If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13
This is No Joke - AIDS KILLS
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An official with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the
CDC's estimate Monday that in the United States AIDS is fifty times
more prevalent among men who have sex with men ('MSM') than the rest of
the population. Dr. Amy Lansky revealed this statistic during a
plenary session at the 2009 HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta.
The CDC had already revealed last year that approximately 53% of the
estimated 56,300 new HIV cases in 2006 were in homosexual men, with the
African American population being particularly affected.
The new statistics, however, estimate the prevalence of HIV/AIDS
relative to the homosexual population, which allows comparisons to
other groups in the wider population. Because of the difficulty
of determining the homosexual population, the CDC had to
estimate. Based on a variety of national surveys, they based
their statistics on the median estimate that homosexual men constitute
4 percent of the overall male population, reports RH Reality Check.
According to Dr. Lansky, then, based on the 4 percent figure, the CDC
estimates that in 2007 there were 692.2 new HIV cases per 100,000
homosexual men - or fifty times more cases than the rest of the
population.
While merely an approximation, the CDC's announcement confirms previous
statistics and studies that indicate vastly disproportionate occurrence
of sex-related diseases in homosexuals. According toa February
2007 study, for example, homosexual men with HIV are 90 times more
likely to develop anal cancer than the rest of the population.
Earlier this year, as another example, the Centers for Disease Control
released a statistical report indicating that homosexual men made up 65
percent of the reported primary and secondary syphilis cases in
2007. A report from the Public Health Agency of Canada in 2006
revealed that 51 percent of people infected with HIV in the country
were homosexual men.
In fact, the statistics on HIV/AIDS led one group, the Los Angeles Gay
and Lesbian Center, to state in 2006 that HIV/AIDS is a "gay disease,"
in a billboard ad campaign geared to reducing rates of HIV infection.
While homosexualists have actively suppressed such statistics in the
past and focused on portraying HIV/AIDS as a disease affecting the
whole population in an equal fashion, the statistics' increasing
undeniability has forced their hand. Rather than admit any
inherent problem with homosexual practice itself, however, the apparent
prevalence of disease among practicing homosexuals has led them to
switch tactics and use these statistics to urge governments and other
organizations to increase support to the homosexual communities.
Asking why it has taken so long for the CDC to make its estimate about
the high prevalence of AIDS among homosexual men, homosexual activist
Dr. Senterfitt chalked it up to 'homophobia'. "Seems clear to
me," he says, "that this was at least an indirect effect of the
pervasive homophobia still affecting much of government, public policy,
media and societal norms in this country."
"We must fight for funding and adequate social investment to end
HIV/AIDS wherever it continues to persist and thrive," he argues,
"which is almost always where concentrated social injustice also
thrives."
Pro-family advocates, on the other hand, maintain that the prevalence
of sex-related diseases among homosexuals is clear evidence of the
disorder of homosexual practice. For example, in a commentary for
LifeSiteNews.com published last year, J. Matt Barber stated, "By
recently admitting that 'HIV is a gay disease,' Matt Foreman, outgoing
Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
acknowledged what the medical community has known for decades: the
homosexual lifestyle is extremely high-risk and often leads to disease
and even death."
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