Thread: Gay rights?
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Old 05-23-2005, 09:35 PM   #98
shadowfyr
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Hmm. Lets see:

Health - Probably not. Gay or straight, its the presense of a disease that is a problem, not 'who' is exposed. However, the CDC has stated that nudity is actualy a slightly lower risk to disease transfer, since diseases don't survive sunlight or exposure to dry and/or cold environments and clothes provide dark, warmth and moisture (sweat), yet you won't find one person arguing for the 'healthy' nature of nudity, unless its a nudist. Same with homosexuality. Its benefit is lack of pregnacy, which is definitely also a health issue, so 'could' by a bit of a stretch be considered 'safer'. But definitely a stretch. What is true is that there is a lot of inuendo, but no evidence of 'any' greater health risk, aside from that arising from promiscuity, which those trying to enter into civil unions are either not interesting in or willing to give up.

Child health - Bad idea to argue this. Every study every done so far suggests that if anything homosexuals are 'more' dedicated to and empathic with the needs of children they raise. It might actually be a major boon to be raised by one.

Psychological - Same as child health to some extent. The anti-gay crowd screams about exposure to them 'turning' people gay and even claims they conspire to convert people. Again, every study in existance indicates that children raised among them have no higher a percentage of homosexuality than society in general. I'll repeat that, all these horrible conspiring gays are failing to convert any more people to it than would already have shown the behaviour, to word it so the loony right wingers comprehend it. Note, I didn't say 'believe' it, just understand it.

Hmm. What's left? Gross out factor? Maybe for two men together, but most males would have no problem with two girls they know involving themselves with each other, while he watched. lol Double standard at its best. That pretty much 'only' leaves religion. Unfortunately, Christianity and Islam are still edging out all the 'sane' ones by at least a slight margin:



Yep, I would love to hear about the 'legal', 'medical', etc. reasons, without finding out that the author claiming them pulled the whole article out of religious propoganda, pseudo scientific groups like the Discovery Institute or his own ass.
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