MRSA Outbreak Among 'Gays'- Let the Whitewash Begin

TownHall ^ | 01-24-08 | Matt Barber

[jimluke01]

You can’t help but feel a little sorry for Amanda Beck. She’s a reporter from Reuters who was among the first to cover a new study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, which warns about an outbreak of a virulent, drug-resistant, and potentially deadly strain of Staph infection afflicting certain segments of the homosexual community.

Although outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, have primarily been confined to hospitals in the past, the study determined that, due to “high risk behaviors” beyond hospital walls — such as “anal sex” — men who have sex with men are now 13 times more likely to contract the infection.

Because this particular strain can be transmitted through “skin-to-skin contact,” researchers fear the outbreak “has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination” and will spread to “the general population.” Once it does, they say it will be “unstoppable.”

The initial reporting by some in the mainstream media, even The New York Times, was fairly accurate and balanced. It superficially addressed the study’s lucid data and sound conclusions.

But all that quickly changed.

You see, by even reporting on this study, Amanda Beck and her media codefendants deviated from the script. They broke the rules. And in so doing, they really, really ticked off that 500-pound homosexual activist gorilla and his yappy, apple polishing lapdogs back at media central.

Here’s where Amanda went wrong. She objectively provided scientific information to the public which cast “high risk” homosexual conduct in a negative light. She led people to a credible medical study that underscores the potential consequences of a demonstrably dangerous and desperately empty lifestyle.

She dared to report the study’s genuine findings, and for that, Amanda Beck and her media co-condemned will, no doubt, be working the obits beat in journalistic Siberia until they’ve successfully completed obligatory “sensitivity” training.

Dr. Binh Diep, the researcher who led the study, told Reuters, “Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable … ‘We think that it's spread through sexual activity.’”

And the fan was thusly and most directly hit.

Now began the backpedaling: “Move along, folks, nothing to see here,” seemed to bark The New York Times, Newsweek and other media outlets. “Ignore that homosexual pressure group behind the curtain.”

Following the lead of “gay” activists, the mainstream media desperately scrambled to change the subject, engaging in a classic “kill-the-messenger” strategy. The researchers who conducted the study were even attacked, and calls by groups like Concerned Women for America (CWA) to end political promotion of the “high-risk behaviors” associated with the outbreak were warped through a prism of obfuscation and misdirection.

Homosexual groups and the media set up a mean ol’ straw man and took to knocking the stuffing out of him. Conservative organizations were suggested to have claimed the outbreak was “the new AIDS,” a “new gay disease” and “the gay plague,” all things which nobody I know ever implied.

They mischaracterized a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement on the controversy as a repudiation of the study (which, of course, it was not). “There is no evidence at this time to suggest that MRSA is a sexually-transmitted infection in the classical sense,” read the statement. Again, nobody said MRSA was “a sexually-transmitted infection in the classical sense.” (Emphasis added). The study merely found that, as it pertains to certain segments of the “gay” community, it was being transmitted through “high-risk” sexual behaviors.

The New York Times disingenuously reported that the researchers had “issued an apology” for releasing “their findings.” “We deplore negative targeting of specific populations in association with MRSA infections or other public health concerns,” said Dr. Henry Chambers in what hardly amounted to “an apology.”

But the coup de grâce came when Kevin Berger — some cat over at Salon Magazine — personally attacked me. He noted that a handful of professional football players with turf burns had also contracted MRSA.

So desperate was he to downplay this behaviorally related MRSA outbreak among “gays” that he wrote an entire article built around the premise that, “It is fair to reason that more American men play football than have sex with one another.”

That little bit of flapdoodle was so rich that I was tempted to respond in kind with an article but decided against it. This poor fellow’s tortured logic betrays his folly. I wouldn’t want to pile on. It’d be like pulling a little girl’s pigtails, and I hate to appear “mean-spirited.”

Nonetheless, Berger’s dodgy rationalization perfectly encapsulates the strategy employed by both the homosexual lobby and the rest of his media cohorts. They can’t possibly be this deep in denial, so the cover up must be intentional.

Still, the actual study left little room for rationalization. It determined that the spread of MRSA, “among men who have sex with men is associated with high-risk behaviors, including use of methamphetamine and other illicit drugs, sex with multiple partners, participation in a group sex party, use of the internet for sexual contacts, skin-abrading sex, and history of sexually transmitted infections.”

Ultimately, the study warned that, “Having male-male sex seems to be a risk factor for [MRSA] … The infection frequently manifests as an abscess or cellulitis in the buttocks, genitals, or perineum, and male-male sex was a risk factor.”

The study found that this behaviorally related “[MRSA] epidemic probably started in San Francisco and has been disseminated by the frequent cross-coastal travel of men who have sex with men.”

It all boils down to this: The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions. When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences.

The medical community has known for decades that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we’ve seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves “gay.”

But don’t take my word for it. Ask one of their own. Prolific author and homosexual activist, Jack Hart:

“Many sexually transmitted diseases occur more often among gay men than in the general population. Several factors contribute to this difference: Gay men have the opportunity to engage in sex with more people than do most heterosexual men, and some practices common among gays — especially rimming [anal-oral intercourse] and anal intercourse — are highly efficient at transmitting disease.” (Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Allyson Books, 1998, pp. 212-213).

Still, don’t just take Jack’s word for it:

“The same patterns of increased sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men … have been driving resurgent epidemics of early syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, and new HIV infections in San Francisco, Boston, and elsewhere,” concluded the MRSA study.

So finally, I ask this question, and it’s a troubling one indeed: What can one say about the character of organized political activists and mainstream journalists who would intentionally place a deceptive political agenda above the health and well-being of Americans, including members of their own community? … Who would choose to deliberately quash valuable medical information which might save lives simply because it creates a setback to narrow political ambitions?

I know what I’d say, and it sure ain’t nice.

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Matt Barber is one of the "like-minded men" with Concerned Women for America and serves as CWA's policy director for cultural issues.

[lapster]

Geesh, that’s stark. True, but stark. When I think of what the boys do to each other, I’m reminded of Jim Carey’s great line: “What possesses a guy to look over at a beautiful woman lying in bed next to him and say, ‘You know, I could really stand to see a little more hair on that ass.” Beats me!

[DJ MacWoW]

HPV and Men - CDC Fact Sheet

Some men are more likely to develop HPV-related diseases than others::

* Gay and bisexual men are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer than heterosexual men.
* Men with weak immune systems, including those who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are more likely than other men to develop anal cancer. Men with HIV are also more likely to get severe cases of genital warts that are hard to treat.

[Magnolia]

Thanks for the info. I’m bookmarking this thread.

[DJ MacWoW]

There's more but I'm being lazy and not looking it up. LOL

In doing searches on Gardasil, I came across interesting stats on males getting HPV and penile/anal cancers.

[cowdog77]

Another point to consider is the well-known fact that the average life expectancy of homosexual males is not much over half that of heterosexual males.”
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Which is as it should be...eventually they will eliminate themselves.

[xrmusn]

Like they say, “The best way to avoid AIDS is to sit down and shut your mouth” and “Don’t stick anything in your body that don’t naturally belong there”

[eclecticEel]

It would seem that what happens in a public restroom doesn’t stay in a public restroom.

[Octar]

I'm glad that I never became a physician. I don't know what I'd do if a patient came in who had anal syphilis or some of the other revolting examples of things that result from that behavior, both of which are more than adequately described on this thread.

The only thing which would prevent me from throwing him out the window would be my unwillingness to touch him.

gag

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

According to a link at NARTH, homosexual men are 4,000 times more likely to develop anal cancer.

Drug resistant syphillis? 64% of the cases are homosexual men.

Hyper-AIDS? Homosexual men who use drugs.

[gidget7]

With this new MRSA information, it is pretty clear we could ALL be at risk, because of the behavior that spreads it so well. WE can catch this stuff very easily from touching a doorknob. Makes ya wanna have homosexuals cooking your food, teaching your kids, working in your hospitals, does it not??

The descriptions on this thread are not touching on the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. There are 100’s of medical issues, reconstructive surgeries, emergencies, chronic medical problems this behavior causes, that this thread doesn’t even touch on. And yes they are exceedingly gross. It is so sad what human beings can be willing to do to themselves and each other. And politicians pass laws to protect their right to do it! It really will be the death of us all if things continue the way they are going in this country. People should demand the truth, before it becomes illegal to do so.

[DJ MacWoW]

There are a lot of damning statistics that tell a horrific tale about that lifestyle but few journalists are willing to tell the truth........which is why we’re on this thread talking about the posted article. Telling the truth about homosexuality, global warming and islam (to name a few) is verboten.

[Octar]

To your response: Amen.

Waking up would be a good thing.

[gidget7]

We can forget the media, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them. But Health Organizations, State fed and world, have a duty to tell people, and they aren’t. Instead they hype false issues and outlandishly inflate others, like global warming, deaths related to smoking and second hand smoke.

No one ever has or ever would suggest teaching school children how to “safe smoke”, not even smokers. Kinda gives you a bit of prospective on the deviant minds of these people.

[Graybeard58]

They can’t possibly be this deep in denial, so the cover up must be intentional.

They aren't. It is.

[Graybeard58]

Excellent article! Another point to consider is the well-known fact that the average life expectancy of homosexual males is not much over half that of heterosexual males.

I wanted to quote that number recently but couldn't find a source. I think it was 47 years or so. Do you know where I can find it?

[DJ MacWoW]

There's a bunch of links.

Googled life expectancy of homosexual males

[Graybeard58]

That was quick. thank you.

[Paleo Conservative]

Here’s another unspoken risk. Gay men are increasingly being diagnosed with anal HPV, the virus that causes many of the cervical cancers. This has been severely underplayed despite the marketing of Gardisil to “active” young women. The next Gardisil ad campaign may well target gay men.

Here's an article about a famous woman with anal cancer. Makes you wonder how she got it.

Farrah Fawcett Is Fighting Cancer

Actress Is Reportedly Getting Treatment for Anal Cancer

WebMD Medical News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Oct. 13, 2006 -- Former Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett faced many foes in her years playing private detective Jill Munroe, but she may now be facing her toughest enemy yet -- cancer.

While her publicist, Mike Pingell, did not confirm the type of cancer, actor Ryan O'Neal told People magazine that Fawcett had been diagnosed with anal cancer, a relatively rare cancer that occurs in the anus. The anal canal is a small section, about an inch and a half long, that connects the rectum to the outside of the body.

"The reason people don't hear so much about anal cancer is not because it's taboo or a body part that we don't often talk about, it is because it is such an uncommon type of cancer," says Debbie Saslow, PhD, director of breast and gynecologic cancer at the American Cancer Society (ACS) in Atlanta.

In 2006, there will be 4,660 new cases of anal cancer in the U.S. and about 660 deaths, according to ACS statistics.

When celebrities like Fawcett come forward with a cancer diagnosis, it can raise awareness and often change health behaviors, Saslow tells WebMD.

"When [CBS anchorwoman] Katie Couric talked about colon cancer, she really increased awareness about screening, but with anal cancer, we don't have screening, so we won't see the same behavior change," she says.

[Octar]

Color me silly, but I believe that a tipping point exists that will awaken people to the health threat that this new mess presents.

Perhaps it's that when AIDS was mostly confined to the gay community, nobody cared.

But now that, through their vile behavior, they are giving each other each other an awful infection that is easily transmittable to anyone who might come in contact with anything they may have touched, that might be the tipping point.

I hope so.

We don't eat in restaurants .

Can't be too careful.

[Hammerhead]

Sarah Silverman said it best; “If we can put a man on the moon, then why can’t we put a man with AIDS on the moon? And if we can put a man with AIDS on the moon, then why can we put everyone with AIDS on the moon?”