Posted on 04/27/2015 5:56:16 PM PDT by xzins
LGBTQ icon Larry Kramer has spent the last 37 years warning of homosexuality's health hazards. He's director of ACT UP whose slogan is: "Silence=Death."
Many gay marriage advocates wish Larry would shut his mouth. His message undercuts the image of being "gay and blissful." Folks are uncomfortable adding unsavory elements like this to the conversation.
Do you think lawyers who presented arguments to the Supreme Court included the following?
"Chief Justice Roberts and esteemed members of the Court, while you will hear our efforts to persuade you to legalize gay marriage today, we must be mindful of serious, elevated health risks the gay lifestyle brings to multitudes. We must be responsible to examine medical data carefully ... ."
I don't think so.
King David, Israel's greatest ruler after whom Jerusalem was named, stated, "I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly" (Ps. 40:10).
Did pro-gay marriage attorneys not "conceal" but tell the whole "truth" in presenting their case?
Say it with me: "I don't think so."
***Infuriating, Heartbreaking Story ***
Last year Entertainment Weekly magazine highlighted the "most important, infuriating, heartbreaking movie of the year," Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's story. They cited chilling stats:
60 percentthe percentage of young Americans living with HIV today who are unaware they're infected
36 millionthe number of people who have died of AIDS since 1981
Mr. Kramer once addressed the LGBTQ community in New York. He also had tried to kill himself.
"I have recently gone through my diaries of the worst of the AIDS plague years. I saw day after day a notation of another friend's death. I listed all the ones I'd slept with. There were a couple hundred ... I know I murdered some of them. I just know ... several hundred over a bunch of years ... Most doctors do not like to discuss sex or what we do or did. ... One doctor answered me, 'It takes two to tango so you cannot take the responsibility alone."
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control released findings on gay activity. The "love story" doesn't have a happy ending. The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association also underscores their very real, dangerous elevated risks:
HIV/AIDS
Substance and alcohol abuse
Depression and anxiety
Hepatitis
STDs, including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV and prostate, testicular, oral and colon cancer.
Gay and bisexual men accounting for 75 percent of syphilis
78 percent of all new HIV infections are among males, overwhelmingly gays.
Psychological Reports and the International Journal of Epidemiology report: Homosexuals have a 20-year-shorter lifespan.
Stats can be impersonal and cold but if you've cared for a 30-year-old gay friend until his excruciating death (I later officiated his funeral with his former gay friends) you feel the pain of a devastating, unnecessary loss.
Dr. Frank Spinelli wrote the following in The Advocate, a gay publication:
"My practice predominantly treats gay men. Guess how many texts and phone calls you might receive during any given weekend involving questions that have to do with ... contracting HIV from unprotected sexual encounters? Now take that number and multiply it by 10 if that weekend should occur around Gay Pride, Folsom Street Fair, Gay Days at Disney, or any one of the Atlantis cruises. Welcome to my world!"
Our Declaration of Independence begins by referencing our Creator whom tens of millions believe designed a beautiful natural order for sexuality, marriage and family. Disregarding divinely established standards have brought epidemic STDs on America.
***Charity and Clarity Can Make for a Happy Ending***
Millions believe we shouldn't redefine marriage, opening the floodgates for polygamy, polyamory and pederasty. We should honor it as it has been defined for 5,000 years of Western Civilization (plus honored by every major world religion and 91 percent of the United Nations countries).
The spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well-being of gays should be all our concern. Should we shrink back from sharing these realities, the result will be escalating death, disease and diminished lifespans.
For attorneys, advocates and uninformed people swept up by the "marriage equality" express, did you see Mr. Kramer's billboards along the way warning "Silence = Death?"
Larry Tomczak is an author of nine books, including a quarter-million best-seller, Clap Your Hands! He is also a cultural commentator through his weekly articles on three national news services reaching 26 million monthly.
For a real insight into the “lifestyle” watch these short documentaries:
The Gift (Bug Chasing Documentary) 01/05 (4 thru 5 will play automatically)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKCcr_ayvMo
I Love Being HIV+ 1/6 (2 thru 6 will play automatically)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0C8gQZmU9E
I only have about 4-5 friends and none are queer or liberal. I keep a tight ship.
I only have about 4-5 friends and none are queer or liberal. I keep a tight ship.
I knew one of them for about ten years before he came “out.” He used to date women too. I didn’t know.
He was a neighbor. He invited me to his church. I attended it for about 10 years before I moved to another town.
His father is a retired Baptist minister that tells him he’s going to hell if he doesn’t change. His family doesn’t approve of his lifestyle but hasn’t abandoned him. I won’t either. He is still a friend and I hope he repents. I don’t see him much anymore because I live in another city.
This guy certainly isn’t politically liberal. He is very conservative politically.
I have a few liberal friends too. I am capable of having a good relationship even if we disagree. A few have even come more to my way of thinking. They see there is another story from what they’re fed by the liberal media all day long.
...and had homosexual affairs on the side, in the process putting their wives (and potentially their unborn children) at risk for HIV as well.
Closet cases are the number one reason why there's any HIV at all among heterosexuals apart from IV drug users sharing needles. And the AIDS/STD angle aside, I've always thought that closet cases like Larry Craig who keep up appearances with a sham marriage are even more off-putting than somebody who is openly homosexual.
I agree that married guys on the downlow are a health menace to their wives and children. On the other hand, having known so very many GL's in the art industry in a major city, I do know several of both sexes who left all that behind and have stayed married to the same opposite-sex spouse for decades and are now grandparents, and no one has died of AIDS, so they must be making it work.
My point being that I do not believe that homosexual behavior is an absolute, inborn trait, as demonstrated by many of those who participate in it and leave it behind as they mature. Even the gay politicos try to make bisexuals pick a side, because it makes their rants so much easier.
Marriage is marriage, forsaking all others, even if a partner is bisexually functional: "all others" means "all others." It would seem that the fact of being bisexually capable creates an excuse for cheating in some people's minds; but it comes down to commitment to the marriage, yes or no. Continuing to same-sex cheat is still cheating, especially if it is contemptuously just using the opposite-sex spouse as a breeder. So if anything good can possibly come out of this gay marriage movement, it should be fewer downlow cheaters, since they would have the opportunity to marry one of their preferred people.
But if gays or bi's want children, bringing children into a SSM is an even worse fate for the child than having one parent on the downlow. I think that's why, religion aside, societies have not supported gay marriage anywhere in the world before the last few decades with the rise of global pharmaceutical advertising and lobbying having claimed that chemical birth control is 100% effective (which it is not) plus the clamor for abortion as a social benefit (which it is not). Homosexual and all non-marital sexual behavior by adult parents is statistically a greater threat to dependent children, period. Now, gay marriage is only being supported by ignoring the research, branding all objections as bigotry, and spinning an heroic-but-substantially-untrue revolutionary narrative.
I don't support "gay marriage," but I do think that one of the benefits of a lesser stigma attached to homosexuality (i.e. its decriminalization) is that it creates fewer sham marriages where the homosexual partner endangers the health of his spouse and children and, health issues apart, inevitably engages in secretive behaviors that will eventually lead to a broken family. A good friend of mine is the son of such a sham marriage, and I never envied him or his mother their circumstances. I guess his only consolation was that without his father's need to be a closet case 40+ years ago, he would never have been born.
Is this from the CDC?
I don’t remember.
Dick Gregory?
OMG, you’re right!
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