What Heterosexuals Need To Teach Homosexuals
America has been deluged with so-called "reality" television series, but one premiered on the Bravo cable channel last week that shows just how far off-track our culture has gotten.
Given the title "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," this new television series maintains that heterosexuals have much to learn from homosexuals in matters of fashion and how to live their lives.
Bravo is airing what amounts to be a weekly advertisement for the homosexual movement and its agenda. It should come as no surprise that I do not feel compelled to take any fashion or lifestyle tips from the homosexual movement, and I say that as someone who was wearing pink shirts back in the 1960s before the color was seized by homosexual activists and politicized.
Nowadays, I still wear a pink shirt every now and then as a sign of rebellion against a movement that expects wearers of that color to be sympathetic to their agenda, which I most certainly am not.
The TV show has it absolutely backwards, unsurprising given that Hollywood producers these days are more interested in hewing to the homosexual movement's Politically Correct agenda rather than defending traditional values.
We all know about AIDS and how that has ravaged many practitioners of the homosexual lifestyle. But did you know that the lifestyle associated with homosexuals with its emphasis on drinking, promiscuous sex, and violence leads to many early deaths from causes other than AIDS as well as serious physical illnesses?
Perhaps Bravo's producers would be better off doing a documentary on the dead-end road that the radical homosexual movement wants to lead this country down. One document that they should include in their research is a study written a few years ago by the Family Research Council's Tim Dailey on "The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality."
The Bravo producers could show how fashionable excessive drinking is in homosexual circles. According to an article cited by Dailey's study that appeared in the December 1994 issue of Family Planning Perspectives: "Among men, by far the most important risk group consisted of homosexual and bisexual men, who were more than nine times as likely as heterosexual men to have a history of problem drinking." Furthermore, the study discovered that problem drinking was a likely culprit in "significantly higher STD (i.e., sexually transmitted disease) rates among gay and bisexual men."
That, of course, is the least of it. The lifestyle is one that encourages promiscuity, leaving homosexuals open to all kinds of STDs and possibly even cancers.
"Don't ask, don't tell" about risky sex is obviously a fashionable concept within a significant portion of the homosexual community. A 1997 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 45% of homosexuals who reported having engaged in unprotected anal intercourse during the prior six months did not know the HIV status of all their sex partners. And of those who had unprotected anal intercourse and multiple partners, over two-thirds did not know the HIV status of their partners.
Plain common sense is not in fashion either because those homosexuals who may not be personally engaged in such repeated sinful activities essentially sanction it by calling on more promiscuous homosexuals to use condoms -- not to completely renounce their unsafe lifestyles.
Furthermore, relationships between homosexuals are often violent. Dailey cites the book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence which stated that "the incidence of domestic violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heterosexual population."
Even homosexual marriage is not going to change things much because studies have shown that many, many homosexuals, even those in "committed" relationships, do not have any deep sense of fidelity to their partners. Furthermore, even those relationships that could perhaps be termed monogamous" cannot be considered healthy because they usually involve anal intercourse, a practice that is simply unhealthy given that it frequently leads to bacterial and parasitical STDs.
That's the plain, unvarnished truth that Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and many other television shows will not discuss. Because they want to gloss over what the homosexual lifestyle is really about is absolutely no reason why conservatives of conscience and compassion should not continue to demand the truth be told, particularly now that homosexual groups are engaged in campaigns to tell schoolchildren that "being gay is okay."
Silence on our part would mean being complicit in the promotion of flat-out lies and distortions that have deadly consequences. The fact is that the homosexual lifestyle is one that is dysfunctional, unhealthy and can even be deadly, not to mention that it is immoral.
It's not the fashionable thing to say, but it is the truth.
(Paul M. Weyrich is chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.)
