Oh, yeah, and as for AIDS: human beings have practiced homosexuality (openly or not) for thousands of years, but the HIV virus only entered the human population fairly recently due to our encroachment on the habitat of its natural carriers, non-human primates (and that initial jump was probably related to people hunting monkeys for food and had nothing to do with sex). It was first introduced into the San Francisco gay community and spread like wildfire due in part to their sexual practices (the virus is more easily transmitted by anal sex than vaginal sex), but the major factor was the casual promiscuity of that particular sub-culture. If the first American to contract AIDS had been, say, a prostitute in some particularly promiscious heterosexual community, then Jerry Falwell would doubtless be attributing AIDS to God's judgement on extramarital sex rather than homosexuality. Homosexuals in general are no more likely to have multiple partners than heterosexuals: in fact, the greatest risk factor for AIDS now is poverty, and in poor nations such as most of Africa AIDS is prevelent among the heterosexual community, whether promiscuous or not.
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