A New ‘Gay Disease’?

One would think the media was now run buy the religious right anymore. Now that the story is already out that MRSA is a gay disease (even though it is in correct), you can count on the story to fuel even more homophobia. You can now count on every Evangelical preacher and every anit-gay media to continue to spread the lie. And people will buy it because they need a reason to hate.

1) DON'T JUDGE - you have no right. I'm a straight woman strong in my own faith. I also have a clear understadning that the foundational premise of what we call christianity is love, grace, and acceptance - not judgement. Not your place nor mine.

2) WHAT THE HELL IS NORMAL?? Normal is whatever you do with your partner. Whatever someone does with theirs is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

3) JOURNALISM? These headlines and reporting could only be considered jopurnalism in 1940. What it has done instead is put an entire population at risk for not understanding the truth about this bacteria - it's already everywhere, has been for a long time, and truly does not care about the sexual orientation of its host - and brought scrutiny upon a VERY SMALL minority of people. I think you will find that comparing raw numbers vs. percentages per capita, more heterosexual adults and children will be carriers - so where did this really come from?

In response to the below comment: Saying that it is God's way of punishing the gays is like saying Cancer is God's way of punishing the rest of you. Ignorance and hate are not taught in the bible, but yet are practiced every day by people like the below.

please don't try to bring your homophobia here, because it is really quite offensive. To answer your question, observer101, homosexuals tend to hide themselves because of people like you, pushing their insecurities and hatred toward people who don't deserve it. It IS a natural occurrence, and if people like you just learned to DEAL with it, then they wouldn't have to hide away and feel dirty and ashamed because of what YOU think.

You know what is good about this disease; that is can and will infect everyone. It's been a "Gay issue" or the "freaks in S.F." are at fault. Well this is what you all deserve for being so arrogant that this is not your problem and it will go away as soon as those gays all die off or are institutionalize like the idiot Geminate states. Geminate chooses to be arrogant with his Holier than thou attitude. Shouldn't we ignore his statement because he is an idiot or honor it by acknowledging it?

@trasher32: Sorry, this thing wouldn't put the whole thing in one post.
part 1
What I said originally is that it's in congruent to say that you support gay rights and then proceed to say something like 'get your garbage out of my face'. One of the rights you claim to defend is the right to be respected and I don't think the choice of words in your original post quite does it.

And still you have failed to come up with evidence to support your argument. You label homosexuality as a genetic error. You should realize a genetic error can not be 'wrong/morally reprehensible' since there was no volition involved. (That was the intention of my original race comment, not to label you as racist) Unnatural? How? As long as there are humans there have been and there will be homosexuals, men and women who are attracted to people of their own gender. It's part of human nature. Not to mention animals do it, too.

part 2

From that perspective, homosexuality is as abnormal and unnatural as masturbation or oral sex so I guess we live in a pretty 'wrong,unnatural' country. It is not wrong the fact men or women fall in love with each other doesn't cause a damage to society. How is that garbage? And as far as most people in the US finding it repulsive forever, well, I don't know where you got those stats, but either way I know there's a lot of food that's very unpopular yet good for you. It's a social convention doesn't hold up to space and time unless your morality is so relative you find it wrong to be gay here in the US (cause most people find it repulsive) but not in Netherlands or Sweden. So how is homosexuality 'an aberration'?

I say you should try to construct your arguments better because saying "IT'S NOT NORMAL TO BE GAY. HELLO!! " just doesn't cut it.

If you're really concerned about the amount of 'immorality' stemming from the gay world, then here's a way to help: try to be more thoughtful and empathic. I can't show you enough studies that show connection between addiction and social abuse. You can be more helpful than you think if you and at least try to be more respectful with your language, which you should admit you were not.

Sorry, this wouldn't all fit in one post...

* As for your last paragraph, it's been my observation that every gay man that I have ever met personally has dealt with severe addiction and promiscuity problems. On the other hand, most of the lesbians that I know or have known do not seem to have the same issues. I have NEVER met a "Will-and'Grace" gay man, I'm sure they're out there, but all of the gay men I have ever met have held up the promiscuous druggie stereotype quite well, which does not do much for your movement. I'd be willing to say that if all gay men were single-partner, drug free, normal acting people, then there would be a lot more acceptance of gays by society in general.

Finally, I do feel bad for gay people because of the way that they are treated in the world. I hope you can see that I really am for treating everyone with respect and dignity, that I get along fine with gays, both men and women, and that I believe that everyone alive has a right to exist and to be happy and productive. I understand what you're saying when you tell me it sucks having to deal with being gay and all the scorn and looking down upon that it entails. My sympathies are with you, and I support your rights to be whomever you want to be and to choose the lifestyle you want. I will always support basic human rights for everyone regardless of their orientation, gender, religion, or political affilliation.

I'm not trying to bash gays or insult anyone, although I can see how my opinion would be offensive to gay people, and I'm sorry for that, but if you want honesty on the subject I have given it to you.

Heh, where do you people come from? I'm glad that wherever you are it's not next to me (and I'm not talking about the gays posting in here.) Rabid idiocy is apparently more contagious than MRSA. To observer101, you know so much about homosexuality (the nature of teenage choices, etc.), you must have had a choice yourself. I admire your bravery in admitting your bisexuality in such a public forum.

The last I knew only bisexuals had a choice.

Thrasher, do you think any sane parent raises their kids to be gay?

"While Johnny is growing up, I want him to look around at all the adults saying people like him should burn in hell and feel like killing himself. After all, a dead kid is better than a gay kid. If he survives his adolescence, I want him to face ignorance in his day to day life, tasteless jokes, discimination, idiots who think that orientation is only about sex, and churches slamming their doors in his face. That's how I want my kid to grow up."

Guess again. Since straight people do the majority of the breeding (Geminate pointed that out to us), who do you think gay kids are born to? If it's a question of nurture over nature, how about we sterilize these unfit heterosexual parents and stone them in the town square (if we're going to be shipping the kids off to "camps" to fix them, we'd better look to the source of the "problem" too. Unfit parents raise unfit kids.)

If it's a question of nature, then the animal species in which homosexuality occurs (all of the primate species, dolphins and whales, birds) are obsviously also flawed. What "evolutionary" benefit could possibly exist from having healthy, non-reproducing adults providing extra food and nurturing to the young of the group (since they have extra, not having any young of their own to raise)? Oh, wait.

Back to the general hatred in here, guess what group of young people has the highest suicide rate in the country? Two words ... "gay teens" "Thank Jesus", as Fred Phelps would say. "One more dead *** is God's will." Even if it's your child? Or your niece? Or your nephew?

Are you still so righteous?

But I guess most of the critics in here know all this through their vast experience. Thanks for enlightening the rest of us. I can't wait to read the next wisdom that seeps from your fingertips. If it's as deep and probing (pun intended for those of you who are anal-obsesed) as what you've shared so far, no doubt Western civilization requires every syllable for its survival.

Blech.

Go watch Jerry Springer. I'm done in here. :)

-Joe G.

it's a pity you cranky Yanks don't spend a bit more time looking at your own lifestyle and a bit less complaining about other peoples, great nation the US! your a joke around the world, every other country thinks you just a bunch of no hopers.
if you dug your nose out of a fantsy book about a fantasy god and started to look at what a disasterous effect you and you country are having on the world you might just be able to kiss your own *** goodbye just before the ballon goes up.