31 May
Abortion advocates join in smears…
“It is abhorrent that once again, individuals who oppose the right to choose have used violence to try to advance their extreme anti-choice agenda,” said Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.
1) Murder is wrong and the killing of George Tiller was an immoral act of cowardice.
2) “Anti-choice” is a dishonest term…see: http://notantichoice.com/
3) The intellectually dishonest political exploitation has sadly begun by groups like the National Abortion Federation. Their statements communicate that they would rather profit politically through dishonest smears than engage in a real debate about abortion and human life.
LIFE NEWS: George Tiller Shooting Suspect Caught, No Connection With Pro-Life Groups
Others who have exploited the tragic death of George Tiller to smear pro-lifers:
Kansas City Star: Hendricks: Tiller’s killers were many
DailyKos: “Tiller deserved to die”
The Seminal: The Deadly Logic of the Anti-Choice Movement
31 May
The research behind this video:
1.16% Same-sex Couples
http://www.gaydemographics.org/USA/USA.htm
Homosexuals with same-sex partners were at greater risk for overall mental health problems and were 6.5 times more likely than their twins to have attempted suicide
R. Herrell, et al., “A Co-Twin Study in Adult Men,” Archives of General Psychiatry 56 (1999): 867-874.
“the incidence of domestic violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heterosexual population.”
William C. Nichols, et al, editors, Handbook of Family Development and Intervention (New York:John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000): 393.
http://books.google.com/books?id=vHRHAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_ViewAPI&pgis=1
“same-sex cohabitants reported significantly more intimate partner violence than did opposite-sex cohabitants. Thirty-nine percent of the same-sex cohabitants reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a marital/cohabitating partner at some time in their lifetimes, compared to 21.7 percent of the opposite-sex cohabitants. Among men, the comparable figures are 23.1 percent and 7.4 percent.”
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/181867.htm
Same-sex cohabitants reported significantly more intimate partner violence than did opposite-sex cohabitants. 39% of the female same-sex cohabitants reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a marital/cohabitating partner at some time in their lifetimes, compared to 21.7% of the opposite-sex female cohabitants. Among men, the comparable figures are 23.1% and 7.4%t.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf
“Married women in traditional families experience the lowest rate of violence compared with women in other types of relationships”
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv.pdf
Substantially higher proportions of the homosexual sample used alcohol, marijuana, or cocaine than was the case in the general population.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2589133
Homosexual Men Account for 65 Percent of Syphilis Cases, CDC Study Finds
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41975
Roughly one of every 10 men who have sex with men reported using meth within a six-month period, according to a 2005 study cited by the L.A. County Department of Public Health in a report this week. That frequency is about 20 times greater than in the general population, Fielding (Los Angeles County public health director.) said.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/11/local/me-meth11
In their study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that “the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500.” In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_n4_v34/ai_20536043/
Lesbians and gay men may be at increased risk for morbidity and mortality due to higher levels of cigarette and alcohol use.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17018152&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus
In a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/657
31 May
LINKS:
The Washington Post, April 10: Faith Groups Increasingly Lose Gay Rights Fights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040904063_pf.html
NPR Documents Loss of Personal and Religious Freedom to Gay Agenda
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91486191