“Marriage Equality” is perhaps the most convoluted canard of our time.  Underneath the hood of the homosexual revolution churns the most serious avoidable health problems of our time.

The majority of our most dangerous sexual diseases emanate from the homosexual revolution and are transmitted to wives, infants, children, and men by LBGTQ individuals who are most often bisexual.

Bisexuals are the majority in the LBGTQ movement.   Approximately 1.8% to 4% of Americans are bisexual.  This broad gateway infects unsuspecting heterosexual Americans with serious or fatal diseases. The impact to heterosexual women is serious.  70% of HIV infections in women are attributed to heterosexual contact.

The impact of homosexuality on the rest of us can no longer be ignored:

• Among female adults and adolescents that were diagnosed with HIV infection in 2009, 84.9% were infected through heterosexual contact.
• 25% of new HIV infections are women who are often straight.
• HIV is the #14 cause of infant mortality (Table B). This is most often caused by women who have a bisexual husband or boyfriend.
• There are about 1.2 million individuals infected with HIV in the United States.  About 20% of them do not know they are infected and are spreading the disease invisibly.
• Children raised by homosexual parents are dramatically more likely than peers raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from a host of social problems.
• The total death impact of promiscuity is difficult to quantify because so many other opportunistic fatal diseases are the final cause of death.
• High rates of psychiatric disorders are well-known even in the Netherlands, where homosexuality is widely accepted.  Substance abuse is also common in the LGBTQ community. The rest of American often bears the costs of treatment for STD’s and endless psychological treatment for confused individuals.

Homosexuality has been “legitimized” in our schools.  It is considered an act of hate to question or oppose sexual perversion.  Why do we teach homosexuality in our schools while strongly encouraging our children not to use drugs or smoke?  Fatality data indicates that promiscuity and homosexuality are at least as dangerous to health and life as smoking or drugs.

In New York City, very high rates of risky homosexual practices are reported.  Nearly 10% of sexually-active New York City high school students say they had at least one same-sex partner.  Children do what they are taught.  “Gay, lesbian, and bisexual students are not born that way. The most recent, extensive, and scientifically sound research finds that the primary factor in the development of homosexuality is environmental not genetic”.

Smoking is banned everywhere in America because of the risks imposed to others.  We are tough on drinking and driving for the same reasons.  We can no longer give homosexuality a free pass because the grave healthcare burden it imposes on the rest of us.  The taxpayers cannot “leave the room” to avoid being harmed.

Incubating a national health problem:

Gay men have between 4 and 100 times more sex partners than heterosexual men.  Lesbians are 4.5 times more likely to have over 50 sex partners in their lifetime compared with heterosexual women. 75-90 percent of women who have sex with women have also had sex with men.  Only 10% of homosexual relationships are monogamous after five years.

• The incidence of HIV in men who have sex with men is 44 times that of heterosexual men, and 40 times greater than women
• Homosexual men are 46 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract syphilis.
• HIV is the #10 cause of death for black males and #24 for white males (Table D).
• While there are far fewer lesbians than gays, lesbians are 4.5 times more likely to have had over 50 sex partners than heterosexual women.
• 63 percent of syphilis cases were among men who have sex with men (cite).
• The majority of lesbians commonly have sex with men.

Gay advocacy overwhelms science

Ryan Sorba’s authoritative history of gay advocacy documents how the homosexual revolution overwhelmed the scientific community in the 1970’s and 1980’s applied aggressive activism and now-debunked “studies” to achieve the impossible:  diagnoses of homosexual disorders are no longer objective.  A psychiatric disorder exists only if the individual subjectively discovers it.  The majority of therapy focuses on solipsistic “affirmative therapy” (helping homosexuals feel comfortable with their behavior) instead of steering them to effective “change therapy” that could save their lives and relieve their mental anxieties.

Since psychiatric science does not recognize homosexuality as a diagnosable disorder, the policy responses of the CDC, psychological and psychiatric professions, and schools are limited to carefully encouraging condom use and spending vast sums of taxpayer monies taking care of ill and dying individuals.

Gay advocates now controlling the American Psychiatric Association created false science far more dangerous than Al Gore’s debunked global warming theories.  Gore’s confabulations did not kill anyone.

Gay advocates blame the consequences of their behavior on us, demanding that science and taxpayers take care of them.  Elton John blames “stigma” for causing the AIDS crisis, asserting that “love can fix the problem”.   If gay leaders truly loved their followers, would be addressing rampant promiscuity to save the lives of their followers instead of blaming everyone else.

Gay politics has become another big-government enterprise.  It forces us to accept it, urges more youth to do it, and creates expensive problems requiring massive funding to clean up the mess.

Kinsey acolytes have perverted politics and science in ways not seen since the dark ages.  The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would “protect all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or ‘paraphilias’”. California is considering legislation guaranteeing that many children will die:  S.B. 1172 will bar counselors from helping children recover from unwanted same-sex attractions.

Gay Marriage will not reduce homosexual promiscuity

Gay marriage is an absurd proposition. Dan Savage, a leader of the gay movement, promotes promiscuity. The homosexual revolution is founded on sexual promiscuity.

In states that have gay marriage, few men marry.  Between 2004 and 2008, only 37% of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts involved men.

There is no evidence that “coupling” or gay marriage has notable impact on gay promiscuity.

Marriage becomes a promiscuous government village

Gay marriage is destined to be a three-way marriage between two women and big government.  When Suzie marries Joanie, the kids will most often be born of serial extramarital encounters (where men are unlikely to know that birth control is not being used).

Gay marriage establishes a superior four-income, two-mother, big government family.  Marriage-as-village policy is a lucrative tentacular arrangement:  women keep their own incomes, depending on government to force several men to provide multiple tax-free “child support” incomes.

The tremendous advantages of gay marriage for women are reflected in marriage data. Gay marriage is nearly twice as popular with women in Massachusetts, where 63% of gay marriages involved women between 2004 and 2008.

Gay politics overruns libertarianism and conservatism

Gay conservatism is an impossible concept.  The gay movement will settle for nothing less than hard-core multiculturalist government.

GoProud pretends that gay marriage is a state issue while actively supporting it at the federal level.  Gay marriage is very much a federal issue because DOMA exists.  An onslaught of litigation intended to demolish DOMA is raining down on the U.S. Supreme Court.  Lawsuits of every possible stripe are headed to the Supreme Court to force homosexuality on America.

The Republican Party is allowed Homocon 2012 to be held at its convention and allowed leftists to participate in writing its 2012 platform – a move that may suppress or alienate a large segment of the conservative and Tea Party vote.

Glenn Beck now supports gay marriage.  He is apparently unaware of the grave damage gay marriage will do to the rest of America.

Dear Glenn: Multicultural marriage divides America into two absolute classes depending solely on reproductive ability — with women entitled and men plantation bondservants to big government.  God-given natural social, parental and economic rights will be fully usurped by government.  Health care costs will soar due to illness and social problem grown due to the numbers of sexually-confused children and adults.  Your pocket will be picked and your children indoctrinated whether you like it or not.

We must rescind irresponsible homosexual public policy from the lawbooks across-the-board and discourage homosexual behavior.  We must not allow pansexuals to take over the conservative movement like they did the American Psychiatric Association.  Their invasion is as dangerous to our socioeconomic fabric as the Occupy movement is to free enterprise.

America is burning down because of the demise of heterosexual marriage. Marriage-absence is the greatest socioeconomic problem we face.   Our focus must be on restoring heterosexual marriage as the social norm.

Certainly, budget cuts are necessary.  We must also learn from the political failure of “austerity” in France. If we do not change what the “Federal Sausage Machine” makes, it will continue generating mass social disaster.  There will be no funding to clean it up, and angry voters will again swing to the hard left as they did in 2008.

“Protecting Marriage Month” is a viral leafleting campaign initiated by the Center for Marriage Policy that every American can easily participate in.  Businesses, politicians, and city councils need to focus on health and safety of women and children.  We encourage everyone who backed Chick-Fil-A to download and actively distribute the Protecting Marriage Month leaflet during the month of September.

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David R. Usher is President of the Center for Marriage Policy.

Cynthia L. Davis is Executive Director of the Center for Marriage Policy.

Media Contacts:

Cynthia Davis: cynthia.davis@centerformarriage.org, 636 240-6369

David R. Usher: david.usher@centerformarriage.org

Scott Lively: http://defendthefamily.com, sdllaw@gmail.com, 413 250-0984

Ryan Sorba: ryanjsorba@gmail.com

When I (Cynthia) attended Logan Elementary School in Wilmette, Illinois, we students were sent home for lunch with the understanding our parents would feed and send us back for the afternoon session an hour later. It was every family’s duty to ensure somebody provided lunch every day. Far more happened than bodily nourishment. Parents offer nourishment for the soul and transmit family values. Family lunches gave us time to process what was happening in school and reinforce the culture and virtues that make great citizens.

Parents were expected to raise their children, and school teachers were expected to educate. As no-fault divorce and cohabitation swept the nation, marriage began a tumble quickly followed by declining student test scores.

Marriage-absence, whether from divorce or a family that failed to form in the first place, is a key structural problem driving education failure today. Too many children lack the parental guidance necessary for school readiness. Statistically, children raised in intact families have more social and economic advantages.

Parent-Absence Burdens Schools
Between 1970 and 2009, poorly-designed public policies caused marriage rates to decline by 53 percent, while illegitimacy soared 1,700 percent.  Today, 41% of children are born outside marriage.  In poor areas, this percentage is much higher. Many children ended up worse academically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. As parents did less, public schools started doing more.

The lines started blurring when social engineers assumed that parents were failing and   asked schools to gradually assume more child-rearing duties. Most teachers love teaching and are happy to help when called upon, but requiring them to parent half their students before beginning to teach is an impossible task. When we adopt public policies that build marriage, we will have a winning recipe for improved outcomes for all.

Teachers cannot insist that children brush their teeth, do their homework, wash their clothes, and go to bed. Yet they are expected to educate sleep-deprived, unprepared, and unmotivated children. Public schools are starting to resemble public orphanages. Bigger government programs, such as the free breakfast and lunch programs are a consequence of marriage-absence. Children should be fed by their parents—the norm in married families.

Rewarding Society-Destroying Behavior
No Child Left Behind, the largest federal education law, will go down in history as one of the greatest academic failures ever because it rested upon several false presumptions. Its passage implied that schools can be forced to produce better outcomes with more testing and completely ignored the consequences of the fundamental domestic failures that drive educational failures.

Our system of college funding encourages illegitimacy and discourages marital responsibility. When calculating how to pay for college for Cynthia’s daughter, she noted having a baby now would secure coverage for her college expenses.    This is only one factor driving the disappearance of the middle class.  Middle-class families are punished for responsible behavior while their children are encouraged to join a struggling underclass unlikely to rise into the middle class.

Restore Economic Competitiveness
Governments ought to protect citizens from tyranny, administrate justice, and build infrastructure. Marriage economics is the bedrock of all successful nations. Economic success requires strong marriages: the word “economy” comes from the Greek word oikonomia, or “management of a household.” America’s academic and economic competitiveness with marriage-based Asian countries depends on restoring marriage as the social norm.

How can we accomplish this critical task? Reforming divorce laws, encouraging shared parenting, and eliminating government incentives for cohabitation and marital irresponsibility will help children in our schools and extricate teachers from serving as surrogate parents. The Center for Marriage Policy has a storehouse of policies to end marriage-destructive policies and encourage positive ones.

It is time for America to discard policies dooming the next generation and replace them with marriage-positive policies. We encourage teachers and legislators to join this historic effort at returning schools to their structural purpose by supporting Marriage Values policies. The success or failure of teaching depends on it.