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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A 15-page majority opinion by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Nov. 18 avoided several issues that conservatives say should be confronted before the nation embraces same-sex "marriage."
They point to research showing that homosexual relationships -- particularly those involving homosexual men -- are short-term and rarely monogamous. Such relationships, they say, lead to unhealthy behavior, which in turn produces a spread in sexually transmitted diseases.
Just this year the Centers for Disease Control announced that HIV and syphilis rates among homosexual men are up -- despite the fact that the "safe sex" message has been promoted in America for nearly two decades.
"People need to see that what we're condoning and what we're legalizing now has problems from the very onset," Mike Haley, a former homosexual who now works for Focus on the Family, told Baptist Press.
Tim Wilkins, another former homosexual who heads Cross Ministry, Inc, agreed.
"Even men and women who are homosexual and have been involved in homosexuality for years have told me frankly that they know of few if any long-term relationships -- male or female," he told BP.
Conservatives say the brevity of homosexual relationships and lack of monogamy with them matters because the institution of marriage is already in trouble. The brevity of those relationships would change society greatly and would add to an already abysmal divorce rate, which in turn would negatively impact the children they raise.
Evangelicals agree with those arguments but say the problem runs much deeper. Homosexual relationships, they say, run counter to God's plan for mankind. Writing in a Crosswalk.com commentary Oct. 29, R. Albert Mohler Jr. of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said that marriage is the "culminating picture of creation's goodness."
If homosexuality is rebellion against God, evangelicals say, then it will never bring the contentment that the homosexual seeks.
"Because of that void he is trying to fill it the wrong way and the only way he knows to fill it is through sexual encounters," Wilkins said. "But after the sexual encounter is over, the emptiness is even larger.
"The sexual relationships simply exacerbate the very problem that [the] male homosexual is trying to alleviate."
A 1985 book by two homosexual men, David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, seems to underscore the problem of same-sex relationships. The book, "The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop," followed more than 150 homosexual men and found that 95 percent of them have "an arrangement whereby the partners may have sexual activity with others at some time under certain conditions." Their relationships lasted anywhere from one to 37 years.
With the debate over same-sex "marriage" intensifying, The New York Times ran a story in August showing that homosexuals in Canada are not rushing to tie the knot. The debate "pits those who celebrate a separate and flamboyant way of life as part of a counterculture against those who long for acceptance into the mainstream," the story read.
The story followed two men in their 40s, David Andrew and David Warren, who have lived together for seven years.
Although the men promise to protect one another, the story says "they stop short of monogamy, which is something Mr. Andrew also says he does not believe in."
The level of promiscuity varies, although it seems to be the norm, author Timothy J. Dailey argues in his book "Dark Obsession." He quotes a 1997 study of 2,583 older homosexual men published in the Journal of Sex Research that found the "modal range for number of sexual partners ... was 101-500." Ten to 15 percent said they had had more than 1,000 sexual partners.
"The gay community is going to tell you that the reason that their relationships have problems is because society has not yet condoned them and doesn't give them the privileges that heterosexuals have," Haley said.
"[But] when we look at areas like San Francisco or the Netherlands, which are very gay affirmative areas, those numbers are even higher."
The rate of infidelity among homosexuals counters that of heterosexuals. A survey published in the book "Sex in America" found that 90 percent of wives and 75 percent of husbands claimed never to have committed adultery.
The level of promiscuity has been harmful to both the health and the mortality rate of homosexual men.
A 1997 article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that in one Canadian urban area, the expected life span for a homosexual man at age 20 was 8 to 20 years less than that for all men.
And the problem of STDs is not improving. The Centers for Disease Control reported this year that new cases of HIV among homosexual men rose for the third straight year. Homosexual men accounted for 42 percent of new HIV cases in 2000 and 60 percent of all cases among all men -- despite the fact that homosexual men make up no more than 1 to 3 percent of the population. Among all new cases heterosexuals accounted for 33 percent, injection drug users 25 percent.
"Even the most promiscuous heterosexual male will not be [involved in] even close to the amount of promiscuity male homosexuals will be involved in," Wilkins said. "The reason is that the male homosexual has a void in his heart and life. ... Part of that void is the need for a sense of masculinity as to how God has created him.
"Because of that void he is trying to fill it the wrong way and the only way he knows to fill it is through sexual encounters. But after the sexual encounter is over, the emptiness is even larger."
Haley agreed.
"You have individuals attempting to meet an emotional need through a sexual relationship," he said. "And so when they get together and it's so sexually fueled and they're looking to have their needs met through the sexual encounter, you're left empty handed. There's not a cognitive realization of that -- they just think that the relationships break up and go on.
"Those of us that come out of homosexuality -- that's one of the first things we realize. These relationships that I'm having in these anonymous sexual encounters, they're never going to end up meeting the emotional need that I'm looking for."
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For information on freedom from homosexuality, visit LifeWay Christian Resources webpage at: http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/mainpage/0,1701,M%3D50002,00.html
Thanks to BPnews.net
They point to research showing that homosexual relationships -- particularly those involving homosexual men -- are short-term and rarely monogamous. Such relationships, they say, lead to unhealthy behavior, which in turn produces a spread in sexually transmitted diseases.
Just this year the Centers for Disease Control announced that HIV and syphilis rates among homosexual men are up -- despite the fact that the "safe sex" message has been promoted in America for nearly two decades.
"People need to see that what we're condoning and what we're legalizing now has problems from the very onset," Mike Haley, a former homosexual who now works for Focus on the Family, told Baptist Press.
Tim Wilkins, another former homosexual who heads Cross Ministry, Inc, agreed.
"Even men and women who are homosexual and have been involved in homosexuality for years have told me frankly that they know of few if any long-term relationships -- male or female," he told BP.
Conservatives say the brevity of homosexual relationships and lack of monogamy with them matters because the institution of marriage is already in trouble. The brevity of those relationships would change society greatly and would add to an already abysmal divorce rate, which in turn would negatively impact the children they raise.
Evangelicals agree with those arguments but say the problem runs much deeper. Homosexual relationships, they say, run counter to God's plan for mankind. Writing in a Crosswalk.com commentary Oct. 29, R. Albert Mohler Jr. of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said that marriage is the "culminating picture of creation's goodness."
If homosexuality is rebellion against God, evangelicals say, then it will never bring the contentment that the homosexual seeks.
"Because of that void he is trying to fill it the wrong way and the only way he knows to fill it is through sexual encounters," Wilkins said. "But after the sexual encounter is over, the emptiness is even larger.
"The sexual relationships simply exacerbate the very problem that [the] male homosexual is trying to alleviate."
A 1985 book by two homosexual men, David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, seems to underscore the problem of same-sex relationships. The book, "The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop," followed more than 150 homosexual men and found that 95 percent of them have "an arrangement whereby the partners may have sexual activity with others at some time under certain conditions." Their relationships lasted anywhere from one to 37 years.
With the debate over same-sex "marriage" intensifying, The New York Times ran a story in August showing that homosexuals in Canada are not rushing to tie the knot. The debate "pits those who celebrate a separate and flamboyant way of life as part of a counterculture against those who long for acceptance into the mainstream," the story read.
The story followed two men in their 40s, David Andrew and David Warren, who have lived together for seven years.
Although the men promise to protect one another, the story says "they stop short of monogamy, which is something Mr. Andrew also says he does not believe in."
The level of promiscuity varies, although it seems to be the norm, author Timothy J. Dailey argues in his book "Dark Obsession." He quotes a 1997 study of 2,583 older homosexual men published in the Journal of Sex Research that found the "modal range for number of sexual partners ... was 101-500." Ten to 15 percent said they had had more than 1,000 sexual partners.
"The gay community is going to tell you that the reason that their relationships have problems is because society has not yet condoned them and doesn't give them the privileges that heterosexuals have," Haley said.
"[But] when we look at areas like San Francisco or the Netherlands, which are very gay affirmative areas, those numbers are even higher."
The rate of infidelity among homosexuals counters that of heterosexuals. A survey published in the book "Sex in America" found that 90 percent of wives and 75 percent of husbands claimed never to have committed adultery.
The level of promiscuity has been harmful to both the health and the mortality rate of homosexual men.
A 1997 article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that in one Canadian urban area, the expected life span for a homosexual man at age 20 was 8 to 20 years less than that for all men.
And the problem of STDs is not improving. The Centers for Disease Control reported this year that new cases of HIV among homosexual men rose for the third straight year. Homosexual men accounted for 42 percent of new HIV cases in 2000 and 60 percent of all cases among all men -- despite the fact that homosexual men make up no more than 1 to 3 percent of the population. Among all new cases heterosexuals accounted for 33 percent, injection drug users 25 percent.
"Even the most promiscuous heterosexual male will not be [involved in] even close to the amount of promiscuity male homosexuals will be involved in," Wilkins said. "The reason is that the male homosexual has a void in his heart and life. ... Part of that void is the need for a sense of masculinity as to how God has created him.
"Because of that void he is trying to fill it the wrong way and the only way he knows to fill it is through sexual encounters. But after the sexual encounter is over, the emptiness is even larger."
Haley agreed.
"You have individuals attempting to meet an emotional need through a sexual relationship," he said. "And so when they get together and it's so sexually fueled and they're looking to have their needs met through the sexual encounter, you're left empty handed. There's not a cognitive realization of that -- they just think that the relationships break up and go on.
"Those of us that come out of homosexuality -- that's one of the first things we realize. These relationships that I'm having in these anonymous sexual encounters, they're never going to end up meeting the emotional need that I'm looking for."
--30--
For information on freedom from homosexuality, visit LifeWay Christian Resources webpage at: http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/mainpage/0,1701,M%3D50002,00.html
Thanks to BPnews.net
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