[quote]otar wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
ZEB wrote:
It has been proven over and over again that the biggest enemy of homosexual men is their own poor choices. There is no one who can dispute that it is a fact.
I would like peer-reviewed sources on this. Because this smells like Billy Bullshit to me.[/quote]
I actually don’t blame you for your lack of awareness on this issue. If I had listened to the main stream liberal media I would be thinking the same thing.
Here is something better than what you’ve asked for. Here are the facts from the CDC.
It isn’t pretty.
MSM (men who have sex with men) account for nearly half of the approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV in the US.
MSM account for more than half of all new HIV infections in in the US (61%).
The list goes on and on…It’s a very sad story. Homosexual promiscuity has lead them to not only ill physical health but a poor mental state as well leading every group in suicide, anxiety and depression.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/fastfacts-msm-final508comp.pdf
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Do you believe that people who are homosexual are INNATELY driven to behave this way?
Do you believe that every homosexual man who have “suicide, anxiety and depression” is because of their “promiscuity”? Do you believe that every homosexual man who suffers from depression is promiscuous, rather than prejudice against them.
I’m not denying your statistics. There’s FAR FAR more to it than that though.
Because although I am aware of minority of homosexual men who engage in such deplorable behaviour, it’s far from the norm. [/quote]
I agree that behavior is more of the minority. People like ZEB seem to base their information on the negative stereotypical views and only research facts that align with those beliefs.[/quote]
No actually people like Zeb have taken the time to study the issue and have the facts at hand. That those facts do not represent your false belief shouldn’t bother you nearly so much as walking around with that false belief.
Now google CDC (and there are other sites as well) and get the facts on what, not all, but the majority of homosexual men do.
It isn’t pretty and you won’t see it or hear it in the mainstream liberal media but it is nonetheless true.
Now run along…[/quote]
It doesn’t really work when you ignore other parts of the source that directly contradict what you were saying. “Social discrimination and cultural issues: For some MSM, social and economic factors, including homophobia, stigma, and lack of access to health care may increase risk behaviors or be a barrier to receiving HIV prevention services.” I’m sure the highly trained epidemiologists at the CDC chose to include that in their fact sheet for a reason.[/quote]
I don’t doubt for a second that any hate directed at this group adds to their problems in various ways. However, the fact that suicide rates for homosexuals are just as high in the Netherlands where homosexuality has been accepted for many years speaks to the heart of the issue. There is a lifestyle of pain and poor choices that is at the heart of the matter.