AIM's Kincaid called for "Quit Gay Sex" campaign

[kweerwolf]

Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid argued in a December 14 commentary posted to the right-wing media watchdog website that news organizations should engage in a "Quit Gay Sex" campaign against "the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle," using as justification for his argument the November "Quit to Live" anti-smoking campaign launched by ABC News after veteran journalist Peter Jennings died of lung cancer. Kincaid argued that news organizations should take up similar campaigns against homosexuality, given that "ife-threatening sexually transmitted diseases among homosexuals are on the increase."

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From Kincaid's December 14 "Media Monitor" column at Accuracy in Media:

We would suggest that ABC News take on another dangerous practice--homosexuality. The latest reports indicate a rising pattern of sexually transmitted diseases nationwide. The 2005 estimate for syphilis cases is the highest in a decade, and the number of gonorrhea cases will exceed any other year's count since 1993. Federal officials attribute the increases mostly to HIV-positive homosexual men having sex with one another. The practice is called "serosorting."

The practice shows the dangerous and addictive nature of the homosexual lifestyle. As if it wasn't bad enough that the homosexual men are HIV-positive, they simply cannot stop having sex with other men. So they are still having sex, this time with other HIV-positive men. They think this is "responsible" sex. But they are increasing their risk of acquiring other sexually transmitted infections, including new resistant strains of HIV.

It appears that the homosexual lifestyle is as addictive as smoking.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512150002

I might take Kincaid just a smidge more seriously is he was speaking out against the religious addicts mainlining Jeebus, a "disease" that poses much more danger to America.

[noamnety]

1. Thank god heterosexuality isn't addictive

I could quit anytime. ;)

[mitchtv]

2. I have a terminal case

of addictive Homosexuality

[Deja Q]

3. In utter seriousness, there IS a health problem here.

In utter seriousness, there IS a health problem here.

However, people are using labels and nonsense to shrug it off - "the homosexual lifestyle" and all that.

I don't know many homosexuals who choose to be that way; we merely act out what is normal and natural.

Given the perception we are summarily given, depression is to be expected. When depressed, one is likely to do things to feel better. Last time I checked, sex feels pretty good.

Gay men, once they get HIV, certainly don't care anymore - they know they have a death sentence.

If these narrow minded fools like Kincaid would look beyond their dogma, we could be on our way to eliminate a lot of problems. Not just self-esteem and confidence problems bestowed upon them by a society they feel is out to harass them at every turn.

On the plus side, I can't seem to get any from anyone, so I needn't worry about getting anything. :7

[Brian_Expat]

9. What gay men survived the HIV epidemic of the 1980s?

The ones who were in long-term monogamous relationships. Which, of course, Kincaid and his ilk are unlikely to support.

One could therefore argue they want gay men to die.

[Kali]

4. I read that AIM as American Indian Movement....

:crazy:

please excuse me

[MadisonProgressive]

5. He should quit having sex - we need less people like him

[donheld]

6. "The dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle"

Makes me wonder if he's tried it and got addicted?

[shenmue]

7. Insanity can be fun!

Do people like that ever smile?

:crazy:

What planet are they from?

[closeupready]

8. Stop stigmatizing gays, and you'll get less STD's.

There was a study done recently about STD transmission rates in Jamaica (did I read about it on DU, i think?), and the conclusion reached was that there was a correlation between the degree of homophobia in a society and higher rates of STD transmission. For a lot of intuitive reasons.

If you live in a small town with one doctor who knows everybody and who - like most people there - is homophobic, you are less likely to tell that doctor that you are gay and thus, get education in sex ed about condoms and precisely how HIV and other STD's are transmitted.

Honestly, these Christian fundies are taking society down the highway to hell, and it has got to stop.

[Dark]

10. Driving kills even more people than AIDS. Let's ban that! n/t