This is from last week, so if it’s old news to you, I Am Sorry, but I just ran across it, and as is usual with the mouthbreathing imbecile Bryan Fischer, I’m laughing too hard not to mock it thoroughly:
“That one puff on that cigarette could be the one that causes your heart attack,” said Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
As long as we’re on the subject of health, what the surgeon general did not say but should have is that the same is true of homosexual behavior: the first act of gay sex can be the one that kills you.
Of course, the same can be said of the first act of straight sex, even if you’re married by Bryan Fischer’s Christian standards. If he’s HIV-infected, she can get it.
While drugs have been found to mitigate the damage done by HIV, there is no cure. Once someone contracts it, he has it for life, a life often tragically shortened by between eight and 20 years, according to the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Smoking will cut six to seven years from the lifespan of the smoker, meaning a cigarette habit is less dangerous to human health and longevity than gay sex.
Yes, the Idaho rube Bryan Fischer actually thinks all gay men have/will get HIV, when in reality it’s only a small number. Rates are much higher in sub-Saharan Africa, where it’s spread mostly through Godly Heterosexual Contact. As always with Bryan the question is: is he stupid or evil? Stupid or evil? Looking at his picture, I’m inclined to go with the former. Regardless, he’s a liar, so there’s that.
According to the Associated Press, “[T]here is no safe level of exposure to cigarette smoke.” Same goes for participation in gay sex – there is simply “no safe level of exposure.”
Actually, as long as neither partner is infected, Hot Hard Gay Sex is extremely safe, and moreover, FUN!
Here’s an idea: since gay sex is more dangerous to human health than cigarette smoking [sic], let’s make sure our public policies on both are the same.
All right, you have to be 18, but if somebody else buys the gay sex for you, you’re free to do it younger. BUT, and this is important: No gay sex in restaurants unless the establishment owner has a permit. Otherwise, you have to have all your gay sex outside, and at least 20-30 feet from all building entrances. Corporations are free to sex up designated homo sexytime areas.
Oh, and no gay sex in airports. Sorry, Larry Craig!
Okay, I’m done. Anyway, so that was Bryan Fischer, in his trademark remedial way, calling for the criminalization of homosexuality. This is why the American Family Association is a SPLC-certified hate group.
How many gay teenage deaths by suicide are provoked by hate and bullying from people like Bryan Fischer?
And once again, this only applies to gay males.
For whatever reason, our opponents don’t much care about lesbians.
emma and Wayne, this is something that irks me to no end. No end.
Emily, that’s because they think that people who have only 2 X chromosomes are inferior to those of us who have an X AND a Y. They’re like Sneeches, the ones who have ‘stars upon thars’ are superior to Sneeches who don’t.
Get out your old Dr. Seuss books and check it out.
i have a hypothesis (probably shared by others) that homophobia and misogyny are very closely linked. This is more evidence.
I don’t know if it is available any more, but an early queer theory book called “Which Way Out of the men’s room” is a terrific study on the misigyby/homophobia link.
They are totally related, in a nutshell it goes something like this: men are superior to women, so a man who ‘wants to act like a woman’ wants to be something inferior–he must be nuts. Lesbians ‘want to be men’ which is understandable because they want to be superior, so they aren’t as bad as gay men, but they still have to stay in their assigned place. We don’t like them for not submitting themselves to men the way ‘women are supposed to’. I assume this almost universal obsession with ‘sex roles’ is tied to the same obsessive need to procreate and ‘have families’, even though humans on this planet are about 7 billion now and counting.
OH yeah, Emily, they’re completely related. I don’t have time to expound right now, hopefully I can later, but for now, Amanda Marcotte is a good resource. She’s written extensively about it.
Indeed, misogyny and homophobia ARE related. A lot of these hater asshats hate/look down on women and homosexuality brings out all their fears of ending up in a situation of “playing the woman”. Insane I know, but that’s wingnuts for ya.