Jen Shroder
Devastating consequences of homosexual marriage
By Jen Shroder
Aside from the obvious spiritual, moral, and "structure of society" reasons, let's look at the cold hard financial effect of same sex marriage in California.
Statistics show it is a FACT that the average gay couple does not last long. In San Francisco, flooded with bath houses and all the activities that go with the average gay life style, you have a people determined to have their sex regardless of the consequences, which are now being reaped, including AIDS and many other STDs. These diseases can become very costly. "Among Gay men in King County, syphilis rates are 100 times higher than in the general heterosexual population, and are estimated to be 1000 times higher among HIV positive Gay men than among the general heterosexual population."(1) As of 10/2003, there are over 50,000 Californians with full blown AIDS and it continues to increase. There are 107,837 to 124,305 estimated in California with HIV/AIDS. (2)
Compounding the problem, Dr. Max Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, warned congress that "AIDS has already led to other kinds of dangerous epidemics...If AIDS is not eliminated, other new lethal microbes will emerge, and neither safe sex nor drug free practices will prevent them." (3)
So if you're newly diagnosed with HIV, and you don't have health insurance, what can you do?
You get married. BOOM. Medical benefits.
Would it be hard to find a casual gay partner to marry to help with medical costs? How many "in name onlys" do you think might crop up? How many "understandings" will be joined so that the woes of homosexuality can be treated? How many gay men or women, who have clearly ignored what the Bible says, will hesitate to take a vow in order to cash in for medical benefits?
Who cares, right? After all, it's just some insurance company that's going to foot the bill. Right?
Medical benefits are getting harder to find. Employees are already asked to pay more co-payments. If and when homosexual marriages begin, the insurance companies are going to be flooded with claims for partners that will probably come and go with the wind, marriages of medical convenience with no care about the sanctity of marriage, or the joining of souls, which is purposed to provide for little children.
How many legitimately married couples are going to lose their medical benefits because companies can no longer afford the skyrocketing cost of medical insurance, footing the bill for all the AIDS and STD victims who cared more about the partner of the month than they did their own medical safety?
How many children will be in sincere need of medical care, but there won't be any, because medical benefits became too expensive, taking care of every STD victim suffering because of their determination to satisfy their lust no matter what the consequences?
WE DO NEED TO HELP AIDS VICTIMS AND THOSE SUFFERING WITH STDs, and we need to love and reach out to homosexuals, but reducing the sanctity of marriage to a game of matrimonial hop-scotch to see who-marries-who to gain medical benefits, all the while GLSEN infiltrating our public schools and (in my opinion) recruiting boytoys (4) to share in this lifestyle of pain and despair, perpetuating the problem and increasing the number of victims...
Well, I was thinking about objecting...but I'm afraid of being called "homophobic" so maybe I'll just go hide in this corner....
Not.
Footnotes
Aside from the obvious spiritual, moral, and "structure of society" reasons, let's look at the cold hard financial effect of same sex marriage in California.
Statistics show it is a FACT that the average gay couple does not last long. In San Francisco, flooded with bath houses and all the activities that go with the average gay life style, you have a people determined to have their sex regardless of the consequences, which are now being reaped, including AIDS and many other STDs. These diseases can become very costly. "Among Gay men in King County, syphilis rates are 100 times higher than in the general heterosexual population, and are estimated to be 1000 times higher among HIV positive Gay men than among the general heterosexual population."(1) As of 10/2003, there are over 50,000 Californians with full blown AIDS and it continues to increase. There are 107,837 to 124,305 estimated in California with HIV/AIDS. (2)
Compounding the problem, Dr. Max Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, warned congress that "AIDS has already led to other kinds of dangerous epidemics...If AIDS is not eliminated, other new lethal microbes will emerge, and neither safe sex nor drug free practices will prevent them." (3)
So if you're newly diagnosed with HIV, and you don't have health insurance, what can you do?
You get married. BOOM. Medical benefits.
Would it be hard to find a casual gay partner to marry to help with medical costs? How many "in name onlys" do you think might crop up? How many "understandings" will be joined so that the woes of homosexuality can be treated? How many gay men or women, who have clearly ignored what the Bible says, will hesitate to take a vow in order to cash in for medical benefits?
Who cares, right? After all, it's just some insurance company that's going to foot the bill. Right?
Medical benefits are getting harder to find. Employees are already asked to pay more co-payments. If and when homosexual marriages begin, the insurance companies are going to be flooded with claims for partners that will probably come and go with the wind, marriages of medical convenience with no care about the sanctity of marriage, or the joining of souls, which is purposed to provide for little children.
How many legitimately married couples are going to lose their medical benefits because companies can no longer afford the skyrocketing cost of medical insurance, footing the bill for all the AIDS and STD victims who cared more about the partner of the month than they did their own medical safety?
How many children will be in sincere need of medical care, but there won't be any, because medical benefits became too expensive, taking care of every STD victim suffering because of their determination to satisfy their lust no matter what the consequences?
WE DO NEED TO HELP AIDS VICTIMS AND THOSE SUFFERING WITH STDs, and we need to love and reach out to homosexuals, but reducing the sanctity of marriage to a game of matrimonial hop-scotch to see who-marries-who to gain medical benefits, all the while GLSEN infiltrating our public schools and (in my opinion) recruiting boytoys (4) to share in this lifestyle of pain and despair, perpetuating the problem and increasing the number of victims...
Well, I was thinking about objecting...but I'm afraid of being called "homophobic" so maybe I'll just go hide in this corner....
Not.
Footnotes
- Homosexuals admit AIDS culpability / Study seen as community's 1st honest look at lifestyle consequences
- California's State Statistics
- From "The Medical Consequences of Homosexuality" — this post will shock you
- Militant Gay Movement in Public Schools Index
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