Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates: As High as Our Hormones
Reuters is reporting on the latest release from the Centers for Disease Control on Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
I wrote yesterday about the increase in Sexually Transmitted Diseases in South Dakota at my Red County blog, but it seems South Dakota isn’t the only place to see an increase. Nationwide, STDs are skyrocketing.
The Reuters article says this:
Syphilis has increased each year since 2000 — its rate is up 81 percent — with gay and bisexual men representing 65 percent of cases, the CDC said.
This, when homosexuals only make up 2.9% of the population. The implications are staggering: 2.9% of the population is responsible for 65% of Syphilis cases. You do the math.
But syph wasn’t the only area where homosexuals had vastly disproportionate infection rates.
With gonorrhea, homosexual men were four times more likely to have the disease than heterosexual men (36% versus 9%).
And according to the CDC, some 72% of male AIDS cases are linked to homosexual behavior.
There are several other STDs where homosexuals usually have historically disproportionate infection rates, such as HPV and herpes, but I did not see statistics for these diseases broken down by sexual behavior.
These high disease transmission rates are not new in the homosexual community. Ironically, rather than launch a massive public service campaign to warn people away from this dangerous behavior (as we do with smoking, drinking, drug use, etc.), our government agencies are waging an aggressive campaign to get people to believe that homosexual behavior is moral, normal and healthy.
Black Americans were also disproportionately represented in these infection rates. While making up 12% of the population, as Reuters says,
account for about 70 percent of gonorrhea cases and almost half of chlamydia and syphilis cases
It is a long-established fact that the black community has been hit hard by the effects of sexual irresponsibility. For decades, promiscuity has been rampant, and black Americans have paid the price in teen pregnancies, unwed motherhood, children growing up without fathers in the home, and as this report highlights, high rates of STDs.
Here, too, society fails to encourage restraint and responsible behavior. Some have called such cowardice the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Do we really believe that homosexuals and blacks are incapable of controlling themselves? Do we really believe they are no better than animals who know only how to follow an urge?
Or is it really just simple cowardice? Pure, moral cowardice. We might appear “judgmental” if we called for moral and responsible behavior. Someone might call us a “prude.” Someone might say we are “bigoted.” So we allow our fear of peer pressure and a little name-calling to scare us into gutlessness.
There are many reasons why God warns human beings about sex outside of his design for it (marriage), and none of them include simply spoiling our fun. Rather, as the creator of human beings, God knows the kind of physical, emotional and spiritual tolls promiscuity can take on us.
If we were a rational civilization, we would stop pretending we can beat the odds, that we can somehow defy the law of consequences. If we were thinking clearly, we would abandon this our juvenile lust to have our cake and eat it, too, and would promote sexual responsibility with all the resources at our disposal.
Obviously, we are not a rational society that is thinking clearly. And as long as we embrace irresponsibility, the suffering behind this report will continue…
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