>>>>>
Oh its a JOKE, good one Onyx ;)
Sly joke by Onyx
I will be contacting my Attorney General to immediately begin lawsuits against homosexuals like he did against the tobacco industry. I will then contact my legislators and demand that they create a gay tax to keep children from starting the homosexual lifestyle. >>>>>>
Scared of Secondhand Gay ?
Did you bump your head before you wrote that?
So far we know "Genetics play a part, in males for sure"
"Twin studies prove the above".
And, "most" studies are "bogus".
Now are these not your positions or just ones you can't defend? Or can't you "comprehend your own written" word? Or are you just a nasty little brat who is now mad that "she's" been called out over "her" ineptness?
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