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Society - Defective Counterfeit
its participants, it has the lowest rate of domestic
violence, it prolongs life and is the best context in which
to raise children- a law and tradition the Zambian
Government has sustained jealously.
Homosexual behavior is linked with higher rates of
promiscuity, physical disease, mental illness, substance
abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence and all
things that impact society negatively. It is a lethal force
that tears down and harms society.
In areas where homosexuality has become acceptable
(The Netherlands and areas of Scandinavia, for
example), the fundamental building block of society,
which is the family has fallen apart in some of these
areas.
How would the legalisation of homosexual harm current
and future generations The answer at first glance is that
it wouldn't, at least not in individual cases in the short
run. But what about the longer run for everyone
It is a superficial kind of individualism that does not
recognise the power of emerging social trends that often
start with only a few individuals bucking conventional
patterns of behaviour.
Negative social trends start with only a few aberrations.
Gradually, however, social sanctions weaken and
individual aberrations became a torrent.
But even so, why would a new social trend of gays
marrying have negative effects I believe that, there are
compelling reasons why the institutionalisation of
homosexuality should not be espoused or condoned; it
would be bad for marriage, children, and would erode
society natural values instituted by God.
The first casualty of the acceptance of homosexuality
would be the very definition of marriage itself.
For thousands of years in every society, marriage has
meant the life-long union of a man and a woman. Such a
statement about marriage is what philosophers call an
analytic proposition.
The concept of marriage necessarily includes the idea of
a man and woman committing themselves to each other.
Any other arrangement contradicts the basic definition
of "natural law".
Andrew Sullivan, the most eloquent proponent of gay
marriage, wrote in his 1996 book, Virtually Normal.
"There is more likely to be a greater understanding of
the need for extramarital outlets between two men than
between a man and a woman. Something of the gay
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relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its
equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform
many heterosexual bonds."
By implication the homosexuals desire variety in their
sex partners.
According to Oxford University's International Journal
of Epidemiology report: "Life expectancy at age 20 for
gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 year less than for all
men. If the same pattern of mortality continues, we
estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men
currently aged 20 will not reach their 65th birthday".
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
report that men who engage in homosexual behavior
are 86% more likely to contract a sexually transmitted
diseases (STD) increasing up to 50% their risk of
contracting HIV/AIDS.
Men who have intercourse with men have large
numbers of anonymous partners which result in rapid,
extensive transmission of STDs, the CDC warns.
Another CDC study confirms that young bisexual men
are a bridge for HIV transmission to women. "If we
might look back to the 1980s, and wonder how AIDS,
which had first been known predominantly as a gay
cancer," was spread to general population, we will find
the culprit: the misguided behaviors exhibited by
bisexuals.
A modicum of self-restraint and repression of such
attitudes would certainly have mitigated the
proliferation of this disease.
Homosexual marriage is nowhere close to any good,
while traditional marriage delivers benefits to its
participants as well as to society. To be clear-cut,
homosexuality badly harms everyone it touches,
especially the gay themselves.
Not only does it place homosexuals at increased risk for
HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, but it also
subjects them to an increased threat of domestic
violence and early death - vices the Government is
trying hard to fight.
Unlike traditional marriages, homosexual unions are
not built around lifetime commitments, nor are they
good environments to raise children. The physical
harms of homosexuality however are not the extent of
its damage. Even more fundamentally, homosexuality
causes devastation in an individual's moral life.
Homosexuality is not an orientation that is somehow
inherently pre-determined, but a practice just like
drunkenness that those engaging in it undertake of their
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