Document: pub/resources/text/breakpoint: BPT.94.03.30 --------------------------------------------------- Note: Prison Fellowship has recently asked that email transmission of the BreakPoint commentaries be suspended until they decide how they wish to proceed with that matter. However, I have been given permission to email special noncommentary items like fact sheets and urgent announcements. Write me for the recent posts about transmitting BreakPoint over email. You have my permission to forward these posts ONLY if you are being sensitive to and respectful of the recipients' views and you KNOW that these posts will not be a threat to or abuse of their ideals, only if the copyright notice (if present) is retained, and only if there is no profit involved. If you've missed a post, you may get it from the USENET newsgroup bit.listserv.christia. This is an UNOFFICIAL transcript made from the radio broadcast. Mistakes in it are mine, not Mr Colson's nor Prison Fellowship's. Comments, corrections, questions are welcome; send to . * <> Wednesday, March 30, 1994 BREAKPOINT with Chuck Colson There was a time when you could count on the nation's Surgeon General to warn us against anything posing a threat to the public welfare. But these days taking the Surgeon General's advice could be hazardous to your health. In an interview with The Advocate, a gay magazine, Dr Jocelyn Elders announced that homosexuality is normal and healthy. She even urged legal changes to allow same sex couples to adopt children. As she put it, "good parents are good parents regardless of their sexual orientation." Coming from the nation's chief health officer, this is an incredible statement. The facts show that the practice of sodomy is about as healthy as playing with live grenades. Despite being only a tiny percentage of the population, homosexuals account for 86 percent of the known HIV cases, for half the cases of syphilis and intestinal infections. Compared to heterosexuals, they suffer higher rates of hepatitis B, heart attacks, and liver failure. Even discounting the affects of AIDS, the median age of death is 42 for gay men, 45 for lesbians, compared to 72 for heterosexuals. The Surgeon General may not have moral objections to homosexuality, but she still ought to discourage it on purely public health grounds. Allowing gays to adopt children would be to condemn them to a childhood surrounded by death and disease. Surprisingly, monogamous gay couples, the very ones who would want to adopt children, are afflicted with even more health problems than promiscuous singles. A medical journal called Aid sites a study showing that monogamous gay men suffer higher rates of HIV transmission - apparently because they engage in riskier sex. Gay parents are also more likely to pass on their unhealthly way of life to their children. The Family Research Institute of Virginia analyzed 8 studies of families with homosexual parents. The data showed that gay parents may be 4 times more likely to produce homosexual children than heterosexual parents. After all, children do learn from their parents. One teenager interviewed for the study said that when she had conflicts with her boyfriend, her lesbian mother would "tell me to try girls." The more we study the topic, the more the empirical research supports the biblical teaching against homosexuality. On the other side of the coin, studies also confirm that heterosexual married couples are best qualified to raise children. The National Center for Health Statistics found that children growing up in traditional, two parent families have fewer emotional, behavioral, and academic problems than children who live in any other type of household. Jocelyn Elders is ignoring the empirical evidence and is acting as a lightening rod for the Clinton administration. She's making outrageous statements that foment debate while drawing controversy away from the President himself. It's an old political game; it's one I used to play myself. But it's high time for you and me to call Clinton's hand. We should demand that he should either fire Jocelyn Elders, or else accept full responsibility for the poison she is spreading. The evidence is finally coming out of the closet, and it's nothing less than scandalous when the nation's chief health officer ignores the medical facts to promote her social agenda. BreakPoint is copyright (c) 1994 by Prison Fellowship. To talk with Prison Fellowship about emailing BreakPoint write or call: Prison Fellowship (800) 497-0122 PO Box 17500 (703) 478-0100 Washington, DC 20041 (703) 834-3658 fax BreakPoint (800) 995-8777 ----------- David S McMeans amUous Mind Puzzles Dayton, OH BreakPoint with Chuck Colson