Travelers carried so many tropical diseases to New York City that it had to institute a tropical disease center, and gays carried HIV from New York City to the rest of the world. 27 Most of the 6,349 Americans who got AIDS from contaminated blood as of 1992, received it from homosexuals and most of the women in California who got AIDS through heterosexual activity got it from men who engaged in homosexual behavior. The rare form of airborne scarlet fever that stalked San Francisco in 1976 also started among homosexuals. Because we care about them, smokers are discouraged from smoking by higher insurance premiums, taxes on cigarettes and bans against smoking in public. These social pressures cause many to quit.
Homosexuals are sexually troubled people engaging in dangerous activities.
Because we care about them and those tempted to join them, it is important that we neither encourage nor legitimize such a destructive lifestyle. NY Norton, 1971. Amici curiae brief, in Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986. 5. Cameron P et al Sexual orientation and sexually transmitted disease. Manligit, G.W. et al Chronic immune stimulation by sperm alloan- tigens.