Kelly Epperson
As Americans, we owe immense gratitude to our government. Our political leaders seek to protect us from foreign threats (except terrorists, illegal immigration, and Islamic extremists), and now they seek to protect us from ourselves! The government has discovered what terrible lifestyles we lead, and it is determined to eliminate them. We eat too much salt, use too much oil, emit too much carbon, make too much money, and the list continues. There is one “lifestyle,” however, that the government has not attacked. In fact, the media openly encourages it by glamorizing it in TV programs. The “lifestyle” of homosexuality has had severe consequences for society, and yet those who would criticize it are called bigots or homophobes. Saying that homosexuality is morally wrong would send thousands of San Franciscans into a riot and make Barney Frank shake in his Dolce & Gabbana shoes. When we understand that homosexuality is a choice, and that choice has negative outcomes, we realize that homosexuality should not be encouraged, but rather exposed for the abomination that it is.
Homosexuality: nature or nurture?
Logically, if homosexuality is purely genetic, it is determined solely by DNA. For this reason, a set of identical twins should have the same sexual orientation. They should both be heterosexual or both be homosexual. Interestingly, the largest and most recent study conducted on homosexuality in twins found that only 52% of identical twins have the same sexual orientation. If homosexuality is genetic, that percent should be 100%. This fact alone disproves that homosexuality is genetic. Furthermore, species are designed to reproduce. Traits that diminish reproduction (or the desire to reproduce) are not called a minority, they’re called mutations.
Negative outcomes of homosexuality
1. Decrease in reproduction
While supporters of homosexuality would argue most ardently that gay marriage is just as valid as heterosexual marriage, they leave out an important component of marriage: CHILDREN! Heterosexual couples can reproduce, whereas a gay couple have never and will never be able to reproduce naturally; thus, homosexuality is, by its very definition, against nature. Gay activists will wring their hands and say that “One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness” (1964). If everyone became left-handed, though, we would just need to change scissors and baseball gloves. If everyone became homosexual, it would wipe out the entire human race. See a difference?
2. Increase in the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases
Currently, in the United States alone, there are over 1 million diagnosed with HIV, and almost 500,000 diagnosed with AIDS, the deadly disease that is caused by the HIV virus. Of those diagnosed with AIDS, over 75% are male, and almost two-thirds became infected through male-to-male sexual contact. The gay activists do not like to be bothered with such irrelevant things as facts. They just want to have their public, exhibitionist parades in peace. Isn’t that what we all want?
The fact is, promiscuity is higher among homosexuals, and there are plenty of statistics to support this claim. One study found that 85% of married females and 75% of married males report sexual fidelity in their marriages, while only 4.5% of homosexual males report fidelity in their relationships. Furthermore, a study done by Bell and Weinberg found that 43% of male white homosexuals had over 500 sexual partners, and 28% had over 1000. What does this mean? It means that HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are much more likely to be spread in the homosexual culture of sexual activity. It also means that homosexuality is literally killing thousands of people each year. Where is our government to protect us now?
What does the Word of God say?
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” Romans 1:26-28(NKJV). There is no room for private interpretation. God condemns homosexuality, and we must do the same.
The debate of homosexuality is critical for the future morality of our nation , and we must do our own research. Do not look to ABC or Rosie O’Donnell to decide for you. Find the truth, learn it, and speak it in love.
Want to find more statistics on homosexuality? Please visit:
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1845227
http://www.avert.org
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