Truths4yer
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I see you're still here after all this time spreading misinformation and anecdotes culture warrior. I'll correct some of the most recent propaganda but likely won't waste too much time on this thread.
"More black men get anal cancer than men of other races."
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/anal.htm
American Cancer Society, 2011-2012:
"African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic group in the US for most cancers."
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/co...rveilance/documents/document/acspc-027765.pdf
According to the CDC, in 2009:
"African Americans had 9.1 times the reported syphilis rates of whites".
http://www.cdc.gov/std/health-disparities/race.htm
According to the CDC, in 2009:
African Americans had 20.5 times the reported gonorrhea rates of Whites".
http://www.cdc.gov/std/health-disparities/race.htm
The Centers for Disease Control:
"In 2009, blacks/African Americans made up approximately 13% of the population of the 40 states (surveyed) but accounted for 52% of diagnoses of HIV infection." (See slide 5).
http://cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/slides/race-ethnicity/index.htm
AVERT - International AIDS Charity:
"Despite comprising less than 1% of the total UK population, Black-Africans accounted for one third of all new HIV diagnoses in 2009."
http://www.avert.org/uk-race-age-gender.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005:
"To date, there are no confirmed cases of female-to-female sexual transmission of HIV in the United States database."
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/women/resources/factsheets/wsw.htm
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Fact Sheet 1 July 1996, Page 2:
"Heterosexual (male-female) intercourse accounts for more than 70% of all adult HIV infections to date and homosexual (male-male) intercourse for a further 5-10%."
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cohenaids/5571095.0113.011
Now we can look at why there might be STI/substance abuse disparities for LGBT people and racial minorities:
I.H. Meyer, 1995, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 36(1), 38-56:
"The concept of minority stress is based on the premise that gay people in a heterosexist society are subjected to chronic stress related to their stigmatization. Minority stressors were conceptualized as: internalized homophobia, which relates to gay men's direction of societal negative attitudes toward the self; stigma, which relates to expectations of rejection and discrimination; and actual experiences of discrimination and violence."
http://www.chssp.columbia.edu/events/ms/year4/pdf/sh_Meyer IH.pdf
Hatzenbuehler et al. 2011, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 115(3), 213-220:
"Results indicated significant indirect effects from discrimination to alcohol-related problems through negative affect and coping motives".
Lehavot et al. 2011, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(2), 159-170:
"Direct links emerged between victimization and substance use and between internalized homophobia and substance use".
McCabe et al. 2010, American Journal of Public Health, 100(10), 1946-1952:
"The odds of past-year substance use disorders were nearly 4 times greater among LGB adults who reported all 3 types of discrimination prior to the past year than for LGB adults who did not report discrimination".
Mizuno et al. 2011, AIDS and Behavior, 1-12:
"Men exposed to both homophobia and racism were more likely than men exposed to neither form of discrimination to report unprotected receptive anal intercourse with a casual sex partner (AOR = 1.92, 95% CI, 1.18-3.24) and binge drinking (AOR = 1.42, 95% CI, 1.02-1.98)."
Martin et al. 2010, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(3), 293–301:
"The findings provide evidence that American gay and bisexual men may experience a variety of stressful life events, including a surprising amount of victimization, and that at least some episodes of UAS (unprotected anal sex) may be associated with attempts to cope with distress associated with such events".
Huso Yi et al. 2010, Health Psychology, 29(2), 205–214:
"Gay men who reported UAI (unprotected anal intercourse), compared to the men without UAI, reported significantly higher levels of internalized homophobia."
In case you aren't following, you are the cause of these disparities CultureWarrior. You and your kind. I've compiled an absolute gold mine of studies on this at the following URL. The above are just a sample:
http://homoresponse.blogspot.com/2011/06/mental-health-and-substance-abuse.html
Numbers 31:17-18: "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
1 Samuel 15:3: “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
Deuteronomy 20:10-14: "Before you attack a town that is far from your land, offer peace to the people who live there. If they surrender and open their town gates, they will become your slaves. But if they reject your offer of peace and try to fight, surround their town and attack. Then, after the Lord helps you capture it, kill all the men. Take the women and children as slaves".
There are many other examples of the biblical command, sanction or endorsement of virtually everything which could be considered immoral but the above is just a flavour.
Very briefly on your article about the naturalness of homosexuality, which is one big straw man; medical care, such as anticoagulants, are unnatural, as are antiperspirants. Some people are abnormally kind or intelligent. Normality and naturalness are therefore irrelevant to what is good/bad.
Firstly we can look at racial disparities for each STI mentioned and you can let me know if you consider them sufficient grounds for racism:those who engage in homosex are disproportionately afflicted with various diseases and substance abuse problems....
Certainly you don't think that homosexuals leave anal cancer, syphilis, gonorrhea and HIV/AIDS at home when they report for work do you anna?
ANAL CANCER
The CDC:"More black men get anal cancer than men of other races."
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/anal.htm
American Cancer Society, 2011-2012:
"African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic group in the US for most cancers."
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/co...rveilance/documents/document/acspc-027765.pdf
SYPHILIS
According to the CDC, in 2009:
"African Americans had 9.1 times the reported syphilis rates of whites".
http://www.cdc.gov/std/health-disparities/race.htm
GONORRHOEA
According to the CDC, in 2009:
African Americans had 20.5 times the reported gonorrhea rates of Whites".
http://www.cdc.gov/std/health-disparities/race.htm
HIV
The Centers for Disease Control:
"In 2009, blacks/African Americans made up approximately 13% of the population of the 40 states (surveyed) but accounted for 52% of diagnoses of HIV infection." (See slide 5).
http://cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/slides/race-ethnicity/index.htm
AVERT - International AIDS Charity:
"Despite comprising less than 1% of the total UK population, Black-Africans accounted for one third of all new HIV diagnoses in 2009."
http://www.avert.org/uk-race-age-gender.htm
FEMALE HOMOSEXUALS, IN BRIEF:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005:
"To date, there are no confirmed cases of female-to-female sexual transmission of HIV in the United States database."
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/women/resources/factsheets/wsw.htm
GLOBAL HIV
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Fact Sheet 1 July 1996, Page 2:
"Heterosexual (male-female) intercourse accounts for more than 70% of all adult HIV infections to date and homosexual (male-male) intercourse for a further 5-10%."
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cohenaids/5571095.0113.011
Now we can look at why there might be STI/substance abuse disparities for LGBT people and racial minorities:
MINORITY STRESS
I.H. Meyer, 1995, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 36(1), 38-56:
"The concept of minority stress is based on the premise that gay people in a heterosexist society are subjected to chronic stress related to their stigmatization. Minority stressors were conceptualized as: internalized homophobia, which relates to gay men's direction of societal negative attitudes toward the self; stigma, which relates to expectations of rejection and discrimination; and actual experiences of discrimination and violence."
http://www.chssp.columbia.edu/events/ms/year4/pdf/sh_Meyer IH.pdf
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Hatzenbuehler et al. 2011, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 115(3), 213-220:
"Results indicated significant indirect effects from discrimination to alcohol-related problems through negative affect and coping motives".
Lehavot et al. 2011, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(2), 159-170:
"Direct links emerged between victimization and substance use and between internalized homophobia and substance use".
McCabe et al. 2010, American Journal of Public Health, 100(10), 1946-1952:
"The odds of past-year substance use disorders were nearly 4 times greater among LGB adults who reported all 3 types of discrimination prior to the past year than for LGB adults who did not report discrimination".
SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOUR
Mizuno et al. 2011, AIDS and Behavior, 1-12:
"Men exposed to both homophobia and racism were more likely than men exposed to neither form of discrimination to report unprotected receptive anal intercourse with a casual sex partner (AOR = 1.92, 95% CI, 1.18-3.24) and binge drinking (AOR = 1.42, 95% CI, 1.02-1.98)."
Martin et al. 2010, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(3), 293–301:
"The findings provide evidence that American gay and bisexual men may experience a variety of stressful life events, including a surprising amount of victimization, and that at least some episodes of UAS (unprotected anal sex) may be associated with attempts to cope with distress associated with such events".
Huso Yi et al. 2010, Health Psychology, 29(2), 205–214:
"Gay men who reported UAI (unprotected anal intercourse), compared to the men without UAI, reported significantly higher levels of internalized homophobia."
In case you aren't following, you are the cause of these disparities CultureWarrior. You and your kind. I've compiled an absolute gold mine of studies on this at the following URL. The above are just a sample:
http://homoresponse.blogspot.com/2011/06/mental-health-and-substance-abuse.html
Thankfully there is no good reason to believe that the biblical deity exists and plenty to believe that it doesn't, otherwise we'd have to consider the mass murder and sexual enslavement of children to be an objectively morally good deed, such as in;God created government to righteously police those that disregard His Word and turn the society that they live in into a chaotic jungle.
Numbers 31:17-18: "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
1 Samuel 15:3: “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
Deuteronomy 20:10-14: "Before you attack a town that is far from your land, offer peace to the people who live there. If they surrender and open their town gates, they will become your slaves. But if they reject your offer of peace and try to fight, surround their town and attack. Then, after the Lord helps you capture it, kill all the men. Take the women and children as slaves".
There are many other examples of the biblical command, sanction or endorsement of virtually everything which could be considered immoral but the above is just a flavour.
Very briefly on your article about the naturalness of homosexuality, which is one big straw man; medical care, such as anticoagulants, are unnatural, as are antiperspirants. Some people are abnormally kind or intelligent. Normality and naturalness are therefore irrelevant to what is good/bad.