The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147102   Message #3456464
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Dec-12 - 07:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Gay marriage' question
Subject: RE: BS: 'Gay marriage' question
Keith, you are a homophobe because you are deliberately highly selective and tendentious in the information you employ to make your case. You focus exclusively and obsessively on HIV/Aids as though it was the one infection that can be passed on by sexual contact, yet the truth is that it is in a tiny minority of overall STIs. You neither acknowledge that nor offer any solutions and you ignore my calls for better education. I can only conclude that you think education would have an such inconvenient effect on infection rates that it would weaken your case, so you'd rather not think about it. You are similarly highly selective about what you put forward about Israel/Palestine, completely blind to the plight of one side, so that makes you an Islamophobe too. You are what you are, by your fruits we know you, and bleating about it when you get called out is, frankly, pathetic.

Ake, I've given you my suggested solution ad nauseam. A good, moralising-free, religion-free programme of education for safe sex and personal relationships would reduce STIs, unwanted pregnancies and abortions dramatically. We do not have that in this country. What we have is piecemeal, arbitrary, non-compulsory and shambolic. Resources ploughed into that would reap dividends far beyond their money cost. I asked for your solution, but all I get from you is veiled moralising and, well, homophobia. Certainly nothing like a balanced view. Shed your fear of gay people and start to look at the situation a little more objectively.