Throughout history, the major civilizations and major religions condemned homosexuality.¹ In the American colonies, homosexual acts were a capital offense. Thomas Jefferson said that homosexuality should "be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one-half inch in diameter at least."² Until 1961, homosexual acts were illegal throughout America. . . .

Homosexuals Die Young
Smokers and drug addicts don't live as long as non-smokers or non-addicts, so we consider smoking and narcotics abuse harmful. The typical lifespan of homosexuals suggests that their activities are more destructive than smoking and about as dangerous as drugs.

6,737 obituaries from 18 U.S. homosexual journals over the past 13 years were compared to a large sample of obituaries from regular newspapers.⁵ The obituaries from the regular newspapers were similar to U.S. averages for longevity: the median age of death of married, never-divorced men was 75 and 80% of them died old (age 65 or older). For unmarried or divorced men the median age of death was 57 and 32% of them died old. Married, never-divorced women averaged 79 at death; 85% died old. Unmarried and divorced women averaged age 71 and 60% of them died old.

The median age of death for homosexuals, however, was virtually the same nationwide - and, overall, about 2% survived to old age. If AIDS was the cause of death, the median age was 39. For the 829 gays who died of something other than AIDS, the median age of death was 42 and 9% died old. The 163 lesbians had a median age of death of 44 and 20% died old.

Even when AIDS was not involved, homosexuals frequently met an early demise. Three percent of gays died violently. They were 116 times more apt to be murdered, much more apt to commit suicide, and had high traffic-accident death-rates. Heart attacks, cancer and liver failure were exceptionally common. 18% of lesbians died of murder, suicide, or accidents - a rate 456 times higher than that of white females aged 25-44.⁵ Age distributions of samples of homosexuals in the scientific literature from 1858 to 1997 suggest a similarly shortened lifespan. . . .

The Gay Legacy
Homosexuals rode into the dawn of sexual freedom and returned with multiple plagues that may very well destroy most of them. Those who treat AIDS patients are at great risk, not only from HIV infection, which, as of 1996 involved about 200 health care workers,³² but also from TB and new strains of other diseases.³³ Those who are housed with AIDS patients are also at risk.³³

At least 8 new sexually transmitted germs were identified between 1980 and 1997.³⁸ Dr. Max Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, warned Congress in 1992 that "AIDS has already led to other kinds of dangerous epidemics. . . . If AIDS is not eliminated, other new lethal microbes will emerge, and neither safe sex nor drug free practices will prevent them."³⁹ At least 8, and perhaps as many as 30³⁹ patients had been infected with HIV by health care workers as of 1992 and the patient toll from dentists, nurses, and surgeons continues to mount.³³

The Biological Swapmeet
The typical sexual practices of homosexuals are a medical horror story - imagine exchanging saliva, feces, semen and/or blood with dozens of different men each year. Imagine drinking urine, ingesting feces and experiencing rectal trauma on a regular basis. Often these encounters occur while the participants are drunk, high, and/or in an orgy setting. Further, many of them occur in extremely unsanitary places (e.g., bathrooms, dirty peep shows), or, because homosexuals travel so frequently, in other parts of the world.

Every year, a quarter or more of homosexuals visit another country.^{34, 35} Fresh American germs get taken to Europe, Africa and Asia. And fresh pathogens from these continents come here. Foreign homosexuals regularly visit the U.S. and participate in this biological swapmeet.

Unfortunately the danger of these exchanges does not merely affect homosexuals. Travelers carried so many tropical diseases to New York City that it had to institute a tropical disease center, and gays carried HIV from New York City to the rest of the world.¹⁶ Most of the 12,642 Americans who got AIDS from contaminated blood as of 1997 received it from homosexuals and most of the women in California who got AIDS through heterosexual activity got it from men who engaged in homosexuality.³⁶

There is a pattern here that we ignore at our peril. Homosexual practices create a third-world level of sanitation and chronic disease unknown to most Westerners. With the rise of these new contagious diseases, homosexuality not only raises our medical costs, it increases the hazards of giving and getting medical care, receiving blood, and eating out.

Genuine Compassion
Society is legitimately concerned with health risks - they increase everyone's chance of illness and impact our taxes. Because we care about them, smokers are discouraged from smoking by higher insurance premiums, taxes on cigarettes, and bans against smoking in public. These social pressures cause many smokers to quit. They likewise encourage non-smokers to stay non-smokers.

Homosexuals are sexually troubled people engaging in dangerous activities. Because we care about homosexuals and those tempted to join them, it is important that we neither encourage nor legitimize such a destructive lifestyle.

References: 1) Karlen A Sexuality and Homosexuality NY: Norton, 1971. 2) Pines B Back to Basics NY: Morrow, 1982, p211. 5) Cameron et al The longevity of homosexuals Omega 1994;29:249-72. 16) Beral et al Risk of Kaposi's sarcoma and sexual practices associated with fecal contact in homosexual or bisexual men with AIDS Lancet 1992;339:938. 32) CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report December, 1996. 33) Dooley et all Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis in a hospital unit for HIV-infected patients J Amer Med Assn 1992;267:2632-35. 34) Biggar Low T-lymphocyte ratios in homosexual men J Amer Med Assn 1984;251:1441-46; Wall Street Jnl 7/18/91, B1. 35) Tveit Casual sexual experience abroad Genitourin Med 1994;70:12-14. 36) Chu et al AIDS in bisexual men in the US Amer J Pub Health 1992;82:220-24. 38) Wetzstein Washington Times 4/12/97. 39) Testimony before House Health & Environment Subcommittee 2/24/92.

Why are we condeming our men to death by legalising homosexuality, if it was something that they couldnt help then why are thousands coming out of homosexuality, but of course homosexuals are told that they are born this way and that this is it.. Our politicians and media do not tell the public that thousands are now coming out so one would have to wonder WHY..Could one of the reasons be that we are dumbed down by the threat of discrimination or rights..but when it comes to lives shouldnt our politicians and the medical profession  warn people of the consequences.