nakedemperor said:
You're seriously suggesting that something about homosexual physiognomy makes them *more* selfish than most people? You're suggesting that since AIDS is so prevalent in the gay community they *shouldn't* be really concerned about it? Unbelievable.
No, I didn't say that gays shouldn't be concerned about it. But it really is their responsibility and trying to hoodwink the rest of us into believing that is anything else is dishonest to say the least. AIDS was introduced into this country during the 1970s by an individual known as "Patient Zero", a gay airline flight attendant who contracted the disease while on a "sex holiday" in Africa. He infected dozens of gay men in this country who went on to infect hundreds more and the rest is history.
Furthermore, all the attention that AIDS gets has helped to take away attention (and funding) from other diseases that affect a lot more people (such as Alzheimer's disease and others).
Gays seem to be the first to rush into line when victimhood status is being conferred.
Here are a few examples......
1.
AIDS is caused by homophobia. That claim says that straight people somehow caused AIDS and are to blame. According to the CDC, in this country AIDS primarily affects gay/bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers. Furthermore, "homophobia" is not categorized as a mental condition by the APA (American Psychiatric Association) although gay activists have tried to get it classified as such. The implication is that "homophobia" is a mental disease and those who consider homosexuality to be objectionable on moral or cultural grounds are mentally ill.
BTW... I keep referring to the CDC statistics here they are:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm#exposure
2.
The "pink triangle" - used by gays as a symbol of gay identity. The pink triangle was first used by the Nazis to identify homosexual prisoners in the death camps. The implication by the gays is that the Nazis were persecuting them and that they deserve to be recognized as victims of the Holocaust, even to the point of erecting a marker at Auschwitz (over the protests of the local Jewish community that considered such a monument to be an insult to the memory of the millions of Jews who were murdered there). However, less than 15,000 people were sentenced to the death camps for being gay as opposed to 6,000,000 Jews that were murdered in those very same camps. The Gestapo and SS that carried out the murders in those camps was founded by Ernest Roehm, an early Hitler supporter and homosexual. Hitler knew Roehm was gay, considered him a friend and did not have any objections to his sexual orientation. The fact is that Hitler and the Nazis used the pink triangle as a means of further embarrassing political opponents. If they actually wanted to exterminate homosexuals in Europe, then the number of gays murdered by the Nazis would have numbered in the millions. Furthermore, other groups of people suffered much more at the hands of the Nazis and the victims that belong to those groups far outnumber homosexuals (examples, Gypsies, Slavs, Russians, Ukranians, Serbs, Poles, Czechs, and the list goes on and on).
http://www.e-z.net/wtv/v-icht-1.htm
3.
The gay gene. "I was born this way" is one of the excuses many gay people use for their sexual orientation. So now our sexual behavior is the responsibility of genetics, not choice (if that is so, then there is a gene for sexual preferences for children, rams, dead people, your close relatives, your neighbor's spouse etc). The fact is that the evidence for a gay gene is tenuous at best and no scientific conclusion has been reached. However, thanks to the gays, most people now accept the fallacy (no pun intended) that gays are born gay, when in fact, a large number of factors (including a history of sexual abuse) are more likely the cause. Whether or not you feel sexually attracted to members of the same sex may or may not be a matter of genetics, but acting on those feelings definitely is a choice.
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The comparison of gay rights to black civil rights. Gays rights activists have long been drawing comparisons between gay rights and the plight of blacks in the 1950s/1960s and the Civil Rights movement. Yet, to my knowledge, few if any black civil rights leaders have acknowledged such parallels, and in at least one circumstance, denounced such comparisons. The fact is that blacks were denied the right to vote (never happened to gays), segregated by race (never happened to gays), denied access to the political process (considering Barney Frank and other gays in political office, this one is obvious), lynched (ok, violence against gays has happened, but the number of blacks lynched by white mobs overshadows the occassional murder of a gay person by one or two individuals). The fact is that gays are very organized politically, have access to property (many own businesses and are quite wealthy --- Elton John comes to mind), are educated (otherwise there would not be gay doctors and lawyers) and so on. The comparison between gay rights and black civil rights is bogus, to say the least.
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The great civilizations had homosexuality but Christianity came along and suppressed it. In a reference to the Greeks and Romans, who did indeed practice some form of homosexuality. But, comparing the homosexual practices of the Romans and Greeks to modern day homosexuality is not valid. Homosexuality in the Roman and Greek world was practiced by upper class men (in Greece the practice was confined to Athens), and no evidence exists of it being practiced by the common Roman or Greek. Furthermore, the practice of homosexuality was almost always between a man and a young boy and was considered part of his "coming of age". Homosexual relations between two boys or two men was considered shameful.
In short, the Romans and Greeks had institutionalized pedophilia. They also practiced slavery, and gladitorial combats to the death, I don't hear anyone arguing that we should revive those two institutions. Christianity came along and condemned the practice of pedophilia (as well as homosexuality, which in the case of most Romans and Greeks was a non sequitar), as well as condemned gladitorial combat (slavery, on the other hand was not, however, there is a lot of evidence that suggests that slaves actually held office in the early church.)
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