Why we don't hear more about LGBTQ Health Hazards
On the issue of risks of homosexual practices, the national [health] organizations have become reckless guardians of the public health. The failure to report morbidity and mortality rates associated with homosexual practices should be cause for governmental scrutiny. The furthering of an agenda – no matter whose agenda – must not be placed above the lives of those whose interests must be protected. Activism must not be placed above science in informing public policy. It is an injustice to homosexual men and women to allow activism, including accusations of homophobia, to silence discussion of health risks or to suppress research. A civil society has an obligation to implement policies that promote the health and well-being of its citizens.
In the early 1970s, sexual-radical activists subverted the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association and forced the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. How? They voted on it. They voted on science? Since when do you vote on science.
A former head of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Nicholas Cummings, recently admitted that his group is essentially controlled by “ultra-leftists” and the “gay rights movement,” and that scientific evidence is no longer the basis for its policy positions.
Following the lead of the mental health groups, others fell into line: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal Department of Health & Human Services, major medical associations, local public health agencies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and assorted media. The unscientific opinion that homosexuality should no longer be considered a mental disorder became accepted wisdom. Sodomitic practices were now to be considered normal and healthy expressions of human sexuality.
The CDC sets the tone for the medical establishment’s view of homosexuality. It disseminates the dogma that male homosexuals can “establish and maintain sexual health.” But how likely is this? Most homosexual men will choose to continue the lifestyle and physical practices that define their “sexual orientation”: promiscuity, anonymous sex partners, anal penetration, contact with or ingestion of feces, failure to adhere to “safer sex” advice, etc. Whether condoms, lubrication, and dental dams are used or not, exposure to infection and trauma to organs will still occur, and psychological outcomes will not be healthy. ...
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics are now LGBTQUI-affirming. The AMA requires “the physician’s nonjudgmental recognition of sexual orientation and behavior,” also referencing “culturally competent care.” Internal health physicians now find it more difficult to tell a homosexual his behaviors to endanger his physical well-being. If those sexual desires and practices are normal, why should they be questioned, and how could they be dangerous? A doctor’s critical attitude (based on medical risks) may now be considered unacceptable “discrimination” and “stigmatization.”
The AMA’s ethics document also reveals its leftist politics, advocating: overturning the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” military policy; lifting the lifetime ban on homosexual males donating blood; adoption by same-sex couples; “gay” youth membership in organizations (e.g., Boy Scouts); and same-sex “marriage.” Medicine has been politicized ...
