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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siwash, post: 842567, member: 18091&quot;]I&#039;m not sold by this one thin study. (I&#039;m all in favor of religious tolerance, though.) I&#039;m sure there has to be more serious work out there: this is a pretty superficial look.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s something from the federal Center for Disease Control: </p><p><b><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/gay-mens-hiv-rate-44-times-that-of-other-men-syphilis-rate-46-times-higher.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/gay-mens-hiv-rate-44-times-that-of-other-men-syphilis-rate-46-times-higher.html" rel="nofollow">CDC: Gay Men’s&nbsp; HIV Rate 44 Times that of Other Men; Syphilis Rate 46 Times Higher</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what to make of these issues: clearly we haven&#039;t yet found a rational and reasonable basis for claiming homosexual and heterosexual activities are equivalents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I DO think homosexuality is a complex psychological matter, not a genetic one. The genetic thing seems disproven. So I&#039;m apprehensive of blandly saying everything&#039;s okay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know there&#039;s a fun bandwagon to jump on, and it&#039;s fun to say &quot;okay&quot; to stuff. But here I haven&#039;t yet seen substantial scientific results. So the scout policy seems prudent, to say the least, especially in a litigious era (it&#039;s grim humor to see the scouts now being taken to court for their early efforts to protect kids via a predator list).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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