Posted on 03/17/2002 8:45:13 PM PST by AFA-Michigan
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Glossed over in the media's glorification of Rosie O'Donell's public announcement that she has sex with other women were these startling contradictions: O'Donnell's frank admission that she believes her own adopted children would be better off being raised by a married mother and father, bolstered by her hope that the children won't follow her example and engage in homosexual behavior themselves.
"Would it be easier for (my kids) if I were married to a man? It probably would," O'Donnell told ABC News reporter Diane Sawyer. http://www.drudgereport.com/mattro.htm
And when asked if she hopes her adopted children will grow up to be "straight"...
"Yes, I do," Rosie said. "I think life is easier if you're straight...if I were to pick, would I rather have my children have to go through the struggles of being gay in America, or being heterosexual, I would say heterosexual."
Thus the biggest conclusion Americans should draw from the Rosie O'Donnell confessional is this -- that Ms. O'Donnell is a privileged adult who put her own feelings ahead of what even she believes would be in the best interests of the children, and who used her privilege and wealth to place children too young to object in an environment that two recent studies indicate will make them more likely to engage in the very high risk behavior Rosie hopes they won't.
The scientific fact is that children’s health is endangered if they are adopted into households in which the adults – as a direct consequence of their homosexual behavior -- experience dramatically higher risks of domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, life-threatening disease, and premature death by up to 20 years.
* “The probability of violence occurring in a gay couple is mathematically double the probability of that in a heterosexual couple,” write the editors of the National Gay & Lesbian Domestic Violence Network newsletter. http://www.afamichigan.org/releases/20010315a.htm
* The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that “people with same-sex sexual behavior are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders” – including bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, and anxiety disorders, major depression, and substance abuse. http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/issues/v58n1/abs/yoa9456.html
* The Medical Institute of Sexual Health reports: “Homosexual men are at significantly increased risk of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, anal cancer, gonorrhea and gastrointestinal infections as a result of their sexual practices. Women who have sex with women are at significantly increased risk of bacterial vaginosis, breast cancer and ovarian cancer than are heterosexual women." (Executive Summary, "Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality," 1999, www.medinstitute.org)
* The Institute reports that “significantly higher percentages of homosexual men and women abuse drugs, alcohol and tobacco than do heterosexuals."
* Oxford University’s International Journal of Epidemiology reports: “Life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men…nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th birthday.” http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/657?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&FIRSTINDEX=&volume=26&firstpage=657&journalcode=intjepid
Is it healthy for children to be adopted by adults whose lifestyle is characterized by promiscuity and the medical hazards of multiple sex partners?
* A Detroit homosexual newsmagazine columnist in January wrote regarding his new sex partner: "This is his first relationship, so he has not yet been ruined by all the heartache, lies, deceit, and game-playing that are the hallmark of gay relationships...A study I once read suggested that nine out of 10 gay men cheat on their lovers." http://www.pridesource.com/cgi-bin/article?article=3839978
* The Center for Disease Control warns that men who have sex with men "have large numbers of anonymous partners, which can result in rapid, extensive transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.” http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4835a1.htm
How will being adopted by adults involved in homosexual behavior affect the behavior of children themselves?
* Associated Press reported last June that a “new study by two University of Southern California sociologists says children with lesbian or gay parents...are probably more likely to explore homosexual activity themselves...(and) grow up to be more open to homoerotic relations.” http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_package.html?FRONTID=NATIONAL&PACKAGEID=gays&STORYID=APIS7CM1Q5G0
* A major Australian newspaper reported Feb. 4th regarding a British sociologist’s review of 144 academic papers on homosexual parenting: “Children raised by gay couples will suffer serious problems in later life, a study into parenting has found. The biggest investigation into same-sex parenting to be published in Europe claims children brought up by gay couples are more likely to experiment with homosexual behavior and be confused about their sexuality.” http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3709157%5E912,00.html
Which means children adopted by adults involved in homosexual behavior face not only second hand exposure to the risks of such behavior by their “parents,” but are more likely to suffer first hand by engaging in the same high-risk behavior themselves.
Young people who model the homosexual behavior of their adopted “parents” face other risks.
* The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry published a study of 4,000 high school students by Harvard Medical School, which found that “gay-lesbian-bisexual youth report disproportionate risk for a variety of health risk and problem behaviors…engag(ing) in twice the mean number of risk behaviors as did the overall population.” (Garofalo, Robert, et al. "The Association Between Health Risk Behaviors and Sexual Orientation Among a School-based Sample of Adolescents," Pediatrics 101, no. 5, May 1998: 895-902.)
* “GLB orientation was associated with increased…use of cocaine (and other illegal) drugs. GLB youth were more likely to report using tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine before 13 years of age. Among sexual risk behaviors, sexual intercourse before 13 years of age, sexual intercourse with four or more partners…and sexual contact against one’s will all were associated with GLB orientation.”
The sheer weight of evidence makes the issue clear:
Should children be handed over as trophies to the homosexual “rights” movement – adopting them into households where they’ll face dramatically higher risk of exposure to domestic violence, mental illness, life-threatening disease and premature death? An environment which increases the chances they’ll engage in high risk homosexual behavior themselves?
Not on your life, Rosie.
And certainly not theirs.
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E-mail Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and urge him to veto any attempt to repeal Florida's current law protecting children from the moral, spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health hazards of homosexual adoption.
fl_governor@myflorida.com
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That said, I would not back this in Michigan.
Generally if the AMA and AAofP are for it, I'm against it, since there is no worse lobby than the "public health" lobbies.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a Florida issue, and Floridians should decide.
"Would it be easier for (my kids) if I were married to a man? It probably would," O'Donnell told ABC News reporter Diane Sawyer. http://www.drudgereport.com/mattro.htm
And when asked if she hopes her adopted children will grow up to be "straight"...
"Yes, I do," Rosie said. "I think life is easier if you're straight...if I were to pick, would I rather have my children have to go through the struggles of being gay in America, or being heterosexual, I would say heterosexual."
Thus the biggest conclusion Americans should draw from the Rosie O'Donnell confessional is this -- that Ms. O'Donnell is a privileged adult who put her own feelings ahead of what even she believes would be in the best interests of the children, and who used her privilege and wealth to place children too young to object in an environment that two recent studies indicate will make them more likely to engage in the very high risk behavior Rosie hopes they won't.
Rosie O'Donnell...
Everything about her is a lie. She is not a parent - - there are no children that are the product of her ovaries. She wants children but claims she is homosexual - - the desire to have children is a heterosexual desire. Rosie just can't make up her mind. By definition, homosexuals do not reproduce - - it is self-imposed sterility.
No person can ever have a "sex change." The use of the language has been so twisted by the leftist radicals, that in our touchy-feely world, many blindly accept some of these erroneous terminologies.
XX or XY chromosones can't be changed after conception when mitosis begins.
The physicians who do this type of cosmetic mutilation should not be allowed to practice medicine. The same goes for breast implants: instead of lawsuits against Dow-Corning, the doctors who implanted the silicone bags should be held liable...
"Homosexuals" are still genetically male or female.They are sterile. In genetics: XO (Turner syndrome), XXY (Klinefelter syndrome), XXX (poly-X syndrome), and XYY (Jacob syndrome). No matter how many X chromosones there are, any individual with a Y chromosone developes into a male. These abnormalities are so few, only one in thousands occur.
So much for the "gay" gene - - it does not exist. The reality of human reproductive biology smacks them hard across the face. There is no such thing as a homosexual parent. Homosexuals do not reproduce. Reproduction requires heterosexual interaction...
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