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Up 12% Among Gay/Bisexual Men; 7th-Straight Year Of Increases After Being Nearly Eliminated

[newsterl]

So, since the heritage foundation publishes a right wing web site and promotes conservative family values (code for right wing) and their material includes renowned climate change skeptics Patrick Michaels, Sallie Baliunas, Thomas Gale Moore, Robert Balling, and Fred Singer, would we expect ANYTHING less from them than total condemnation of anything other than what they want to believe and put out for consumption?

They publish material by climate SKEPTICS, who I guess cant see the sat images and obvious proof of whats happening to the ice and climate- the CAUSE is up for grabs and doesnt matter, the fact is, it IS happening and the heritage foundation publishes the skeptic''s words.
I invalidate their article purportedly linking teen s3x to depression and suicide as bogus and biased.

[newsterl]

Gaye5, as far as the SOURCE of that article you posted about claiming connections between teen s3x and depression, a little look see on the authors and the group who published that says THIS;

FACTSHEET: HERITAGE FOUNDATION

One of the oldest and most influencial conservative think tanks, the Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense"

The Heritage Foundation covers a wide variety of policy issues - the environment and global warming amongst them. Heritage was a fervent opponent of the Kyoto protocol. It runs a searchable online database of "policy experts" (www.policyexperts.org) which includes renowned climate change skeptics Patrick Michaels, Sallie Baliunas, Thomas Gale Moore, Robert Balling, and Fred Singer. The Heritage Foundation historically has had considerable influence over Republican politicians. It is estimated that two-thirds of the policy recommendations it made in 1981 were adopted by the Reagan Administration (Greenpeace Guide, 1993). Heritage is a former member of the Cooler Heads Coalition and started the State Policy Network as a way to promote conservative policies at the state level. It also runs the right-wing news website Townhall.com

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Their article is totally BIASED towards abstinence only, conservative, bible views.

[newsterl]

I cant do it here, but I am well aware of many documents and video clips not only of same-*** matings between animals such as 2 Donkeys taking turns, but inter-species attempts as well a dog and a sow, a tiger and a dog, and many more. There was also the documented study of the rams who were called ''g@y rams'' that ranchers complained about;

Yep, They''re Gay - TIME
PETA claims that researchers in Oregon are killing gay sheep and cutting open their brains in order to learn how to turn gay rams straight
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582336,00.html

"G@y Sheep" Study Offers Intriguing Prenatal Hormonal Link
Intrigued by this anomaly, the scientists dissected the "g@y" rams'' brains and found that their hypothalamus was female-like in size.
www.narth.com/docs/sheep.html

"sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide
by Robert E. Rector"

Gaye5; I dont buy that due to the built-in bias, most teens ARE active and depression is epidemic across the board, it has more to do with population pressures, economy, broken homes and all that. This ''link'' is no more valid than saying teens who use ipods are 75% more likely to be depressed- the two may not have anything to do with one another at all.

[newsterl]

"licking around the [Azz] and thus taking in fecal matter without it causing problems it is called rimming and many other things."

I know what its called, and I cant fathom why anyone would to have any contact with fecal matter, urine, vomit, saliva, etc but this is not limited to g@ys!

"Many homosexuals who have come out of homosexuality and are now leading normal lives say that it is a choice not something that they couldnt help."

This is largely a myth that prayer, or what ever converted a g@y into straight, Ive seen the reports, but the issue is those who claim they converted were probably not g@y but were *BI* so all they did was ''shut off'' a portion of orientation

"and as for the gene theory it was two homosexuals who found that... and there has been no follow up on it and there was no referees...

Posted by Gaye5"

[newsterl]

In 2003, the rate of new AIDS cases for black women was 20 times that of white women and five times greater than the infection rate for Latinas, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black and Hispanic women accounted for 77 percent of all new AIDS infections in 1994. Nine years later, the rate was 85 percent, according to the agency.

That same year, black and Hispanic women made up 83 percent of reported AIDS diagnoses among women, although they represent only 25 percent of all women, according to Fraser-Howze''s New York-based commission. AIDS is among the three top causes of death for black women ages 35 to 44.

In the District, black women represent 90 percent of women living with AIDS while making up only 62 percent of all women in the city

[newsterl]

By comparison;

According to the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) there are just short of 40,000 new HIV cases in the US each year. (2005)

Its also not just g@y men the increase, read this and see where the problem IS, its CLEAR;

U.S. HIV Cases Soaring Among Black Women (washingtonpost.com)
Feb 7, 2005
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3318-2005Feb6.html

He was, Precious Jackson said, a very fine black man. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall with an almond-milk complexion, dreamy dark eyes and a deep voice. During their nearly two years together in Los Angeles, he was the sunshine of her life, even though he had a habit of landing in jail and refused to use a condom when they made love.

"I didnt ask him any questions," Jackson said in a recent interview. "I didn''t ask him about his sexual history. I asked him if he had been tested, and he said one test came back positive but another one came back negative. I was excited to have this man in my life, because I felt I needed this man to validate who I was.

Black neighborhoods, they say, are more likely to be plagued by joblessness, poverty, drug use and a high ratio of women to men, a significant portion of whom cycle in and out of a prison system where the rate of HIV infection is estimated to be as much as 10 times higher than in the general population.

[nothappyatall]

Gaye5;
If you look back in the more recent history, to ''Typhoid Mary'' who started a huge epidemic that was traced across her trip East to West coast, she worked handling food, thats how it was spread.
Polio epidemic, Small,Pox, black plague etc epidemics killed millions, so did/does many water borne illnesses- dysentery, malaria and so on. The common FLU is also a killer;

Simonsen et al. estimated that influenza caused approximately 21,000 deaths per year in the United States for the period 1972%u20131992.
In a recent paper, Thompson et al. (11Go) introduced a new approach for estimating deaths attributable to influenza: They fit a regression model to death time series that combined a sinusoidal function with weekly virologic surveillance data from the United States. They attributed an average of 34,000 deaths per year to influenza for the period 1976%u20131999, consistent with the 37,500 deaths per year estimated by Serfling-type models for this period.

[gaye5]

Young people creating a scandal over *** has been a problem since the beginning of time. But the last few decades may be the first time in our country''s history that our adult institutions, instead of trying to keep the young on the strait and narrow path, have taken it as their mission to help kids leap headlong into the abyss.
This below alone should make us think twice about how we stop this problem..
The Heritage Foundation has published a new study showing a link between sexual activity and depression among teenagers. The news isn''t good. For sexually active girls age fourteen to seventeen, the rates of depression (which the study''s authors define as "unhappiness," not clinical depression) are more than three times higher than for those who have not been sexually active. Sexually active boys "are more than twice as likely to be depressed as are those who are not sexually active." And both boys and girls who have been sexually active are more likely to commit suicide.
Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide
by Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Lauren R. Noyes
Center for Data Analysis Report #03-04

[gaye5]

CBS NEWS..
Chlamydia Cases In U.S. On The Rise
More Than 1 Million Cases In 2006 Sets Record; Rates Of Other STDs Also Up
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(AP) More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year, the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.

"A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after hitting a record low, and an increasing number of cases are caused by a "superbug" version resistant to common antibiotics, federal officials said Tuesday.

[gaye5]

newster1, of course it has been a failure, look at what these kids are seeing on TV, and we have an ever increasing number of stupid parents who give their kids their own TV and whose kids watch without supervision all sorts of things for hrs into the morning..Violence, drugs, *** etc is about all they see for hrs a night.. a few minute session on dont do it wont help, it has to come from responsible producers and change what is on tv, warn the kids in these shows not promote ***, violence. If TV didnt have any effect on people then why do advertising companies spend billions on few second adds???
But in having said that I have also heard that I have heard that this type of teaching does work..
"Love waits. Lust wants...... Love can''t wait to give. Lust can''t wait to take........ love mends. Lust hurts...... Love is secure. Lust is selfish......... Love is understanding, Lust doesnt care........Love brings respect, Lust brings shame.......Love lasts, Lust ends Purity.

[gaye5]

I think that it is about time that people knew what homesexuals to.. and also one cannot go licking around the *** and thus taking in fecal matter without it causing problems... it is called rimming.. and many other things.
Many homosexuals who have come out of homosexuality and are now leading normal lives say that it is a choice not something that they couldnt help. and as for the gene theory it was two homosexuals who found that... and there has been no follow up on it and there was no referees...

[gaye5]

newster1, in South African, *** is something that is not just *** with *** but *** with anyone and anything.. The poor women dont know where the male had been...
And newsterl, you are dead right, from my reading it was as you said, land squabbles, power quests to conquor,overpopulation and crowding.... along with greed, hate, racial problems. we continually get told that it was RELIGION which caused the collapse, but religion was not the main cause, it was of course part of their lives but not the cause of the decline.. and it appears that along with this was moral decay..

[nothappyatall]

You need to get away from the right wing domintated US news are read elsewhere.
THEN you would learn South African hetero FEMALES are the largest growth group with HIV, NOT g@y men!

HIV started in AFRICA, Africa is one of the worst crowding, poorest sanitation, poorest medical care countries around, all kinds of diseases start there.

BBC NEWS S Africa has ''fastest'' ARV growth
South Africa''s government says nearly a quarter of a million HIV positive people are now receiving anti-retroviral ... S Africa has ''fastest'' ARV growth ...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6144540.stm

HIV prevalence rate and population density: Eastern Cape ...
The HIV prevalence in South Africa has increased considerably from below 1% in 1991 to over 22% in 1998. South Africa has one of the fastest HIV growth ...
gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102237973.html

Positive outcomes: the chances of acquiring HIV/AIDS during the ...
The HIV rates among the age group 15-19 in the Eastern Cape are now among the fastest HIV growth rates in the world. Interventions include single s3x ...
hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=3437_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

[nothappyatall]

Throughout history the collapse of any and every great nation was the precedence of the decline in moral values
Maxify55

Sorry to burst your bibull bubble but it had nothing to do with ''moral'' values and everything to do with religious conflicts & other wars eating up huge amounts of resources- young men killing each other, overuse and destruction of supplies and funds

It also had a lot to do with land squabbles, power quests to conquor and take property, and then overpopulation and crowding which always brings disease no matter whether its people or rats, and it wasnt till 100 years ago that society even really had MEDICAL science- anaesthesia, surgery to fix defects, transplants etc
In the civil war many died from loss of blood, infections that today can be cured with antibiotics and clean- most of this they didn''t understand back then- they didn''t even have XRAYS or scans to diagnose.
The people also lived in crowded cities full of highly combustible houses, depending on where you look- made of wood and straw thatch roofs, using fire for light because there was no electric back then, horses were also bedded with straw so this was all over the place.

Chicago burned down as did NYC and every other major city as recent as the mid 19th century- from kerosene lamps or other accidents igniting straw or wood, no fire department, no water mains

Every species that outstrips its range and becomes too crowded has a population crash from diseases, infections or starvation

[DaveGress]

maxify55 - you could be right, but I think it just a general ignorance of life rather than an moral dilemma. If you mean human moral''s then fine, but any religious based morals I''m not on board with. One doesn''t have to be religious to have high morals one simply has to have a brain and use it.

[nothappyatall]

"I believe it will positively impact the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, [zoo] and trans-gendered community". So I think we should give GLBT more support and... "
julialily

You left out zoo''s!

African FEMALE HETEROSEXUALS are the fastest growing hiv positive group today, its NOT a g@y disease- its a human transmitted to human disease, and you think people like that hooker the NY Gov was paying $4300 an hour for would use protection?

[nothappyatall]

Abstinence only education ala BUSH has been a billion dollar FAILURE.

7th year of increase, up 12%, welll... the human population has ALSO increased in 7 years too, so it makes perfect sense eveything else has increased too.

[nothappyatall]

"Well,whadya know,more proof that homosexuality is unhealthy and all around bad for you. Where are all the horn tooting sexual deviant posters today? Hiding in the corner with no comments no doubt."
Posted by jerkaboner"

S3x with other HUMANS is bad for you, it also results in unwanted pregnancy. As the other story about 1 in 4 teen GIRLS having an STD tells us- people are DIRTY
Funny that zoophilia carries no such risk of HIV, AIDS, Ghonnorea, VD, chalmidia or any of the dozens of human to human STD''s. I never once caught anything from an animal, and vice-versa, I''ll stick to animals thank you, and pass on the condumbs too.

[hypnotoad72]

You''''d think gay men would be wearing condoms to protect themselves against HIV. They should be required to wear condoms since the govt/taxpayers end up paying the 10K-20K per month for HIV drugs to keep them alive after they''''re infected.

Posted by standlee5
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Do you have proof of that?

Don''t get me wrong; for all their chants of wanting "equality", how many truly want to walk the talk? Even some of their own publications (used to) put out articles asking the very question. It''s okay for them to ask themselves, but anyone looking from the outside in -- well, that''s homophobia and not allowed. Odd.

And, yeah, it''s genuinely tragic some people would throw away their lives by contracting the disease; a disease of choice. Either by accident, a cheating "lover", or deliberately asking (the latter happens too...)

[hypnotoad72]

DEAR MADAM OR SIR,
THIS BAD DISEASE IS NOT FOUND IN INDIA. WHY DON''T YOU VISIT THE LAND OF OPPORTUBITIES AND SETTLE THERE?

Posted by WinnerIndia
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1. Don''t shout. Are you a toddler?

2. Write as if you''re not a toddler; including obvious spelling issues. It''s "opportunities".