Obama Wasting Money on Gays "Who Won't Live Long Enough"
Before we entrust Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with health care reform, maybe Americans should take a closer look at how her Department spends other taxpayer dollars. Even The Washington Post called Friday's announcement from Health and Human Services (HHS) an "eye opener," writing that the President's "gay outreach continues." A $1.4 trillion deficit aside, HHS has set aside a quarter million dollars to launch the first-ever National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders.
Apparently, our nation is never too broke to advance a radical social agenda. The agency released a statement on the Center last week, saying its purpose would be to "help community-based organizations understand the unique needs... of older LGBT individuals and assist them in implementing programs for local service providers..."
In the release, HHS regurgitates the Left's propaganda to justify the waste, claiming that "1.5 to 4 million" LGBTs are age 60 and older. In reality, HHS has no idea how many LGBT seniors exist. No one does! The movement is only a few decades old, and people who are 80- or 90-years-old didn't grow up in a culture where it was acceptable to identify with this lifestyle.
Of course, the real tragedy here--apart from the unnecessary spending--is that, given the risks of homosexual conduct, few of these people are likely to live long enough to become senior citizens!
Yet once again, the Obama administration is rushing to reward a lifestyle that poses one of the greatest public health risks in America. If this is how HHS prioritizes, imagine what it could do with a trillion dollar health care overhaul!
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The greatest health risk in America is the food the majority of us stuff ourselves with, not homosexual "conduct".
The next greatest threat to America's overall health is, in my view, radical groups giving themselves lofty names who seek to deny any who disagree with them any rights whatsoever.
Actually, this piece is the right wing's answer to all the uninsured -- die soon. It's just that with homosexuals , they're willing to admit it. This is hardly the first time they've tried to use the government as a passive killing tool, by denying funds. The Reagan administration did it at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. Now, with all the focus on health care , we're simply seeing how much more broadly they are willing to watch Americans die: the elderly poor, minorities, those unlucky enough to contract very unusual ailments, and basically anybody who isn't affluent enough to afford rising insurance premiums. They even pretend that nobody's health is impacted by the lack of insurance. This article -- with it's Just Say Drop Dead -- message is actually one of the less dishonest things they have publicly said.
and I feel like I have been in the middle of a saloon fight in the old west. Tables and chairs flying everywhere and the only safe place is behind the bar.FRC is sewing seeds of disruption again. I think its time for a posse and some rope.
I hadn't realized that Opposing Views broadcasts the unsubstantiated radical viewpoints of Fox News-like propaganda machines.
Honestly, the government blows through hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars on an unnecessary war and this organization is fine with it, even with their own children dying, but they will absolutely not allow a few hundred THOUSAND dollars to be spent on people that organizations like these have been responsible for harassing for decades now.
This organization is clearly composed of the same caucasian people that shouted with ugly disdain when African Americans first began to be desegregated into public schools . It's petty and it's despicable.
The fundamentalist Christian bigotry rears its ugly head again:
"Apparently, our nation is never too broke to advance a radical social agenda."
Yes, damn the Civil Rights movement. Why can't the blacks just stay where they belong, as slaves to the superior whites? Abolishing slavery is a radical social agenda, and radical social agendas are pure evil!
"given the risks of homosexual conduct, few of these people are likely to live long enough to become senior citizens"
The risks of homosexual conduct? What on earth is that supposed to mean? "Homosexual conduct" is no riskier than "heterosexual conduct".
You are nothing but bigots. If it isn't the color of their skin, it's their sexual orientation.
I'm not sure why we're singling out gay elderly people when all elderly people need help and support . Does being gay make you more worthy than just being elderly? Why can't gay elderly people apply for help through elder care programs we already have?
Yes, Jerica, all elderly people need help and support . However, society has placed gay and lesbian elders at a severe disadvantage in taking care of themselves. Because we are unable to get married, we are unable to receive health benefits on our spouse's plans, become recipients of their pension plan benefits and take advantage of the social security benefits that heterosexual spouses are able to claim. So all of that impacts negatively our ability to care for ourselves as we age.
For the same reason we single out Black elderly, Hispanic elderly, Asian elderly...each minority has special needs not necessarily needed by the others. This so called Christian bigoted group makes me just want to run out and become a Christian...NOT!!!!
At least My religion does not discriminate against any one, including them. But if they keep this type of hate speech up...that may change .
Why do we single out anybody? Isn't singling out unfair? I want special treatment too!!!
This country has practically eliminated racism and bigotry. We ought to start eliminating special treatment. Raze the playing field.
Can't you just feel the love of Jesus emanating from the Family Research Council? Such fine representatives of the Christian faith.
If society condemns gay relationships and creates a hostile environment that forces gays to live in the closet and be promiscuous, then of course, there is going to be a higher mortality rate, stemming from substance abuse and other self destructive behaviors caused by low self esteem, to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.
If society allows gay people to settle down with the one they love, then more gay people choose monogamy and as someone who is involved in the gay community (and partnered for 24 years - now married), I can say that those who choose monogamy grow to be very old indeed.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.