Homosexual Sex Driving AIDS Epidemic in Asia

I wholeheartedly support your view and your efforts. I only wish I could help financially. We have a nonprofit 501(c)(3), and you are right: we face tremendous free speech impediments. Now, thanks to the federal courts, homosexuals are considered a "protected class." I am an African American. My grandfather was a slave as a child. My mother was picking cotton when she went into labor with me. I still feel the effects of slavery. However, I've used the wheels of education to help mobilize my career. I face a great deal of challenges but I don't sit back and blame everything and everybody. God is in control. I am his tool and vessel through whom he works. I resent the fact that homosexuals are trying to move their agenda forward by comparing their plight with that of African Americans. They are not a "race." They are not a "class" of people. They are in SIN, nothing more, nothing less. God tells us to speak the truth in love, and I believe this. He tells us to be "wise as serpents" and "harmless as doves." The Bible says that the time is coming (now) when men will call "right" wrong and "wrong" right. True believers are not those who are guilty of hate speech. I have heard more ugly, more abominable, and more nasty speech from the mouths of people like Perez Hilton, a celebrity who is homosexual. No one chastises him. No one comments on his behavior. God sees and hears, and this misguided young man will have to give an account before our just and holy God. I believe homosexuality is another major piece in the Mark of the Beast. The time is coming when an economic worldwide system will be put into place that, unless you give allegiance, for example, wholeheartedly accept homosexuality, you will be unable to buy or sell. In fact, this system is steadily gaining ground. I believe the present administration is bringing all of this to pass.

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Bob, what makes homosexual behavior risky?

If it is indeed "tremendously unhealthy," as you say, then why have I not gotten AIDS or any STD?

Not everyone who uses drugs will destroy their life. Not everyone who drinks will drive drunk. Not everyone who drives drunk will have an accident.

But the danger of each of these--including homosexual behavior--is obvious enough (to anyone who isn't desperately invested in ignoring reality and continuing the behavior) that we try to keep people from engaging in these destructive behaviors.

Like always, you attempt to justify the unjustifiable by trying to make the exception become the rule.

Your first three statements are very true. However, I would add that not everyone who uses drugs will be come addicted, and not everyone who drinks will even get drunk; in fact, many people, myself included, enjoy alcohol but dislike getting drunk. Also, your comparison between homosexual sex and drug use is problematic, because it presupposes that one cannot have homosexual sex without harming their body. Not true. When you take a drug, be it alcohol or nicotine or marijuana or ibuprofen or even caffeine, it will have an unavoidable physiological effect on you, even if it's miniscule and even if you can't feel it. But sexual behavior is not some kind of substance that you put into your body; it's not something you partake of or can overdose on; it's not something that inherently alters your mood or locomotor function or body chemistry. The only similarities I can see between drugs and sexual behavior (both homo- and hetero-) are the following:

-- both can become an addiction, and

-- both can be experienced either responsibly or irresponsibly.

Other than that, I sincerely do not understand why you insist on comparing homosexuality to alcoholism and drug abuse; I think only a person who does not understand homosexuality would make that comparison. Also, when the issue comes up about whether gay people can change their orientation from homosexual to heterosexual, you cite your triumph over alcoholism as support that they can. I think it's awesome that you overcame your addiction, but you have yet to explain how your story is relevant to the "gay people can change" debate. It doesn't make sense.

In my previous comment, I asked you those two particular questions - which you've expertly avoided answering - because there's a glaring flaw in your argument: you never stop to ask WHY. When you look at a study like this, you should consider the reasons why there's such a strong correlation between male homosexual behavior and HIV/AIDS (while bearing in mind that correlation does not equal causation). You should consider the different variables that distinguish men who spread the disease from men who do not. And most importantly, you should consider the role that personal responsibility plays in all of this. In other words, for every statistic you encounter, you should ask yourself, "Why is that so?"

But judging by the generalizations and faulty analogies with which you discuss this issue, I can tell that none of these factors matter to you. You are more concerned with portraying homosexuality as inherently unhealthy, while ignoring the reasons why people like me have not encountered a single one of the stereotypical "dangers" of homosexuality that you always list. You reluctantly agree that I'm an exception to the rule, but choose not to explore why that is. Is that what you call dealing with reality? C'mon, don't you at least have a guess as to why I don't have AIDS or STDs?

Finally, you have a severe problem with misinterpreting data, and given the number of times I've called you out on this, I'm beginning to think it's intentional. The WHO study very clearly focuses only on men who have sex with men (MSM), yet your headline says "homosexual sex," which is a general term that includes both men who have sex with men AND women who have sex with women. That's very misleading and very inaccurate, and absolutely not what the WHO study says at all. Dr. Theo, I'm glad you are careful and fact-oriented enough to specify the AIDS problem as relating to *male* homosexual sex, but I find it disconcerting that you have not brought Bob's error to his attention.

I don’t understand your problem, Cinemaphile. In regards to Mr. Ellis’ use of the word ‘homosexual,' we all know that ‘homosexual’ properly refers to either male or female same-sex attraction/activity, but it is not unusual to see the word used without a modifier when speaking of only male homosexuals, especially when it is clear from the context what is meant, as it is in this piece by Mr. Ellis. Do you think Mr. Ellis was trying to mislead his readers? We are all grown-ups here and most are reasonably intelligent. I don’t think the use of ‘homosexual’ in this piece is really very confusing to anyone. What am I missing?

"I believe that if male homosexual sex were to cease new cases of AIDS would decline to the point of it becoming one of hundreds of rare deseases that medical students learn about but may not see in a lifetime of practice."

If the context was already established, then why didn't you just write "homosexual sex"?

You are truly a master at the art of quibbling...though that is a dubious honor.

Just good at noticing contradictions when I see them.

Oh, good grief!

I know, right?!

Like anything, misuse risks harm. Misuse does not always result in harm, but it does often enough that people should be discouraged from misusing drugs, alcohol...or their sexuality.

Misuse of sexuality can have far-reaching effects that go beyond and transcend even the physical risks. Sex outside of marriage can lead to a lack of appreciation for the special nature of sex...which can result in other issues (greater promiscuity, STDs, abortion, children out of wedlock, etc.). It can also lead to emotional problems, self-esteem issues, depression and sometimes suicide.

Spiritually, misuse of sexuality separates one from God because they are using their God-given sexuality in a way he does not approve of, which makes it a sin, which separates us from God. And unrepentant sin in this life can lead to eternal separation from God in the next.

The comparisons between homosexual behavior and other unhealthy, destructive behaviors like drug use, alcohol addition, huffing, smoking, etc. are obvious...to someone who does not have their head buried in the sand so that they can live with an unjustifiable behavior.

You have a severe problem in dealing with reality. When you encounter factual information that jumps out at the normal person, you become as obtuse as a rock, and it's really unbecoming for an otherwise intelligent person like yourself. But when you encounter information that would make most people respond "Well, duh!", you feign total ignorance to the obvious implications and conclusions.

You attempt to scramble for any excuse to avoid unpleasant truths. In your comment, you--as a male--insist on focusing on the fact that homosexuals are both male and female. You do so with an emphasis on the female component of the homosexual community with the intent of drawing attention away from the health risks of your own sex. You know that the physiology of males makes transmission of the disease during sex much more likely than for females, yet you pretend the difference somehow magically erases the negative health aspects for males. You may also know that more than 2/3 of homosexuals are male.

As a male, I tend to focus more on the implications of an issue as they relate to a male. Yet you dodge the implications for your own group and make a beeline for any subgroup or subset or exception to the rule in order to draw attention away from the overall issue or the facet closest to home for you.

Why do you think that is? Your evasive maneuvers are so predictable they would be hilarious in a TV show. But for an adult human being with a God-given intelligence and capacity for reason and logical deduction, it's very sad.

When I got out of my destructive habits of heterosexual promiscuity and alcohol abuse, it was essential to first acknowledge that what I was doing was bad for me.

The terrible tragedy of the AIDS whitewash is that the people and agencies that average Americans look to for guidance as to what is healthy and what is harmful are AWOL. No, they are actively perpetuating the lie that something very harmful is perfectly fine and normal.

If they did this with smoking, drug use, asbestos or some other harmful behavior or substance, we would clamor for them to be locked up for their negligence to public safety. But because the behavior fueling AIDs is a politically correct behavior, we demand that they remain silent about the harm.

We are a culture gone insane.

Boy, you really don't want to talk about why many gay men don't have AIDS. I guess you think it's blind luck or something. Oh well.

Epidemiologists know the facts about HIV transmission and spread but to say it publicly would be the end of their careers. Instead we pretend that this is a problem distributed evenly across the spectrum of socio-economic groups and sexual practices. I believe that if male homosexual sex were to cease new cases of AIDS would decline to the point of it becoming one of hundreds of rare deseases that medical students learn about but may not see in a lifetime of practice.