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No 'coming out party' for gays in the military
By Marsha West

 
CDC report accurate, but ignores truth
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released some startling statistics on homosexuality and HIV.
 
The study, announced Thursday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found one in five active homosexual and bisexual men is infected with HIV -- and nearly half of those infected do not know it. The study is considered the largest to look at urban homosexual and bisexual men at high risk for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. 
 
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, comments on how the government agency's study reflects accuracy -- but ignores the truth.
 
"This is just the latest study showing the incredible health risks of men who have sex with men. Homosexuality is a very dangerous lifestyle, especially for men," he points out. "And yet the CDC  will not do the one basic thing that it can do to really limit it -- which is to do everything it can to teach men not to have sex with other men." 
Three days later CNSNews.com reports:

Health Care Law Includes Millions of Dollars for HIV/AIDS Prevention
The physician who oversees prevention of sexually transmitted diseases for the federal Centers for Disease Control said the funding announced on Friday will support "innovative, evidence-based, and high-impact prevention efforts."
 
The CNS News story informs us how our hard earned tax dollars will be spent:"This funding will give a critical boost to our HIV/AIDS prevention efforts across the country," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "By focusing on communities and geographic areas that have been hardest hit by this disease, these critical investments will make a real impact on prevention efforts -- a key part of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy."
 
Kevin Fenton, the physician who oversees prevention of sexually transmitted diseases for the federal Centers for Disease Control, said the funding announced on Friday will support "innovative, evidence-based, and high-impact prevention efforts."
 
The Food and Drug Administration - in a brochure on condoms and sexually transmitted diseases - was able to sum up prevention strategies in three sentences: It says the surest way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, is either to abstain from sex altogether; limit sex to one monogamous  partner; and/or use condoms correctly.
 
According to the FDA, about two-thirds of the people with AIDS in the United States got the disease during sexual intercourse with an infected partner. "Experts believe that many of these people could have avoided the disease by using condoms," the brochure says.

They didn't use a condom because "barebacking" is once again in vogue.  Why? Because the gay community has the mistaken idea that HIV/AIDS is curable and if they get it it's manageable.   According to "southern gay writer" Chris Rudisill: 
 
"A quick search of some adult blogs and you will quickly find many from self-identified "bug-catchers" who glorify how many times they've had unprotected sex. While the sites may provide fantasy for some, they can also provide fuel, especially to the raging young man who is seeking that risk factor and excitement in his sex life. … From 2001 to 2006, the number of new HIV diagnoses in men younger than 30 who had sex with other men increased by 33 percent, according to city health officials in New York City, which has the highest rate of HIV infection in the country. The most shocking news was that the group with the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection was made up of men between the ages of 13 and 19, for "whom HIV diagnoses doubled between 2001 and 2006," according to preliminary data from the city's Department of Heath and Mental Hygiene." 
 
The average age for enlistment in the military is 19.5.

Now more from the article that appeared in One News Now:

But according to LaBarbera, there are those at the CDC and in Congress who will use the study for another purpose -- which he points out has failed. "...They will use this to say we need greater awareness programs for men who have sex with men," he predicts."
 
LaBarbera's prediction was right on the money.  And speaking of money, the American taxpayers will have to spend billions on a preventable disease.  As LaBarbera reminds us:

"They're telling men to get tested every 3 to 6 months -- [but] when you're living a lifestyle which requires you to get tested for a very serious, even life-threatening disease, every 3 to 6 months, the real message that our government should be giving these men is 'don't practice this lifestyle.'"

All the PC do-gooders who insist that the military accept homosexuals, despite the health risks, should at the very least consider the financial cost to taxpayers.  The CDCs study makes it clear that "gay" sex is unsafe. 
 
One last comment.  In our PC society gone mad, we worry far more about the rights of homosexuals and bisexuals than about the rights of heterosexual military personnel.   
 
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Copyright by Marsha West, 2010.  All rights reserved.

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