A New ‘Gay Disease’?

observer101, I'm not sharing the hostility that you have to gays, but then I really can't argue with anything you said either.

One more point I'd like to make regarding gays and our tolerance of them: Don't expect us to teach our children that it's "Normal" to be gay or allow gay couples to adopt. 'Cause it ain't gonna happen.

Gaydom isnt a disease...Its a nasty habit from ppl wanting attention and the shock value from there teenage years. Now its supposedly cool to be gay. Theres is money and "friends", and attention to be had in it nowadays. How ever one looks at it, its morally wrong. Men arent meant to have sex with one another to procreate. Nothing on this earth does that but humans. Most of the time its dudes that have been exploited in some way as a child, or didnt have what it took to get chicks, so they resorted to other loser dudes to have sex with. There is no medical excuses or genetics involved. Just nasty choices. I agree with others who say that most gays that have the " IM superior and deserve special treatment" gays are out of control. To all you gays out there STOP BEING LOSERS and pulling the Im special because im gay crap...No one is really impressed with it. If you want to be treated like reg ppl then act like a normal person. I dont hear hardly any hetros going around LOUDLY proclaiming there nightly sex life and exploits more than gays. And if some gay strain of staph is infecting gays , then great...Maybe you will stop having unprotected sex. P.s. It seems that more and more gays are suicidal and just dont care who they have sex with, what they catch, or what there infected with. POOR THEM :)

"Stop categorizing behavior as "gay" or "straight" when it's simply "human."

A man having anal sex with another man is "Gay" behavior, is it not? It's certainly not "straight" behavior because a woman and a man would have to be involved, and it's definitely not "Human" behavior because all humans can't do this (we'd all have to be male). Same with man-on-man oral sex.

So, you want to be treated equally as humans, but you want us to forget about what is actually happening when the door closes, is that it? You're all the same as everyone else except you like to like to have sex with your own gender, is that it?

I'm not denying "gay love" or that people are born gay or even that gays deserve the right to be treated equally under the law, I'm just trying to make the point that there is distinctly GAY behavior, and although all gays are Humans, all Humans are not gay, which is what your post seems to be implying.

Hey BayAreaGuy, are you saying the rectum was designed for sex? I would strongly disagree that anal sex is prevalent in heterosexual couples. Well, maybe in the San Francisco area, but not the rest of the planet.

I have no problems with gays, what I have a problem with is "miltant" gays who think that they are superior because they are gay. We seem to have a lot of those around here, you know the lesbians (and "momentary lesbians" - they're my favorite) and gay men that look and talk down to straights, like we're not "in the know" because we don't have sex with our own gender.

I have no problem whatsoever living side-by-side with gays, on an equal basis, but to suppose for a second that you're better than straights is just self-reassuring bull.

Practicing gay men were "13 times more likely" to get MRSA. It doesn't make it a gay disease, but it makes it a disease with a whopping good chance of devastating gays as well as affecting all segments of society because, unlike AIDS, can be transmitted on SURFACES. We are reaching the end of the antibiotic age because most people, gay or straight, have abused antibiotics. These facts do not constitute homophobia. When AIDS broke out in San Francisco in the 1980's, the reaction was the same....the cries of "homophopbia!" Meanwhile, the gay community did NOTHING...they left the gay bath houses open while an unwitting population sewed the seeds of suicide. It will affect everyone, but it will affect gays worse. Most straight people know at least someone in their family who is gay, and no, we don't have a death wish against anyone. But DENIAL is not a healthy thing. Anal sex is simply rough on the body and opens people up to more bacteria. As the gay community has flourished, so have sexually transmitted diseases and their potency and ability to mutate. It's very concerning for everyone, no matter what your sexual practices are. We would like to think we can go to the hospital for surgery and not come home with MRSA complications.

Living in the gay community in California, and being gay and OUT there, it is scary in a way. If staph infection spreads so easily than dancing next to someone who is sweating who may have it, than their is a cause to be alarmed. On the other hand this staph infection did start by senior citizens in hospitals and than spread through gay men in the hospitals taking care of themselves. This was a story that has its origins from awhile now. I did hook up once online with someone in San Diego, California who actually had, several years ago. I landed on this guys house and I saw his bruises and he told me they where staph infections, he had patches. I was so angry at him I actually didn't run out but I sat down and told him why was he having sex with me or other man if he had this infection that is actually worse than AIDS! You see AIDS you die from it, but at least you get to live several years, but with this staph is another way of saying I HAVE LEPROSY. You die fast and it is so ugly and serious to have it. After speaking to this guy I left home and was so afraid of life itself and my free life that since than I look at anyone I meet since than sexually. Being in the gay community is harder than living in straight community for sure. I truly believe that STAPH infection is caused by Tweekers who do not take their medicines and have sex 27/7. Tina is not a female friend and it is the cause of this risk free infections in the gay community. I never taken drugs in my life and I wont sleep with anyone who is doing it. I think that it is a serious disease if you confront it and see it, but cases are so small it is actually hard to meet someone who actually has it. Since than I did meet someone who had something going on on his *** and I was so scared I told him off and almost called the police.

Shame on you news week! Way to exploit homophobia with your stupid headline

Wow. It's amazing how people will hide behind the mask of anonymity to say such unspeakable things. I see Fred Phelps' folks have found their way here, as has a certain arrogant Mensan I've confronted on this issue before. On the bright side it's exactly these kinds of Springer-esque "discussions" which, when brought before middle America, advance the cause of the very people who the bigots in here attempt to demonize.

Attacking gays from the Bible is disingenious when so many moderate churches today preach the words of Christ, Matthew 7:1-5, interpret Leviticus as the history it is (with apologies to all of you practicing Levite Jews), and read the writings of Saint Paul with the same discretionary eye that allows modern theologists to look beyond now-unacceptable Biblical teachings regarding the conduct and punishment of women, children, and slaves.

Confronting some "real" issues: let's protect the family from the (Republican and Democrat alike) government we've abdicated our rights to, protect marriage from the heterosexuals for whom divorce has become the equivalent of "relationship abortion", and take our churches back from zealots who would do to Christianity exactly what has been done by Wahhabi fundamentalists to Islam.

When we've finished that, let's get government the Hell out of our wallets, our bedrooms, and our schools, and set about making this country great again by once again elevating intellectuals like Albert Einstein and Robert Goddard to the forefront (and putting the steroid-using mega-million earning super-athletes back in their rightful places as second-fiddles to those making *real* strides for mankind.)

I want the government and the pulpit to stay out of my bedroom and set about doing constructive things that better the lives of our citizens. If the outcry about removing common sense from our society were half as loud as the outcry about removing God from our money, we wouldn't have ninety percent of the problems we have, and blaming our problems on five to ten percent of the country who is of a different sexual orientation is ignoring the other ninety to ninety-five percent who nod their heads and endorse whatever other moral outrage is offered to them because an attractive talking head on TV told them it's what they should do.

WAKE THE HELL UP! In twenty years our kids won't be wearing bracelets that say "WWJD?", they will be wearing bracelets that say "WWBD?" "What Would Beijing Do?" We can do something * real* about it now (I don't want to hear about sex -- vaginal, anal, oral, or otherwise -- at the pulpit, or on C-SPAN. What ever happened to the Good Samaritan?)

Or we can continue to distract ourselves with small shiny objects.

God help us all.

-Joe G.

I hate to say this all sounds like dejau, but it really does al sound lik deja vu. Hopefully, we'll deal with this health crisis better thanwe dealt with the AIDS crisis. History's got to teach something, right?

Sick twisted bastards. It is you who will not be happy till all gay people are dead. Then what? Mexicans? Blacks? Where does hate end? NOWHERE, except where it begins.
Staph infections are not sexually transmitted. This proves the fools that believe everything they hear from the press and mindlessly go running with the mob towards the burning stable.
Get it together already.
Jesus would vomit if he returned, at all this hatred spewed.
Peace out!

Homosexuals obviously will never be happy until everyone is dead. Their two-edged sword is genocide by ending reproduction, and genocide by spreading diseases. They are completely out of control and need to be institutionalized. Why in the world would I ever accept a group of sick and twisted individuals who's only goal is to end the human race? It is time for the men and women of this world to stand up and end the tyranny of these people who are very mentally disturbed and insane. It's time to adopt a zero tolerance stand concerning homosexuals. It is time to help these people by rounding them up and getting them the serious help that they so desperately need. Let's build a strong world, not a sick and dying one.

CONTINUED FROM BELOW... So maybe the CHRISTIAN BIGOTS - particularly the BIGOTED Christian women out there... Maybe they should be afraid of this new strand of MRSA because their homophobic obscessed husbands might very well out cruising the parks and bath houses.

If this new, deadly strand of MRSA is spread to heterosexual people, it won't be spread to heterosexuals by openly gay men. Openly gay men don't bother to have sex with females... It will be spread to heterosexuals by CLOSETED gay and bisexual men. The "Ted Haggards" and "Larry Craigs" of Christian Bigoted America will be the ones to thank. CLOSETED men who are too fearful to live openly and honestly because of the MANUFACTURED CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY invented by HATE GROUPS like Concerned Women For America. So maybe the CHRISTIAN BIGOTS

If this new strain of MRSA spreads to heterosexuals, it won't be spread by openly gay men. Openly gay men rarely bother to have sex with females. If this deadly MRSA is spread to heterosexuals, it will be spread by CLOSETED gay and bisexual men... Men who are too fearfull to live openly and honestly because of the CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY invented by HATE GROUPS like Concerned Women For America...