This is a curious research article…gluttony is not a problem in the US according to this chart?

I am having trouble accessing the detailed information you cite.

Aren’t STD’s highly correlated with being granted “leave” from bootcamp training? That could explain Biloxi…

So many variables uncontrolled, how can this be used to support anyone’s argument?

The issue is the incidence per sexual orientation controlling for age.

For all I know, they may. But certainly not in rations that anti-gays claim or in any way that justifies calling homosexuality a disorder.

Actually I got distracted with the cities. They were only included to compare between themselves and not as an example of “the worst”.

To get my point you have to look at the nation as a whole. STDs per capita were the worst in the South and not really all that evident in, say, San Francisco or LA or NYC or South Beach – the areas where all those sinful diseased homos live.

If, as Mile McPherson (Carry Prejean’s pastor) says, gays are 23 times more likely to have STDs, then we would expect the areas where they are most congregated to show up as “hot spots” rather than the Missouri or South Carolina.

Interestingly, the Geographers from Kansas State University just released a study which looked at the Seven Deadly Sins from a geographic perspective. This was mostly just a fun detailed analysis of a frivolous concept. But they did provide one graph that is telling.

Lust was calculated by compiling the number of sexually transmitted diseases — HIV, AIDS, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea — reported per capita.

And looking at the Spatial Distribution graph of “lust” (sexually transmitted disease per capita), we see that those areas that have the highest concentration of gay population are not where STDs are the worst. In fact, none of the top ten cities are known to have much of a gay population at all.

The inaccuracies you point out are fertile grounds for future research. Is there a higher death/morbidity/substance abuse/physical abuse rate among homosexuals than heterosexuals? I think such research could be very beneficial and should be encouraged- regardless of ideology.

December 26, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

Not only is the homosexual lifestyle risky to one’s physical health in terms of STDs, it is also risky in other ways. Physical abuse between partners is much more prevalent in the gay community; alcoholism and drug abuse rates also is common. Psychiatric disorders, including severe depression and suicidal ideation and attempts are also more commonly found in gays than in the heterosexual community, even in countries that accept the gay lifestyle.”

Not only is the heteroexual lifestyle risky to one’s physical health in terms of STDs (new HIV infections are highest in the world in Africa among heterosexuals), it is also risky in other ways. Physical (and mental) abuse between partners is much more prevalent in the straight community resulting in massive divorce rates; alcoholism and drug abuse rates also is common (They don’t call it the Betty Ford [a straight woman] Clinic for nothing.). Psychiatric disorders, including severe depression and suicidal ideation and attempts are also more commonly found in gays than in the heterosexual community, even in countries that accept the gay lifestyle, but is that a result of a sick ‘lifestyle’ or the symptom of growing-up in a sick society that constantly rejects you and debates your self-worth as a person?