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Is Homosexuality dangerous?

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Figure epidemiology of HIV infection, disease and deaths from AIDS - 1986-2006, based on data from PZH (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) English: Percentage of new HIV infection per state from 2006 to 2008 in Malaysia (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Is homosexuality dangerous to society?  The answer depends on what constitutes a danger.  First of all, there is no objective moral standard that secularists have with which to identify wickedness, evil, and moral decay.  At best, all that can be offered is the generic claim that what is dangerous is what causes undue harm and suffering among the general population.  Such dangers could include economic collapse or upheaval, war, famine, plague, earthquakes, disease, etc.  We could add that dangers to society are things that weaken it, make it less viable to care for its population, make it vulnerable to attack from outside and/or within.  This could be anything from bad religion to bad government.  Also, suc...

Push for more testing has failed to reduce HIV levels in UK homosexuals: study

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English: Main symptoms of acute HIV infection. Sources are found in main article: Wikipedia:Hiv#Acute_HIV_infection. Model: Mikael Häggström. To discuss image, please see Template_talk:Häggström diagrams (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) CAMBRIDGE, February 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Despite a substantial increase in HIV testing at sexually transmitted infection clinics in the UK, there has been no decline in HIV incidence among homosexuals in England and Wales , according to a new study. The study, carried out by researchers from the UK Medical Research Council 's Biostatistics Unit, examined whether increases in testing rates and antiretroviral therapy coverage corresponded to the control of HIV transmission in the UK's population of men who have sex with men ( MSM ) since 2001.  They found that despite an almost four-fold expansion in HIV testing in MSM (16,000 homosexual men in 2001 to 59,300 in 2010), a reduction in the average time-to-diagnosis interval from...

HIV diagnoses in UK homosexual men at all-time high

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English: Percentage of new HIV infection per state from 2006 to 2008 in Malaysia (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Figure epidemiology of HIV infection, disease and deaths from AIDS - 1986-2006, based on data from PZH (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) English: World map of travel & residence restrictions against people with HIV/AIDS: www.aidsmap.co. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) English: Estimated HIV prevalence among young adults (15-49) by country. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) LONDON, November 30, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A report on HIV infection from the  UK’s Health Protection Agency  states that new diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) reached an all-time high in 2011, with 3,010 new cases. The report, which was published on Thursday, says a “worrying” trend has developed since 2007, with rates of new HIV infections rising rapidly among homosexual men. Nearly one in 12 male homosexuals in London now has HIV. In the rest of the nation, one in 20 h...