Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A courageous representative from the state of South Dakota, Rep. Steve Hickey, has touched off a firestorm by publishing a column in which he criticizes doctors for not speaking out about the devastating physical and emotional ramifications of same-sex relations.
The letter, which appears on his Facebook page, was written as an open letter to the medical and psychological communities in South Dakota, calling these professionals to task for not speaking out about the health risks of gay sex.
“Certainly there are board-certified doctors in our state who will attest to what seems self-evident to so many: gay sex is not good for the body or mind,” Hickey writes. “Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down. Frankly, I’d question the judgment of any doctor who says it’s all fine.
“South Dakota docs, it’s time for you to come out of the closet and give your professional opinion on this matter like you capably and responsibly do on all the others. Somehow the message we are presently getting from the medical community is that eating at McDonalds will kill us but the gay lifestyle has no side effects. Truth be told it seems self-evident the list of side effects would read far longer than anything we hear on a Cialis commercial.”
He went on to challenge their silence: “I’m asking the doctors who practice in our state, is the science really settled on this issue or is it more the case that you feel silenced and intimidated?
Hickey is trying to draw attention to the extreme health risks associated with homosexual relations. According to the CDC, the majority of new cases of HIV/AIDS diagnosed in the U.S. are among men who have sex with men. In addition to this risk, other diseases found with “extraordinary frequency” among this population include: anal cancer, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, gonorrhea, syphilis, and viral hepatitis types B&C.
These health issues are so serious that they have resulted in decreasing the lifespan of a sexually active homosexual by anywhere from eight to 21 years.
Instead of applauding this politician for having the courage to speak up about these appalling and life-threatening facts, the local Democratic party sought to score political points by calling the column “hateful” and “reprehensible”.
“We all have friends, family, and neighbors who are in healthy, loving same-sex relationships,” said Zach Crago, executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party. “They are not asking for any special rights, but to be treated with equal dignity and respect.”
Maybe Mr. Crago doesn’t know too many homosexual men who have lost their partners, or parents whose children have succumbed to these diseases. If he did, and experienced their grief, he might feel much differently about this issue.
That’s what happened to me. Ten years ago, I was approached by a homosexual man who asked me to write a column about the health risks of his lifestyle. Why? Because so many of his friends had died that the block he lived on in New Jersey, which used to be home to many gay couples, was now almost completely gone. He was heartbroken to have lost so many friends and even though many people also accused me of “hate speech” after the columns were published, he and I knew the truth – nothing but love and genuine concern for others motivated those columns.
Homosexual men are an endangered species who will one day become extinct if doctors and other health professionals don’t start speaking up.
Many people are applauding Hickey for his courage, but he has discovered what many journalists have who dare to speak out on this issue – there’s a dark and murderous underbelly to the same-sex movement in the U.S. They’ll threaten anyone, even children.
Hickey was certainly no exception.
“The reactions that I’ve received are an indication of why people are afraid to speak out,” Hickey said about the troubling, personal backlash he’s received. “I’m having people describe how they want to rape me and hurt me. It’s a really dark underculture.”
People need to see what’s been going on for the last decade, the truth that is being hidden behind the cries for “tolerance” and “equality” that so effectively drown out anything that could reflect negatively on relationships that this “dark underculture” is so desperate to see normalized.
As Hickey states: “It’s not hate for a physician to speak up about something that is harmful to human health.”
It might hurt to do so, but suffering is exactly what separates real love from the cheap imitations so prevalent in our society today.
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