Biblical Long Term Solution To The Following Diseases

Another thought. If monogamy is beneficial should we support monogamy amongst the homosexual population by endorsing gay marriage ? WOuld that be a "Biblical" thing to do ?

I have purposely cited Hep B for this topic as it is the relevant version to the topic at hand. It is transmitted via mucous membrane or blood, the majority of incidences being sexual related.

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The topic question pertains to the three practices, one of which is sodomy. This catagory includes the practice of monogamous homosexuality. Would abstinence from this practice reduce the incidence of one or more of the sexual diseases in the list significantly, say in the US?Note the following question I posed to Jar in message 19 where I specified monogamous heterosexual practice.Buz: Message 19: "Would you agree that monogamous heterosexual practice reduces the incidence of these diseases?"

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Gravity is God's glue that holds his universe together.

Monogamy works to prevent the transmission of STDs regardless of the sex acts performed within the relationship. Thus I repeat the question of whether it would be in line with your Biblical teaching to promote monogamy through homosexuals through the institution of "gay marriages".u

Strawman: Pregnancy is not a disease.Buz: "Would you agree that monogamous heterosexual practice reduces the incidence of these diseases?" Scientific fact: The more partners you engage in sex with, the greater your chance of STD. Simple math. The more of a rabbitry society becomes, the faster STD moves.Buz: Given that the vast majority of aids infections are MSM, would you agree that MSM sexual abstinence would greatly reduce incidence of aids on the long haul? How about MMS?

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Gravity is God's glue that holds his universe together.

Guessing that you mean Male to Male Sex (but wondering why you'd waste time not making that clear) I'd remind you that you have been told that this is wrong. (or at least it's been posted here often enough that you should know it.).

The question as per the topic OP is whether abstinence of adultry, fornication and sodomy diminishes STDs. I prefer not to have the thread stray into subtopics pertaining to the three practices.To answer your question briefly, the less partners involved in any of these three practices would, of course, diminish the risk. To argue the pros and cons of gay marriage should be a separate topic which I don't want to get into in this thread.

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Gravity is God's glue that holds his universe together.

by less risk i mean that if it holds any risk then it is risky. if you don't like risky, live in a bubble and cut off your penis. the rest of us will deal with what the cdc suggests.if you wait until you're married to have sex with your ten year old card-carrying, certified viginal wife but lick toilet seats for a living, you're going to get hepatitis and/or something equally nasty. the laws god gave in the old testament were for personal purity, not hygiene or health. suggesting that they were divinely inspired because god knew that the best way to protect yourself from disease is to not bone guys and only bone one chick ever is foolish. because there are far more ways to catch these diseases.

My apologies for wasting your time, Ned. I got the abreviation mixed up and it appears that for some, the context wasn't enough to figure it out.

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Gravity is God's glue that holds his universe together.

try reading what i wrote mr. one track mind.

Crass post not worthy of comment!

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Gravity is God's glue that holds his universe together.

You've hit the nail on the head, Ben. This is why some cultures and families have little or no incidence of STDs and others are plagued with them. The culture in some very promiscuous African nations verify this as well as some conservative cultures.1. Under OT Levitical law, all three of these diseases carried a capital punishment condemnation for those under that authority and in that culture. It can be assumed that STD's for that culture were rare relative to the incidence of STD worldwide today.2. Likely in fundamentalist Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, the incidence of STDs would also be relatively low.

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and yet you do.

If having an unwanted tapeworm or an unwanted bacteria or an unwanted virus is a disease, then an unwanted pregnancy is a disease. What is a disease, if not a lifeform in your body that you don't want there? Simple logic - you can't get a disease from someone who doesn't have one, and you can be infected by your first and only sexual partner.Avoiding fluid exchange with infected persons is the only way to prevent the spread of an STD. How one chooses to do that is entirely up to them. I still don't understand what you mean by MSM. Is that a code for "hetersexual acts between men and women?" Since that's the only thing you could be referring to by saying "the vast majority of AIDS infections." How about you tell me what the hell you're talking about? Juggling the letters around doesn't tell me what you mean.

What has been proven, medically, to reduce the spread of these diseases is access to prophilaxis and knowledge about the medical and sexual history of your potential partners.What has never been proven to work - quite the opposite - is abstinence. Partly because, for one in four women for instance, "choosing abstinence" doesn't translate into not having sex with a "partner" of unknown medical/sexual history. And yet, empirically, it doesn't. Funny old world, isn't it?