I've heard it is 3%
Personally I don't care what or who you sleep with, but don't ask to marry a sheep either. The Sanctity of Marriage is a union between a man and a woman with the intent on being exclusive and raising a family. It is no more a right than driving a car.
In the interest of debate, do you have any idea how many people are self-identified by the census as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered?
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I ask this because in some circles the assumption that gay people are everywhere simply is not true. This is not an excuse to victimize those who are gay, but within the rhetoric of the far Left political there's this underlying drumbeat of "we're all victims." Let's set things straight. Males still earn more than females. This means that a two male family earns far more than a two female family. So the problems of the married male gay couple are more social than economic. There's also the issue of the circuit of friends within the gay community. Gay men in positions of power are far more likely to hire their friends than straight managers of either gender due to fear of harrassment rules in the workplace. In some industries like design, graphic design, fashion, or many of the art dealerships and cosmetic firms, one gay male knowing another leads to jobs far more often than the usual method of job search and interview. This puts straight males at a disadvantage and puts all females regardless of preference at a disadvantage. Except during Gay Pride events, you will seldom see or hear gay males speak favorably of their female counterparts. It's a very strange social experiment. So, the gay rights advocates claim victimhood on parity with what minorities went through in the bad old days of repression. But really, when you see how economically and socially advantaged many gay males are, does that mean they are still victims? They certainly like to latch onto that idea for political, financial and social largesse. Once again, this is not an excuse to mistreat anyone,but the numbers estimated by many people of the gay community can be grossly out of line with reality.
So here's the big question. Knowing all that I've stated above, and I will admit this is the result of observation while working for two different gay owned and managed corporations and it's opinion based on what I experienced, do YOU know the actual numbers of self identified gay people in America? Guess first, then go read the attached article. I think you will be surprised, maybe even shocked.
So here's the big question. Knowing all that I've stated above, and I will admit this is the result of observation while working for two different gay owned and managed corporations and it's opinion based on what I experienced, do YOU know the actual numbers of self identified gay people in America? Guess first, then go read the attached article. I think you will be surprised, maybe even shocked.
Read More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/0...
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KCurtis 2012/06/09 14:50:28
Table 1: Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS by Category, FY 2007-FY 2012 (US $Billions)
Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Request Care $11.0 $11.7 $12.4 $13.2 $14.1 $14.9
Cash/ Housing $2.2 $2.3 $2.5 $2.6 $2.7 $2.7
Prevention $0.9 $0.9 $0.9 $0.9 $0.9 $1.0
Research $2.7 $2.7 $3.0 $2.7 $2.7 $2.8
Global $4.4 $5.9 $6.5 $6.6 $6.6 $6.9
Total $21.2 $23.4 $25.3 $26.2 $27.1 $28.4
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/70... - Cached
In addtion, the homosexual activity Africa hasn't been been evaluated. Africa is not as open about homosexuality as the US is, and it is doubtful that African HIV victims would admit to it. Your assertion that the vagina is the leading cause of HIV is laughable. HIV is an fragile virus. Even left out in the open air will degrade quickly. The reason that it gains access to the blood stream in homosexuals is that the anal canal tears easily so that the virus is provided an easy access to the blood stream. The vagina, which was designed for penetration is much less vulnerable to tears and access to the blood-stream.
With heterosexual sex, it is a matter of dosage of HIV. And a female is more apt to get HIV from intravenous drug use.
Case in point, the low population of HIV among exclusive lesbians.
http://www.emedicinehealth.co...
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MMWR
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
CDC
First Report of AIDS
Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1981, MMWR published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles (1 ). All of the men were described as “homosexuals”; two had died. Local clinicians and the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer stationed at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, prepared the report and submitted it
for MMWR publication in early May 1981. Before publication, MMWR editorial staff sent the submission to CDC experts in parasitic and sexually transmitted diseases. he editorial note that accompanied the published report stated that the case histories suggested a “cellular-immune dysfunction related tto a common exposure” and a “disease acquired through sexual contact.” The report prompted additional case
reports from New York City, San Francisco, and other cities. At about the same time, CDC’s investigation drug unit, the sole distributor of pentamidine, the therapy for PCP, began to receive requests fo...
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MMWR
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
CDC
First Report of AIDS
Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1981, MMWR published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles (1 ). All of the men were described as “homosexuals”; two had died. Local clinicians and the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer stationed at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, prepared the report and submitted it
for MMWR publication in early May 1981. Before publication, MMWR editorial staff sent the submission to CDC experts in parasitic and sexually transmitted diseases. he editorial note that accompanied the published report stated that the case histories suggested a “cellular-immune dysfunction related tto a common exposure” and a “disease acquired through sexual contact.” The report prompted additional case
reports from New York City, San Francisco, and other cities. At about the same time, CDC’s investigation drug unit, the sole distributor of pentamidine, the therapy for PCP, began to receive requests for the drug from physicians also to treat young men. In June 1981, CDC developed an investigative team to identify risk factors and to
develop a case definition for national surveillance. Within 18 months, epidemiologists conducted studies and prepared MMWR reports that identified all of the major risks factors for acquired immnodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In March 1983, CDC issued recommendations for prevention of sexual, drug-related, and occupational transmission based on these early epidemiologic studies and before the cause of the
new, unexplained illness was known. MMWR has published more than 400 reports about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS and remains a primary source of information about the epidemiology,
surveillance, prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and AIDS. This anniversary issue provides new reports on the epidemiologic features and impact of HIV/AIDS on communities in the United States and in other countries. A compilation of notable MMWR reports on HIV and AIDS is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ hiv_aids20.html. A video that includes interviews with participants in these first AIDS
investigations and reports and a video summary of each report in this issue is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr. Reference
1. CDC. Pneumocystis pneumonia — Los Angeles. MMWR 1981;30:250–2. June 1, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. 21 U.S.
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You see we have this little problem with Africa. Africaans might not be as truthful about who they are having sex with. That is one of the reasons we are going to stick with the United States facts of life. The second reason is that we are going to concern ourselves with the United States policy towards homosexuality. Africa is none of our business. The US is.
The first HIV patient in America was Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who was a homosexual, and who had had sex with a 2,500 men, and even after he was diagnosed, he refused to quit having sex. Neither did any of his 2,500 partners
Wikipedia.
Dugas is described as being a charming, handsome sexual athlete who, according to his own estimation, averaged hundreds of sex partners a year. He claims to have had over 2,500 sexual partners across North America since becoming sexually active in 1972.[3] In addition, Dugas was legally married in Los Angeles on June 27, 1977 in an illegal attempt to receive United States citizenship.
According to Snopes.com:
Dugas appeared to move between denial that whatever he had could be transmitted sexually ("Of course I'm going to have sex. Nobody's proven to me that you can spread cancer"), depraved indifference to his partners' wellbeing ("It's their duty to protect themselves. They know what's going on out there. They've heard about this disease"), and a desire to take others with him ("I've got gay cancer. I'm going to die and so are you").[4]
There is a reason that HIV infection has grown logarithmically, rather than linearly in the US.
The HIV epidemic in this country would have been obliterated in the 80s by just letting this terminal disease finish its course.
What with the first HIV patient, AKA patient 0, a Canadian homosexual having sex with 2500 men, and each of them sharing the same practices, HIV, which was originally termed the "gay disease" would have certainly reduced the practice of homosexuality to nil or very close to it, had there been on no federal funding policy at all.
Instead, Federal and state funding gave homosexuals a sense of entitlement and outrage of any resistance to their practices and subsequent dipping into their evergrowing source of public money. Homosexuals were outraged over the closings of bathhouses in San Francisco, in spite of the link to HIV. Since HIV is funded by public money, including mine, it was not too much to ask. However, homosexuals, full of their own since of entitlement took to the streets.
Americans, full of compassion, fell into line, aided by the fact that these homosexuals, who were having sex at the tune of roughly 2500 homosexual partners each, were spreading the disease into other communities. IV drug users and hemophilia patients.
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There is a reason that HIV infection has grown logarithmically, rather than linearly in the US.
The HIV epidemic in this country would have been obliterated in the 80s by just letting this terminal disease finish its course.
What with the first HIV patient, AKA patient 0, a Canadian homosexual having sex with 2500 men, and each of them sharing the same practices, HIV, which was originally termed the "gay disease" would have certainly reduced the practice of homosexuality to nil or very close to it, had there been on no federal funding policy at all.
Instead, Federal and state funding gave homosexuals a sense of entitlement and outrage of any resistance to their practices and subsequent dipping into their evergrowing source of public money. Homosexuals were outraged over the closings of bathhouses in San Francisco, in spite of the link to HIV. Since HIV is funded by public money, including mine, it was not too much to ask. However, homosexuals, full of their own since of entitlement took to the streets.
Americans, full of compassion, fell into line, aided by the fact that these homosexuals, who were having sex at the tune of roughly 2500 homosexual partners each, were spreading the disease into other communities. IV drug users and hemophilia patients.
Homosexuals couldn't be trusted to be truthful about blood products they were donating and or selling. That is one reason a unit of blood has increased. We still must continue to screen for HIV-1 and HIV-2 via EIA methods which screen for p24. However this has shortened the window period between infection and detection, but it has not closed it.
As an additonal outrage, PC bent politicians such as John Kerry, and my neice's lesbian teacher in LA are spouting off nonsense about the "discrimination" of rejecting homosexual donations of blood from practicing homosexuals. Both of these groups of people, should be imprisoned for practicing medicine without a license. But it isn't going to happen. Because Americans are determined to do themselves in with PC.
You've been protected, like a puling, wobbling toddler, from your own errors of logic.
Let me explain a few facts of logic and debate to you. Your only rebuttals in what I stated was utilizing, not one, but two fallacious arguments. You are attempting to appeal to my sense of pity. Because I am supposed to pity the victims of HIV, therefore, I must not suggest that HIV should not have been funded by federal and state dollars. This fallacious logic is called Appeal to Pity, AKA argumentum ad misericordiam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam)[1] is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion.
Second of all, you are attacking my character rather than my assertions. This is a fallacious logical error called an argumentum ad hominem.
Why don't you just go ahead and stick your tongue out at me, as well. That would help you win cases in federal courts too, with many of these judges. They like the behavior of five-year-olds.
Like I said, you aren't under the sympathetic wings of a tender activist federal judge on SH.
Ahaaaaaaaa! I haven't hadn't to deal with any facts that fit into my preconceived prejudices, or bias for that matter.
You certainly haven't presented me with any new facts or evidence. And I have already been presented with the facts that homosexuals hate me. I have already been presented with argumentum ad misericordiam responses, and I have already been presented with argumentum ad hominem responses. I have also already been presented with foul language responses. I've also been presented with the block response.
if that is all you've got, then I'm probably not going to feel that sorry for myself. By the way. last week, I processed a unit of blood on a full-blown AIDS victim, with pancytopenia. He was less than 30-years-old. I feel sorry for him because he was lied to.