Dear Chief Justice Roberts;
I understand that the Supreme Court will soon make a decision in regard to the constitutionality of same sex marriage. I urge you to vote in favor of protecting marriage as between a man and a woman.
Please bring my concerns to the attention of the other Supreme Court Justices.
I am not here discussing homosexuals, many of whom contribute generously to their community, but rather considering consequences of homosexuality as a normalized behavior. The profound changes that would be brought about in social integration, social organization, social reproduction and social health warrant caution and serious consideration.
My concern is not that the Bible speaks against homosexuality, but rather why the Bible and countless other societal writings throughout the milleniums have held homosexuality as a social taboo.
The family unit has integrated men and women, children, grandparents and extended relatives in personal, caring and supportive relationships that transcend the generations. Countless research confirms that the greatest sources of nurture, support, and meaning for the majority of Americans are found within the family unit.
The opportunity for the autonomous family to preserve and pass down cultural values to the next generation is the foundation upon which freedom is built. This process develops diversity of perspectives, providing the checks and balances in society which guard against destructive extremes.
The normalization of homosexuality will jeopardize social reproduction. When society changes rapidly it is prudent to inquire, "Who benefits". The commercialization of reproduction through buying of sperm and egg and the creating of children through deliberate planning by professionals (at high cost) will replace the caring and loving union of mother, father, children and grandchildren. This is t;he foundation of eugenics. Whose sperm? Whose egg? As children are taught to accept homosexuality as a normal choice, the intergenerational transfer of genetic and cultural patterns in society becomes jeopardized.
The personal and public health risks associated with homosexual behaviors are deeply troubling. The first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in the U.S. in 1981 within the homosexual community. Since then the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that over 648,000 deaths have occurred, the majority of cases resulting from male-to-male sexual conduct. CDC reports that 77% of those affected with AIDS are male. As bisexuality is listed as a gender choice, the deadly disease has transferred to the heterosexual community .
Syphilis was a disease on the verge of elimination. The CDC reports "...in 2001 it re-emerged as a public health threat because of a resurgence of the disease among men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2008 there were 13,500 reported cases of syphilis." "In 2012, 75% of the reported primary and secondary syphilis cases were among men who have sex with men." Bisexuality brings this disease to women and babies. The syphilis rate in San Antonio has recently broken all recent records and an epidemic of babies have been born with syphilis.
The Supreme Court overturned the sodomy law of Texas. Sodomy contributes to:
95% of AIDS infections among gay men (Commentary, Nov. 1987, pgs. 22-23),
4000% increase in risk of anal cancer (Between the Lines, Sept. 29, 2000), and
860% increase in sexually transmitted diseases (CDC, Sept. 10, 1999).
In the early 1990's the gay agenda sought to promote tolerance of the gay/lesbian lifestyles in the public schools at all levels. To teach children that homosexual behaviors are equivalent to heterosexual behaviors jeopardizes their ability to move into responsible heterosexual and family relationships.
Children have neither the maturity nor background to understand and evaluate this information. Childhood is a time to learn directives for living and growing into mature citizens and healthy and responsible adults. Condoms, with a 14% failure rate (for pregnancy) are handed out freely in schools, even at the junior high level with the implication that sex will be 'safe' if you 'protect' yourself with a condom.
A responsible society must protect the children from behaviors that will endanger them.
Heterosexual family forms have been protected and passed down through centuries of civilizations and in virtually all societies. In every society it is essential to establish and protect laws that will benefit the well-being of the larger society and individuals. The social discourse has been rampant with charges of bigotry, and hate mongering. However, neither claims of tolerance, discrimination, intimidation, nor back slapping love fests are appropriate means to bring about change in social organization that has wide reaching negative consequences.
I have presented two papers at professional meetings related to the considerations listed above. the PDF files of these papers can be downloaded from my website: www.wrestlingwithangels.com under the section "Related Essays".
* Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America (49 pages).
* The Impact of Contemporary Family Life Patterns on the Quality and Stability of Child Rearing (43 pages).
Thank you for your consideration and for the important work you provide for our country.
Sincerely,
Marjorie L. Coppock, Ph..D.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Monday, September 29, 2014
Life Beyond? Researching Near-Death Experiences
Within the last 50 years modern techniques of resuscitation have improved survival rates of people who have been brought back to life after having been pronounced clinically dead. With increases in rates of cardiac resuscitation, the number of reported near-death experiences (NDE's) has increased, drawing a growing number of researchers into the field of near-death studies.
Because these subjective experiences have been objectively non-verifiable, science has dismissed these experiences as personal hallucinations or science fiction. People were reluctant to share their experiences because it was something 'you didn't talk about'.
GROWING INTEREST IN RESEARCHING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
Contemporary interest in the study of NDE's was spurred by writings of psychiatrists, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and George Ritchie and by Dr. Raymond Moody who published his book Life After Life. This book, released in 1975, brought public attention to the topic of NDE's. In 1992, the Gallup Poll reported that 13 Million Americans had stated they had an NDE.
The Louisiana based Near Death Experience Research Foundation has the largest collection of NDE's. Their website contains records of over 3700 NDE experiences in over 23 languages. The North Carolina based International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS), established in 1981, encourages scientific research and education on the ramifications of near-death experiences. IANDS publishes the peer- reviewed Journal of Near Death Studies and the quarterly newsletter Vital Signs. Other scientific and academic journals have published research on NDE's, including: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, British Journal of Psychology, American Journal of Disease of Children, Resuscitation, The Lancet, Death Studies and the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
REPORTED EXPERIENCES FOLLOWING RESUSCITATION
Researchers have identified patterns in these experiences that transcend differences based on age and cultural backgrounds. While not every NDE includes all of these, frequently reported experiences include:
* awareness of being dead,
* looking down on one's own body from above
* moving through a dark tunnel
* movement toward a brilliant light
* an overwhelming sense of peace, well-being and love
* reuniting with deceased loved ones
* meeting with 'spiritual guides'
* receiving a life review
* approaching a border with a decision or request to return to one's body.
While most NDE's include pleasurable experiences, some distressing experiences have been reported, dominated by feelings of fear, terror, horror, anger, loneliness, isolation, and/or guilt.
CHANGES IN OUTLOOK ON LIFE
NDE's are associated with changes in personality and outlook on life. Psychologist Kenneth Ring identified changes in values and beliefs. There included a greater appreciation for life, higher self-esteem, greater compassion for others, increased sense of purpose, spiritual awareness, and a desire to learn. Those who had experienced a distressing NDE often change their life patterns and turn their lives in a positive direction.
Many who experience an NDE see it as verification of life after death, saying that they felt more alive in this experience than in the earthly life.
RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES CONTINUES TO INCREASE
A growing number of researchers in the field of near-death studies contend that consciousness may continue to exist after death. Other researchers are more skeptical, claiming that changes occurring in the brain cause these experiences.
Dr. Pim van Lommel researches NDE's that are reported by cardiology patients in the Netherlands. He found that of 344 consecutive cardiac patients who were successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest, 62 patients reported a NDE. It is unclear why so few cardiac patients report NDE after CPR. But he concludes that if it were a purely physiological explanation, most patients who were clinically dead should report one.
As reports of near-death experience occur more frequently with the increase in survival rates resulting from resuscitation, questions are raised as to the cause and meaning of these experiences. The field on near-death studies is drawing a growing number of researchers, including fields of psychology, psychiatry, and medicine, who are interested in the study of near-death experience as phenomena.
REFERENCES:
* Blackmore, Susan. 1993. Dying To Live: Near-Death Experiences. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
* MacDonald, G. Jeffrey. Jan. 15, 2011. "Near death experiences being studied as more than sci-fi." San Antonio Express-News.:4B.
* IANDS - International Association for Near-death Studies. 9/1/2014. "Distressing Near-Death Experiences." http://iands.org/distressing-near-death-experiences.html.
* Moody, Raymond A. Jr., M.D. 1975. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon-Survival of Bodily Death. Marietta, GA: Mockingbird Press.
* Pim van Lommel, Ruud van Wees, Vincent Meyers, and Ingrid Elfferich. December 15, 2001. " Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands." The Lancet. Vol 358:2039-2045.
* Pim van Lommel, M.D. 2010. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. New York, NY: Harper One.
* Sartori, Dr. Penny. 2014. The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs can Help us Live More Fully. Oxford, UK: Watkins Publishing.
* Wikipedia. 9/1/2014. Near-death experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience.
*Williams, Kevin. 9/1/2014. Dr. Melvin Morse. http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts06.html.
Because these subjective experiences have been objectively non-verifiable, science has dismissed these experiences as personal hallucinations or science fiction. People were reluctant to share their experiences because it was something 'you didn't talk about'.
GROWING INTEREST IN RESEARCHING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
Contemporary interest in the study of NDE's was spurred by writings of psychiatrists, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and George Ritchie and by Dr. Raymond Moody who published his book Life After Life. This book, released in 1975, brought public attention to the topic of NDE's. In 1992, the Gallup Poll reported that 13 Million Americans had stated they had an NDE.
The Louisiana based Near Death Experience Research Foundation has the largest collection of NDE's. Their website contains records of over 3700 NDE experiences in over 23 languages. The North Carolina based International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS), established in 1981, encourages scientific research and education on the ramifications of near-death experiences. IANDS publishes the peer- reviewed Journal of Near Death Studies and the quarterly newsletter Vital Signs. Other scientific and academic journals have published research on NDE's, including: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, British Journal of Psychology, American Journal of Disease of Children, Resuscitation, The Lancet, Death Studies and the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
REPORTED EXPERIENCES FOLLOWING RESUSCITATION
Researchers have identified patterns in these experiences that transcend differences based on age and cultural backgrounds. While not every NDE includes all of these, frequently reported experiences include:
* awareness of being dead,
* looking down on one's own body from above
* moving through a dark tunnel
* movement toward a brilliant light
* an overwhelming sense of peace, well-being and love
* reuniting with deceased loved ones
* meeting with 'spiritual guides'
* receiving a life review
* approaching a border with a decision or request to return to one's body.
While most NDE's include pleasurable experiences, some distressing experiences have been reported, dominated by feelings of fear, terror, horror, anger, loneliness, isolation, and/or guilt.
CHANGES IN OUTLOOK ON LIFE
NDE's are associated with changes in personality and outlook on life. Psychologist Kenneth Ring identified changes in values and beliefs. There included a greater appreciation for life, higher self-esteem, greater compassion for others, increased sense of purpose, spiritual awareness, and a desire to learn. Those who had experienced a distressing NDE often change their life patterns and turn their lives in a positive direction.
Many who experience an NDE see it as verification of life after death, saying that they felt more alive in this experience than in the earthly life.
RESEARCH INTO NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES CONTINUES TO INCREASE
A growing number of researchers in the field of near-death studies contend that consciousness may continue to exist after death. Other researchers are more skeptical, claiming that changes occurring in the brain cause these experiences.
Dr. Pim van Lommel researches NDE's that are reported by cardiology patients in the Netherlands. He found that of 344 consecutive cardiac patients who were successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest, 62 patients reported a NDE. It is unclear why so few cardiac patients report NDE after CPR. But he concludes that if it were a purely physiological explanation, most patients who were clinically dead should report one.
As reports of near-death experience occur more frequently with the increase in survival rates resulting from resuscitation, questions are raised as to the cause and meaning of these experiences. The field on near-death studies is drawing a growing number of researchers, including fields of psychology, psychiatry, and medicine, who are interested in the study of near-death experience as phenomena.
REFERENCES:
* Blackmore, Susan. 1993. Dying To Live: Near-Death Experiences. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
* MacDonald, G. Jeffrey. Jan. 15, 2011. "Near death experiences being studied as more than sci-fi." San Antonio Express-News.:4B.
* IANDS - International Association for Near-death Studies. 9/1/2014. "Distressing Near-Death Experiences." http://iands.org/distressing-near-death-experiences.html.
* Moody, Raymond A. Jr., M.D. 1975. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon-Survival of Bodily Death. Marietta, GA: Mockingbird Press.
* Pim van Lommel, Ruud van Wees, Vincent Meyers, and Ingrid Elfferich. December 15, 2001. " Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands." The Lancet. Vol 358:2039-2045.
* Pim van Lommel, M.D. 2010. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. New York, NY: Harper One.
* Sartori, Dr. Penny. 2014. The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs can Help us Live More Fully. Oxford, UK: Watkins Publishing.
* Wikipedia. 9/1/2014. Near-death experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience.
*Williams, Kevin. 9/1/2014. Dr. Melvin Morse. http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts06.html.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Charitable Deductions - The Foundation for Personal and Social Freedom
In considering policy decisions regarding budget and tax reform, charitable deductions should be protected as our foundation for personal and social freedom.
100 YEAR TRADITION
Congress enacted the charitable deduction in 1917, shortly after passage of the permanent income tax, to encourage the continuance of private giving to the community. 1.
For nearly 100 years charitable deductions have encouraged Americans to make decisions about the social programs that are best providing resources for the well-being of the community and country and to contribute monetary support for their continuance.
PERSONAL CHOICE -SOURCE OF INNOVATION AND SOCIAL BETTERMENT
This opportunity to contribute to the social organization of their choice has encouraged and motivated citizens to take an interest in their community and an interest in volunteering to support and contribute to social betterment.
Charitable deductions have been a source of innovation for programs of social betterment through nonprofit organizations. These groups support education, religion, health, scientific breakthroughs, crisis relief, music, art, literature, recreation, youth activities and a multitude of other interests.
When giving is a personal choice, donors are encouraged to volunteer their time and money to support the interests of their choice. The foundation of our freedom rests on the assurance that we know better than government bureaucracies what best serves our values and needs.
NONPROFITS AT RISK
Americans are a generous and giving people. However, according to a recent United Way poll, nearly two-thirds of the respondents say that without the charitable tax deduction they would have to reduce their giving significantly. Many nonprofits that are supplying vital services to the community would find it necessary to reduce or abandon their efforts. Billions of dollars of donations could be put at risk, undermining America's nonprofits and the people who are supported by them. 2.
PROTECT AMERICA'S STRENGTH
The strength of America lies in the wisdom of its citizens to care for the well-being of the communities in which they live through nonprofits, philanthropy, and personal charity.
We need to protect the American citizens' ability to continue these responsible contributions by protecting charitable tax deductions.
References:
1. Carson, Emmett D. "Charitable deduction should be the last thing Congress cuts." San Jose Mercury News.
2. Biemesderfer, David. Hansen, Teri A and Jerde, Roxie. "Guest Columnists: Don't cut charitable deduction." Herald-Tribune. Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
100 YEAR TRADITION
Congress enacted the charitable deduction in 1917, shortly after passage of the permanent income tax, to encourage the continuance of private giving to the community. 1.
For nearly 100 years charitable deductions have encouraged Americans to make decisions about the social programs that are best providing resources for the well-being of the community and country and to contribute monetary support for their continuance.
PERSONAL CHOICE -SOURCE OF INNOVATION AND SOCIAL BETTERMENT
This opportunity to contribute to the social organization of their choice has encouraged and motivated citizens to take an interest in their community and an interest in volunteering to support and contribute to social betterment.
Charitable deductions have been a source of innovation for programs of social betterment through nonprofit organizations. These groups support education, religion, health, scientific breakthroughs, crisis relief, music, art, literature, recreation, youth activities and a multitude of other interests.
When giving is a personal choice, donors are encouraged to volunteer their time and money to support the interests of their choice. The foundation of our freedom rests on the assurance that we know better than government bureaucracies what best serves our values and needs.
NONPROFITS AT RISK
Americans are a generous and giving people. However, according to a recent United Way poll, nearly two-thirds of the respondents say that without the charitable tax deduction they would have to reduce their giving significantly. Many nonprofits that are supplying vital services to the community would find it necessary to reduce or abandon their efforts. Billions of dollars of donations could be put at risk, undermining America's nonprofits and the people who are supported by them. 2.
PROTECT AMERICA'S STRENGTH
The strength of America lies in the wisdom of its citizens to care for the well-being of the communities in which they live through nonprofits, philanthropy, and personal charity.
We need to protect the American citizens' ability to continue these responsible contributions by protecting charitable tax deductions.
References:
1. Carson, Emmett D. "Charitable deduction should be the last thing Congress cuts." San Jose Mercury News.
2. Biemesderfer, David. Hansen, Teri A and Jerde, Roxie. "Guest Columnists: Don't cut charitable deduction." Herald-Tribune. Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Chipping Away at Our Moral Foundation
Recently I was sorting my files and I came across an article written by my Father in 1980. As I read it I realized how appropriately it speaks to contemporary social concerns. I reproduce his concerns here.
THE RELIGION OF MORALISTIC CHIPS
by Weston Hare March 20, 1980
The Thesis of this essay is:
The inherent morality of the Christian religion has been, to a considerable degree, been put on the museum shelf and a superficial morality made up of "chips", slogans and decals has replaced it.
A minor example would be the smiling face symbol. A more general example would be the "Rights" explosion. You may think that these are flowers and fruits of Christianity growing on the Christian tree.
Well, let us consider this.
The basis of the morals of Christianity and Judaism are the Commandments of God: "Thou shalt not kill", etc. Start with that one. The U.S. Supreme Court recently said: It is proper to kill children before birth at the will of the mother.
Now, last I heard, we kill 1,200,000 babies each year by abortion. Why would the Supreme Court undertake to become conspirators - before-the- fact - of annual "Megamurder" (mega meaning a million)?
If God believes abortion to be killing, why should they legalize that? Taking an awful chance, aren't they?
Well, the reason for doing so is clear from the next Commandment.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery".
Clearly the Moralistic Chip religion has to squirm out of that one, because they have all sorts of ideas beyond THAT barrier. To rationalize these ideas, they invented birth control. And they reason that if unwanted children do not result from disobeying this Commandment, surely God would excuse us for putting this also on the shelf.
Because, Love, they say is of God.
At this point, they have fallen into a trap invented hundreds of years ago, when the English language made the word - LOVE- much broader in meaning than Greek & Latin words.
The English word came to include three Greek words for lust, unselfish love and marital love. The King James version of the Bible (370 years ago) avoided this trap by using the word "CHARITY" for unselfish love.
But, by the turn of the century and probably earlier 'love' often included all three. So, now, at this date, in many high places, the word includes adultery and even homosexuality.
God disapproves of the former and according to the Bible (even newer versions) literally 'hates' the latter.
So I guess it is a trap, all right. So they put that Commandment regarding adultery on the shelf and have many superficial chips or decals to take its place.
Take another Commandment "Thou shalt not covet - anything that is thy neighbor's".
That is a pretty good one for getting along together. But it is too much for the 'chips' religion.
It has been substituted by the "Rights" explosion of moralistic chips.
Now we are told among other things that it is our Right (nay, duty) to sue anyone (especially large organizations or insurance companies) for millions of dollars, it any of our "Rights" defined by the chips are violated.
Clearly, if a person may gain more by having some "Rights" violated than he could earn by a lifetime of hard work, no-one would fail to covet things belonging to his neighbor.
Therefore, the Rights Explosion (Let the chips fall where they may) is nothing but a Pig Factory making the people more like pigs than people. The word "Sue-ee" has long been used to assemble pigs. Ask any farmer.
The Rights explosion also destroys families and the normal passing along of social principles.
Children have 'rights' and need not obey their parents, they may sue their parents, or have contempt for them. They are to call - 800 - numbers if they think they are abused in any way. Therefore there must be a tendency to let the kids go uninstructed. Good parents may produce unworthy children because they are talked out of "bringing up children in the way they should go" and the children are talked out of believing them anyway.
So here we have another Commandment put on the museum shelf: "Honor thy father and thy mother."
Enough of that for the present,
but of what does this situation - The Moralistic Chips Religion - remind one?
Clearly it reminds one of the legalistic "Chips Religion" taught, in place of the laws given to Moses, by the Pharisees when Jesus came to the earth. Jesus went to great extremes to condemn the Pharisees (as children of Hell, sons of Satan, hypocrites, blind leaders of the blind, a generation of vipers, etc. etc.)
They had made up a large number of replacement rules (chips) which essentially put the basic mosaic laws aside and substituted others, which often relieved the leaders from obeying them.
I have not studied them in detail but clearly they were offensive to Jesus.
It seems to me that we are now being given by the Moral Establishment a similar, substituted, superficial religion which may well be no more respected by Jesus than the Pharisee's religion was then.
It would be wise to shy away from the Chips Religion and adhere to the more deeply seated program of the Bible.
Then, should Jesus return to the earth, we would be on His side, rather than on that of the Neo-Pharisees who seem to be in charge of much of the teaching today.
THE RELIGION OF MORALISTIC CHIPS
by Weston Hare March 20, 1980
The Thesis of this essay is:
The inherent morality of the Christian religion has been, to a considerable degree, been put on the museum shelf and a superficial morality made up of "chips", slogans and decals has replaced it.
A minor example would be the smiling face symbol. A more general example would be the "Rights" explosion. You may think that these are flowers and fruits of Christianity growing on the Christian tree.
Well, let us consider this.
The basis of the morals of Christianity and Judaism are the Commandments of God: "Thou shalt not kill", etc. Start with that one. The U.S. Supreme Court recently said: It is proper to kill children before birth at the will of the mother.
Now, last I heard, we kill 1,200,000 babies each year by abortion. Why would the Supreme Court undertake to become conspirators - before-the- fact - of annual "Megamurder" (mega meaning a million)?
If God believes abortion to be killing, why should they legalize that? Taking an awful chance, aren't they?
Well, the reason for doing so is clear from the next Commandment.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery".
Clearly the Moralistic Chip religion has to squirm out of that one, because they have all sorts of ideas beyond THAT barrier. To rationalize these ideas, they invented birth control. And they reason that if unwanted children do not result from disobeying this Commandment, surely God would excuse us for putting this also on the shelf.
Because, Love, they say is of God.
At this point, they have fallen into a trap invented hundreds of years ago, when the English language made the word - LOVE- much broader in meaning than Greek & Latin words.
The English word came to include three Greek words for lust, unselfish love and marital love. The King James version of the Bible (370 years ago) avoided this trap by using the word "CHARITY" for unselfish love.
But, by the turn of the century and probably earlier 'love' often included all three. So, now, at this date, in many high places, the word includes adultery and even homosexuality.
God disapproves of the former and according to the Bible (even newer versions) literally 'hates' the latter.
So I guess it is a trap, all right. So they put that Commandment regarding adultery on the shelf and have many superficial chips or decals to take its place.
Take another Commandment "Thou shalt not covet - anything that is thy neighbor's".
That is a pretty good one for getting along together. But it is too much for the 'chips' religion.
It has been substituted by the "Rights" explosion of moralistic chips.
Now we are told among other things that it is our Right (nay, duty) to sue anyone (especially large organizations or insurance companies) for millions of dollars, it any of our "Rights" defined by the chips are violated.
Clearly, if a person may gain more by having some "Rights" violated than he could earn by a lifetime of hard work, no-one would fail to covet things belonging to his neighbor.
Therefore, the Rights Explosion (Let the chips fall where they may) is nothing but a Pig Factory making the people more like pigs than people. The word "Sue-ee" has long been used to assemble pigs. Ask any farmer.
The Rights explosion also destroys families and the normal passing along of social principles.
Children have 'rights' and need not obey their parents, they may sue their parents, or have contempt for them. They are to call - 800 - numbers if they think they are abused in any way. Therefore there must be a tendency to let the kids go uninstructed. Good parents may produce unworthy children because they are talked out of "bringing up children in the way they should go" and the children are talked out of believing them anyway.
So here we have another Commandment put on the museum shelf: "Honor thy father and thy mother."
Enough of that for the present,
but of what does this situation - The Moralistic Chips Religion - remind one?
Clearly it reminds one of the legalistic "Chips Religion" taught, in place of the laws given to Moses, by the Pharisees when Jesus came to the earth. Jesus went to great extremes to condemn the Pharisees (as children of Hell, sons of Satan, hypocrites, blind leaders of the blind, a generation of vipers, etc. etc.)
They had made up a large number of replacement rules (chips) which essentially put the basic mosaic laws aside and substituted others, which often relieved the leaders from obeying them.
I have not studied them in detail but clearly they were offensive to Jesus.
It seems to me that we are now being given by the Moral Establishment a similar, substituted, superficial religion which may well be no more respected by Jesus than the Pharisee's religion was then.
It would be wise to shy away from the Chips Religion and adhere to the more deeply seated program of the Bible.
Then, should Jesus return to the earth, we would be on His side, rather than on that of the Neo-Pharisees who seem to be in charge of much of the teaching today.
Monday, April 8, 2013
An Open Letter to the Boy Scouts of America National Council
Dear Leaders and Friends of Boy Scouts of America;
I encourage the National Council of Boy Scouts of America to uphold the ban on gay leaders when it votes in May. As a cub scout leader and scout mother in the 1970's and now a scout grandmother, I am concerned that this change in behavioral expectations for our sons will undermine the foundations of moral, religious and family values in our country.
As a professor of sociology, now retired, I have given considerable thought to examining this issue from the differing perspectives. I am enclosing a paper presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings in 2010.
The PDF file of this paper - "Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America" is located on my website, www.wrestlingwithangels.com. It can be downloaded on to electronic readers at no cost.
Concerns are summarized on page 1. "The normalization of homosexuality in society will create profound changes in social organization, especially in the areas of social integration, social reproduction, social health and the inter-generational transfer of cultural values. The social discourse has been rampant with charges of bigotry, hate mongering and charges of homophobia. However, neither intimidation, tolerance nor back slapping love fests are appropriate means to bring about change in social behavior that has wide reaching consequences."
Personal concerns are outlined in two articles from my blogsite. "On Telling Children to Play in the Traffic" (Sept. 3, 2012) and "Prude Pride - Restoring Sexual Sanity" (Sept. 27, 2012).
"For God and Country" has been a foundational motto for the Boy Scouts. The normalization of homosexuality would place the Boy Scouts at odds with religious family values, making it inappropriate to support and protect these values within the organization.
Thank you for your consideration of these concerns.
Marjorie L. Coppock, Ph.D.
I encourage the National Council of Boy Scouts of America to uphold the ban on gay leaders when it votes in May. As a cub scout leader and scout mother in the 1970's and now a scout grandmother, I am concerned that this change in behavioral expectations for our sons will undermine the foundations of moral, religious and family values in our country.
As a professor of sociology, now retired, I have given considerable thought to examining this issue from the differing perspectives. I am enclosing a paper presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings in 2010.
The PDF file of this paper - "Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America" is located on my website, www.wrestlingwithangels.com. It can be downloaded on to electronic readers at no cost.
Concerns are summarized on page 1. "The normalization of homosexuality in society will create profound changes in social organization, especially in the areas of social integration, social reproduction, social health and the inter-generational transfer of cultural values. The social discourse has been rampant with charges of bigotry, hate mongering and charges of homophobia. However, neither intimidation, tolerance nor back slapping love fests are appropriate means to bring about change in social behavior that has wide reaching consequences."
Personal concerns are outlined in two articles from my blogsite. "On Telling Children to Play in the Traffic" (Sept. 3, 2012) and "Prude Pride - Restoring Sexual Sanity" (Sept. 27, 2012).
"For God and Country" has been a foundational motto for the Boy Scouts. The normalization of homosexuality would place the Boy Scouts at odds with religious family values, making it inappropriate to support and protect these values within the organization.
Thank you for your consideration of these concerns.
Marjorie L. Coppock, Ph.D.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wrestling With Angels on the Web at No Cost
After retiring from teaching sociology in 2002, I was concerned about how quickly social and moral values and public legislation were changing from support for stable family relationships to sexual license and family dissolution. I spent the next year pulling together information for my book Wrestling With Angels - The Sexual Revolution Confronts the Church.
Wrestling With Angels, published in April of 2003, examines the last 60 years to document:
1) the influences that encouraged or resisted changes in sexual and family patterns;
2) the consequences for individuals and society;
3) how these changes in behavior affected Judeo/Christian policies and practices; and
4) how different religious organizations responded to these changing behaviors.
Organizations and individuals responsible for encouraging or resisting these changes are identified and discussed. Chapters include discussions on radical feminism, sex education in the schools, childhood sexual abuse, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, divorce, sexual misconduct in the church, reproductive technologies, and changing influences within seminaries.
While each chapter is discussed sociologically, identifying different perspectives and how denominations are responding in various ways, I conclude as a concerned Christian mother in regard to the consequences of these changing behaviors for individuals, families and religious practices.
The original printing of 2500 books has been sold and distributed.
** The PDF file of the book is now located on the website: www.wrestlingwithangels.com.
The book can be downloaded on to electronic readers at no cost.
You are welcome to do so.
*********************************************
Also available to be downloaded from this website at no cost are related professional papers I have presented at meetings, Including:
*Pornifying America: Rape of the Culture and What Can Be Done
*Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America
*AmeriNazification: The Doubling of the American Soul
*Eugenics: The Ethical Dilemma of Reproductive Technology
* Who's Rocking the Cradle? From Procreation to Production
*Abortion Divides the Nation
* Bias and Error in the Death Penalty
*Euthanasia Comes to the United States
*******************************************
You are invited to consider these significant social issues and to invite your thoughtful family, friends and colleagues to join you.
Having recently purchased an electronic reader, I have become aware of the convenience and efficiency of electronic books and reading material.
Wrestling With Angels, published in April of 2003, examines the last 60 years to document:
1) the influences that encouraged or resisted changes in sexual and family patterns;
2) the consequences for individuals and society;
3) how these changes in behavior affected Judeo/Christian policies and practices; and
4) how different religious organizations responded to these changing behaviors.
Organizations and individuals responsible for encouraging or resisting these changes are identified and discussed. Chapters include discussions on radical feminism, sex education in the schools, childhood sexual abuse, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, divorce, sexual misconduct in the church, reproductive technologies, and changing influences within seminaries.
While each chapter is discussed sociologically, identifying different perspectives and how denominations are responding in various ways, I conclude as a concerned Christian mother in regard to the consequences of these changing behaviors for individuals, families and religious practices.
The original printing of 2500 books has been sold and distributed.
** The PDF file of the book is now located on the website: www.wrestlingwithangels.com.
The book can be downloaded on to electronic readers at no cost.
You are welcome to do so.
*********************************************
Also available to be downloaded from this website at no cost are related professional papers I have presented at meetings, Including:
*Pornifying America: Rape of the Culture and What Can Be Done
*Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America
*AmeriNazification: The Doubling of the American Soul
*Eugenics: The Ethical Dilemma of Reproductive Technology
* Who's Rocking the Cradle? From Procreation to Production
*Abortion Divides the Nation
* Bias and Error in the Death Penalty
*Euthanasia Comes to the United States
*******************************************
You are invited to consider these significant social issues and to invite your thoughtful family, friends and colleagues to join you.
Having recently purchased an electronic reader, I have become aware of the convenience and efficiency of electronic books and reading material.
Monday, September 3, 2012
On Telling Children to Play in the Traffic
To tell a child to play in the traffic would be considered a criminal offense. Parents who would engage in this advice would have their children taken by the state.
However, this is essentially the dangerous advice that is being directed toward children by homosexual activists and 'politically correct' educators who seek to portray homosexuality to children as an equally acceptable lifestyle.
QUEERING ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
In the early 1990's the gay agenda sought to promote tolerance of the gay/lesbian lifestyles in the public schools, pushing the schools to promote these lifestyles as equal to heterosexuality. Under the guidance of its' founder, Kevin Jennings, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) registered more than 4,000 Gay-Straight Alliance clubs on junior and senior high school campuses. 1.
Kevin Jennings wrote the forward to the book, Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and School. This book includes essays from gay and lesbian educators that advocate teaching acceptance of homosexuality, even in elementary school and kindergarten.
When President Obama was making appointments to government positions, he appointed Kevin Jennings as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Education, heading the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. 2.
Condoms, with a 14% failure rate, are handed out freely in schools, even at the junior high level with the implication that sex will be 'safe' if you 'protect' yourself with a condom. 3.
However, questions need to be raised at all levels about the wisdom of the normalization of homosexual behaviors, especially among the young.
THE FACTS RELATED TO THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE TELL A DANGEROUS STORY.
Reports from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that homosexual behaviors, especially those involving men having sex with men, are extraordinarily more dangerous than heterosexual behaviors.
SYPHILIS AND ANAL CANCER INCREASE.
Sexually transmitted diseases have been increasing among gay and bisexual men. Syphilis was a disease that was on the verge of elimination. In 2001 it re-emerged as a public health threat because of a resurgence of the disease among men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2008 there were 13,500 reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis. MSM accounted for 63% of these syphilis cases in the United States.
"Men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who are uninfected to develop anal cancer." 4.
DEATHS FROM HIV/AIDS
The HIV/AIDS virus is primarily spread by men having sex with men. Blacks are particularly represented in this health epidemic. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2008) documented that "Forty-five percent of infections were among black individuals and 53% among men who have sex with men." 5.
The estimated numbers of AIDS diagnoses, deaths, and persons living with AIDS, cumulative from the beginning of the epidemic (1981) through 2007, were reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as 562,793 deaths from AIDS and 1,018,428 AIDS diagnoses. 6.
***HIV CASES INCREASE AMONG YOUTH.
While the number of new HIV cases remained relatively stable at 50,000 new cases each year "the number of new cases among people aged 13-29 years increased by 21% from 2006 to 2009. The rise in HIV incidence among young adults was fueled by a 34 percent increase in HIV infections among young gay and bisexual men. 7.
STUDIES CONFIRM DANGEROUS SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
The Gay Report 8.
The Gay Report was published in 1979 by two homosexual researchers, feminist Karla Jay and journalist Allan Young. The 850 page report summarized responses from 5,400 lesbians and gay men who completed a 16 page questionnaire about their sexual behaviors. When the report was published, it was hailed as the "first comprehensive survey of the homosexual community."
The Gay Report was modeled after informal sex surveys in popular magazines of the 1970's and 1980's which encouraged readers to report their sexual activities. The Gay Report was a similar survey of gays and lesbians. While the report does not represent a scientifically designed sample - the responses represent only a small percentage of gays - the respondents and the authors of the study were surprisingly candid in describing behaviors and depicting a sexually-active society.
"35% of respondents admitted to having had 100 or more sexual partners throughout their lives...59% had taken part in orgies or group sex. 38% had partaken of sadomasochistic practices at least once" 9.
"Around 99% of homosexual males engage in oral sex; 91% engage in anal sex; 82% engage in 'rimming', touching the anus of one's partner with one's tongue and inserting the tongue into the anus; 22% engage in 'fisting', inserting one's fist into the rectum of the partner, 23% engage in 'golden showers', urinating on each other..." 10.
The responses to the survey were startling and the book became a popular resource for those concerned about the movement in society to normalize homosexual behaviors.
RISKY BEHAVIORS CAUSE CONCERN. 11.
Studies describing health risks associated with homosexual practices were highlighted in the June 2003 edition of the Journal of the American Public Health. Bad news was reported in one article after another.
Beryl A. Koblan and associates reported on alarming data from Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, San Francisco and Seattle involving HIV-negative homosexual men who reported engaging in anal sex with one or more partners in the previous year. Among 4,295 men, 48% reported unprotected receptive anal sex and 54.9% reported unprotected insertive anal sex. Drug and alcohol use were significantly associated with unprotected anal sex.
A study by Daniel H. Ciccarone and associates indicated that sex without disclosure of HIV status is common among persons living with HIV. Their study reported that 45,300 gay or bisexual men, 8,000 heterosexual men and 7,500 women who were HIV infected, were also engaging in sex without disclosure of their HIV status.
A U.S. metropolitan study of six sites reported that 93% of African American men who were HIV infected did not know they had the virus. This study by David J. Malebranche contradicted the view that 'coming out' is associated with better mental health, responsible behavior and lower rates of HIV infection. African-American men who disclosed their homosexuality had a higher HIV prevalence (24%) and engaged in more unprotected anal sex (41%) than those who did not disclose (14% and 32% respectively).
J. Michael Bailey discussed the research on homosexuality and mental illness in the Archives of General Psychiatry. He concluded that "Homosexual people are at substantially higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including suicidality, major depression and anxiety disorder".
This conclusion was corroborated by a large, well-conducted study from the Netherlands that was published in Archives of Psychiatry, 2001. The Dutch society is recognized as one of the most gay tolerant in the world. Yet the risk for mental illness by those engaging in homosexuality is significantly higher than among heterosexuals in that country.
LIFE EXPECTANCY REDUCED 12.
A study published in 1997 examined vital statistics data for a large Canadian urban center from 1987 to 1992. "The main outcome measures of interest were age-specific patterns of death, life expectancy, and life expectancy lost due to HIV/AIDS at exact age 20 years, and the probability of living from age 20 to 65 years." Three groups were studied with proportions of gay and bisexual men of 3%, 6% and 9%.
Results confirmed that "age-specific mortality was significantly higher for gay and bisexual men than all men aged 30-44. Life expectancy at age 20 for gay and bisexual men ranged from 34.0 years to 46.3 years for the 3% and 9% scenarios respectively. These were lower than the 54.3 year life expectancy at 20 for all men." It was concluded that "life expectancy at age 20 is 8 to 20 years less than for all men" and that nearly half of gay and bisexual men aged 20 would not reach their 65th birthday.
This study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, concluded that "under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871."
FACING THE FACTS
The facts related to health concerns of homosexual behaviors demonstrate dangers as significant as smoking and drinking.
We are being asked, even required, to accept the normalization of homosexual behaviors in our society. Schools are teaching the acceptance of these behaviors to our children in the name of tolerance. However the dangerous facts related to consequences are swept under the rug.
Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. Dangerous facts ignored return to destroy.
If we cannot face the facts and protect our children from dangerous behaviors, our future and our children's futures will be stabbed in the back by our carelessness.
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL ABUSE
"...we now live in a sexually tolerant society whose members are willing to live and let live. But one idea remains sacrosanct. In all public discourse, agreement exists that children are to be kept innocent of the sexual interests of adults, because they will be inevitably and irreparably damaged if exposed to them." 13.
"Passing out condoms to teenagers is like issuing squirt guns for a four-alarm blaze. Condoms just don't hack it. We should stop kidding ourselves." 14.
A responsible society must protect the children from behaviors that will endanger them. Childhood is a time to learn directions for living and growing into mature citizens and healthy and responsible adults.
To teach children that homosexual behaviors are equivalent to heterosexual behaviors jeopardizes their ability to move into responsible heterosexual and family relationships.
Children have neither the maturity nor background to understand and evaluate this information.
To teach children that dangerous sexual behaviors are normative and acceptable behaviors is equivalent to sexual child abuse.
REFERENCES:
1. GLSEN. "Our Mission, Our History". http://www.glsen/org/chi-bin/iowa/all/about/history/index.html.
1/21/2012.
2. Lucas, Fred. "Obama's Safe Schools Czar Advocated 'Queering Elementary Education'"
www.cnsnews.com/node/56196. October 27, 2009.
3. Workshop Summary: Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
June 12-13, 2000. http://www.3.nlaid.nih.gov/about/organization/dmid/PDF/condomreport.
4. "Sexually Transmitted Diseases." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdcgov/msmhealth/STD.htm. August 7, 2012.
5. "Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States". JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical
Association. http://jama.ama-asso.org/cgi/content/short/300/5/520.
6. "HIV/AIDS in the United States" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. October 17, 2009.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm.
7. "HIV/AIDS" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/HIV.htm.
August 7, 2012.
8. Burroway, Jim. "The Gay Report". Box Turtle Bulletin. October 15, 2006.
www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,005.htm.
Fox, F. Earle. "The Homosexual Debate - in the Public Arena."
http://www.earstohear.net/Separation/facts.html. Page 11. 10/18/2009.
9. Ibid, Burroway, Jim
10.Ibid. Fox, F. Earle
11. Byrd, A. Dean. "The American Journal of Public Health Highlights Risks of Homosexual
Practices." NARTH. http://www.narth.com/docs/risks.html. 1/10/2010.
12. Hogg,R.S., S.A.Strathdee, K.J. Craib, M.V.O'Shaughnessy, J.S. Montaner and M.T.Schecter.
"Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men." International
Journal of Epidemiology (1997) 26 (3): 657-661. www.ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/657.
abstract.
13. Ericksen, Julia. "Sexual liberation's last frontier." Society. Vol. 37, No. 4 (May/June) 2000:22.
14. Quotation by Dr. Robert C. Noble of the University of Kentucky. Quoted in: "Pastoral letter
chides safe sex stance." by Bishop Rene H. Gracida. Laredo Morning Times. Nov. 23, 1991.
Editorial page.
However, this is essentially the dangerous advice that is being directed toward children by homosexual activists and 'politically correct' educators who seek to portray homosexuality to children as an equally acceptable lifestyle.
QUEERING ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
In the early 1990's the gay agenda sought to promote tolerance of the gay/lesbian lifestyles in the public schools, pushing the schools to promote these lifestyles as equal to heterosexuality. Under the guidance of its' founder, Kevin Jennings, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) registered more than 4,000 Gay-Straight Alliance clubs on junior and senior high school campuses. 1.
Kevin Jennings wrote the forward to the book, Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and School. This book includes essays from gay and lesbian educators that advocate teaching acceptance of homosexuality, even in elementary school and kindergarten.
When President Obama was making appointments to government positions, he appointed Kevin Jennings as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Education, heading the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. 2.
Condoms, with a 14% failure rate, are handed out freely in schools, even at the junior high level with the implication that sex will be 'safe' if you 'protect' yourself with a condom. 3.
However, questions need to be raised at all levels about the wisdom of the normalization of homosexual behaviors, especially among the young.
THE FACTS RELATED TO THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE TELL A DANGEROUS STORY.
Reports from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that homosexual behaviors, especially those involving men having sex with men, are extraordinarily more dangerous than heterosexual behaviors.
SYPHILIS AND ANAL CANCER INCREASE.
Sexually transmitted diseases have been increasing among gay and bisexual men. Syphilis was a disease that was on the verge of elimination. In 2001 it re-emerged as a public health threat because of a resurgence of the disease among men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2008 there were 13,500 reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis. MSM accounted for 63% of these syphilis cases in the United States.
"Men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who are uninfected to develop anal cancer." 4.
DEATHS FROM HIV/AIDS
The HIV/AIDS virus is primarily spread by men having sex with men. Blacks are particularly represented in this health epidemic. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2008) documented that "Forty-five percent of infections were among black individuals and 53% among men who have sex with men." 5.
The estimated numbers of AIDS diagnoses, deaths, and persons living with AIDS, cumulative from the beginning of the epidemic (1981) through 2007, were reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as 562,793 deaths from AIDS and 1,018,428 AIDS diagnoses. 6.
***HIV CASES INCREASE AMONG YOUTH.
While the number of new HIV cases remained relatively stable at 50,000 new cases each year "the number of new cases among people aged 13-29 years increased by 21% from 2006 to 2009. The rise in HIV incidence among young adults was fueled by a 34 percent increase in HIV infections among young gay and bisexual men. 7.
STUDIES CONFIRM DANGEROUS SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
The Gay Report 8.
The Gay Report was published in 1979 by two homosexual researchers, feminist Karla Jay and journalist Allan Young. The 850 page report summarized responses from 5,400 lesbians and gay men who completed a 16 page questionnaire about their sexual behaviors. When the report was published, it was hailed as the "first comprehensive survey of the homosexual community."
The Gay Report was modeled after informal sex surveys in popular magazines of the 1970's and 1980's which encouraged readers to report their sexual activities. The Gay Report was a similar survey of gays and lesbians. While the report does not represent a scientifically designed sample - the responses represent only a small percentage of gays - the respondents and the authors of the study were surprisingly candid in describing behaviors and depicting a sexually-active society.
"35% of respondents admitted to having had 100 or more sexual partners throughout their lives...59% had taken part in orgies or group sex. 38% had partaken of sadomasochistic practices at least once" 9.
"Around 99% of homosexual males engage in oral sex; 91% engage in anal sex; 82% engage in 'rimming', touching the anus of one's partner with one's tongue and inserting the tongue into the anus; 22% engage in 'fisting', inserting one's fist into the rectum of the partner, 23% engage in 'golden showers', urinating on each other..." 10.
The responses to the survey were startling and the book became a popular resource for those concerned about the movement in society to normalize homosexual behaviors.
RISKY BEHAVIORS CAUSE CONCERN. 11.
Studies describing health risks associated with homosexual practices were highlighted in the June 2003 edition of the Journal of the American Public Health. Bad news was reported in one article after another.
Beryl A. Koblan and associates reported on alarming data from Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, San Francisco and Seattle involving HIV-negative homosexual men who reported engaging in anal sex with one or more partners in the previous year. Among 4,295 men, 48% reported unprotected receptive anal sex and 54.9% reported unprotected insertive anal sex. Drug and alcohol use were significantly associated with unprotected anal sex.
A study by Daniel H. Ciccarone and associates indicated that sex without disclosure of HIV status is common among persons living with HIV. Their study reported that 45,300 gay or bisexual men, 8,000 heterosexual men and 7,500 women who were HIV infected, were also engaging in sex without disclosure of their HIV status.
A U.S. metropolitan study of six sites reported that 93% of African American men who were HIV infected did not know they had the virus. This study by David J. Malebranche contradicted the view that 'coming out' is associated with better mental health, responsible behavior and lower rates of HIV infection. African-American men who disclosed their homosexuality had a higher HIV prevalence (24%) and engaged in more unprotected anal sex (41%) than those who did not disclose (14% and 32% respectively).
J. Michael Bailey discussed the research on homosexuality and mental illness in the Archives of General Psychiatry. He concluded that "Homosexual people are at substantially higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including suicidality, major depression and anxiety disorder".
This conclusion was corroborated by a large, well-conducted study from the Netherlands that was published in Archives of Psychiatry, 2001. The Dutch society is recognized as one of the most gay tolerant in the world. Yet the risk for mental illness by those engaging in homosexuality is significantly higher than among heterosexuals in that country.
LIFE EXPECTANCY REDUCED 12.
A study published in 1997 examined vital statistics data for a large Canadian urban center from 1987 to 1992. "The main outcome measures of interest were age-specific patterns of death, life expectancy, and life expectancy lost due to HIV/AIDS at exact age 20 years, and the probability of living from age 20 to 65 years." Three groups were studied with proportions of gay and bisexual men of 3%, 6% and 9%.
Results confirmed that "age-specific mortality was significantly higher for gay and bisexual men than all men aged 30-44. Life expectancy at age 20 for gay and bisexual men ranged from 34.0 years to 46.3 years for the 3% and 9% scenarios respectively. These were lower than the 54.3 year life expectancy at 20 for all men." It was concluded that "life expectancy at age 20 is 8 to 20 years less than for all men" and that nearly half of gay and bisexual men aged 20 would not reach their 65th birthday.
This study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, concluded that "under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871."
FACING THE FACTS
The facts related to health concerns of homosexual behaviors demonstrate dangers as significant as smoking and drinking.
We are being asked, even required, to accept the normalization of homosexual behaviors in our society. Schools are teaching the acceptance of these behaviors to our children in the name of tolerance. However the dangerous facts related to consequences are swept under the rug.
Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. Dangerous facts ignored return to destroy.
If we cannot face the facts and protect our children from dangerous behaviors, our future and our children's futures will be stabbed in the back by our carelessness.
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL ABUSE
"...we now live in a sexually tolerant society whose members are willing to live and let live. But one idea remains sacrosanct. In all public discourse, agreement exists that children are to be kept innocent of the sexual interests of adults, because they will be inevitably and irreparably damaged if exposed to them." 13.
"Passing out condoms to teenagers is like issuing squirt guns for a four-alarm blaze. Condoms just don't hack it. We should stop kidding ourselves." 14.
A responsible society must protect the children from behaviors that will endanger them. Childhood is a time to learn directions for living and growing into mature citizens and healthy and responsible adults.
To teach children that homosexual behaviors are equivalent to heterosexual behaviors jeopardizes their ability to move into responsible heterosexual and family relationships.
Children have neither the maturity nor background to understand and evaluate this information.
To teach children that dangerous sexual behaviors are normative and acceptable behaviors is equivalent to sexual child abuse.
REFERENCES:
1. GLSEN. "Our Mission, Our History". http://www.glsen/org/chi-bin/iowa/all/about/history/index.html.
1/21/2012.
2. Lucas, Fred. "Obama's Safe Schools Czar Advocated 'Queering Elementary Education'"
www.cnsnews.com/node/56196. October 27, 2009.
3. Workshop Summary: Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
June 12-13, 2000. http://www.3.nlaid.nih.gov/about/organization/dmid/PDF/condomreport.
4. "Sexually Transmitted Diseases." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdcgov/msmhealth/STD.htm. August 7, 2012.
5. "Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States". JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical
Association. http://jama.ama-asso.org/cgi/content/short/300/5/520.
6. "HIV/AIDS in the United States" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. October 17, 2009.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm.
7. "HIV/AIDS" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/HIV.htm.
August 7, 2012.
8. Burroway, Jim. "The Gay Report". Box Turtle Bulletin. October 15, 2006.
www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,005.htm.
Fox, F. Earle. "The Homosexual Debate - in the Public Arena."
http://www.earstohear.net/Separation/facts.html. Page 11. 10/18/2009.
9. Ibid, Burroway, Jim
10.Ibid. Fox, F. Earle
11. Byrd, A. Dean. "The American Journal of Public Health Highlights Risks of Homosexual
Practices." NARTH. http://www.narth.com/docs/risks.html. 1/10/2010.
12. Hogg,R.S., S.A.Strathdee, K.J. Craib, M.V.O'Shaughnessy, J.S. Montaner and M.T.Schecter.
"Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men." International
Journal of Epidemiology (1997) 26 (3): 657-661. www.ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/657.
abstract.
13. Ericksen, Julia. "Sexual liberation's last frontier." Society. Vol. 37, No. 4 (May/June) 2000:22.
14. Quotation by Dr. Robert C. Noble of the University of Kentucky. Quoted in: "Pastoral letter
chides safe sex stance." by Bishop Rene H. Gracida. Laredo Morning Times. Nov. 23, 1991.
Editorial page.
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