[Skybird]

That list of statistics is for the most pretty much questionable if not useless since the claim's content can be interpreted in two directions, or the data simply are questionable in some other claims.

Just a few examples, I doubt that so many suicides are attributed to gays, but that the rate amongst gays may be higher indeed is no surprise - considering the immense social pressure and discrimination they are being put under in many local regions of this world. It's like saying the rate of men in the death cell who die from violant force implemented on them is close to 100%. Or "On April 25, 2001, the CDC reported that “We are seeing substantial increases in sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men in multiple locations across this country.” Well, that answers it - the problem more likely is polygamy and too diverse and too many sexual contacts. Surprisignly, the suxually transmitted deseasaes amongst heterosexual people increase too the more often they chnage their sexual partners - wowh! "• 41% of homosexual men say they have had sex with strangers in public restrooms, 60% say they have had sex with strangers in bathhouses, and 64% of these encounters have involved the use of illegal drugs (8). " Well, heterocouples and one-night-stands surely do not do that. "• 25-33% of homosexual men and lesbians are alcoholics (11)." The rate amongst doctors and top managers is estimated to be even higher. the use of cocain is widespread amongst these. " Sperm readily penetrates the anal wall (which is only one cell thick) and gains direct access to the blood stream. This causes massive immunological damage to the body’s T- and B-cell defensive systems (14). " That is true, but then you must crusade against hetero couples practcing it as well. And condoms seem to be a good idea anyway, no matter your sexual orientation "• Homosexual men got homosexuality removed from the list of mental illnesses in the early 70s by storming the annual American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference on successive years. “Guerrilla theater tactics and more straight-forward shouting matches characterized their presence” (2). Since homosexuality has been removed from the APA list of mental illnesses, so has pedophilia (except when the adult feels “subjective distress”) (27)." Well, that one I know from my former psychological profession, and the twist the author tries to give it here is absurd. In america, many things make people yell and shout hysterically, especi8ally relgious demosntrations pro or against abortion, death penalty, gunlaws, missionising, and sexual prudery. The social pressure and voices to abandon this idea of homosexuality being mental desease came from ALL levels and camps of society, amybe exceopt the relgious right, and followed a trend that doctors and psychiatrists on an international level already had formed.

But it is too long a list as if i would bother to do it one by one with all items now. Lists like this exist by the hundreds on the internet, many of them in blogs and forums of websites that have heavily biased (= attached to the Christian right and/or political right) tendencies. Uncritically pasteing and copying them without ever questiuoning their content and background and the way the supposed scientific data they pretend to give in shining glory has been won and created, is not really helpful.

Gays are like they are, and if they do not bother others with their characteristics, others must not bother about them. Just this talk of gay marriages and "gay pride" annoys me, like some stupid gay parade as well. there is as much reason to be proud to be gay as there is reason to be proud to be heterosexual. Else, what's next? People like me getting hanged in the streets for the sacrileg of wearing classes, for only gods are allowed to wear glasses in some man-caring mind's sick imagination?