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According to the estimates, published in the journal PLoS ONE, there were 48,600 new HIV infections in the United States in 2006, 56,000 in 2007, 47,800 in 2008 and 48,100 in 2009. Over the four-year period, that amounts to an average of 50,000 cases per year.
[…]Men who have sex with men – which includes openly gay and bisexual men and those who do not identify themselves as gay or bisexual – remain most heavily affected.While this group represents 2 percent of the overall U.S. population, they accounted for 61 percent of all new HIV infections in 2009.
And young men who have sex with men – those aged 13 to 29 – are the hardest hit, accounting for more than one quarter of all new HIV infections nationally.
New HIV infections affected young men who have sex with men of all races, but the CDC saw very sharp increases among young black men who have sex with men.
“We saw increases of up to 48 percent – nearly a 50 percent increase between 2006 and 2009,” Fenton said.
Is it a good idea to celebrate behaviors that are likely to cause harm? Is it a good idea to conceal the risks of certain behaviors from the general public? Aren’t people who set boundaries between harmless and harmful behavior more loving than people who deny that any behaviors are more or less harmful?
Comments to this post will be filtered because of the Obama administration law restricting speech on these topics.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
“Is it a good idea to celebrate behaviors that are likely to cause harm?”
Of course, because we’d rather risk death than risk hurting feelings. This behavior might hurt you? No matter! As long as you like it.
It’s sad.
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Hey WK – what laws restrict speech on these topics ? I was not aware of this.
If so, what happened to “freedom of speech”?
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http://www.cnsnews.com/node/56300
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WK,
People have been trying to silence Christians from the beginning. This is even recorded in the book of Acts. And they will continue to try to silence Christians until the 2nd coming.
Let them try. It is an honor to be persecuted for speaking the truth.
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My understanding of the law was that he included crimes based on homophobia under the already existing “hate crime” criteria. I believe we already had a special category for crimes based on religious anti-bias, racial, and other categories, and now sexual orientation is included in that classification. So you may be punished more severely if you commit a violent act that is deemed to be based off of anti-bias in one of the covered categories.
Hate crime laws are different from hate speech laws though. The only way you should be able to get in trouble for “hate speech” made online would be if you then committed a crime against someone who fell under the category of the hate speech that you had publicly posted (thus providing evidence that the crime was rooted in the anti-bias) so they could prosecute you under that more strict hate crime law.
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Being British, I was not sure if you were being serious about ‘comments being filtered’ due to Obama law.. oh my, this looks like a sad police state situation when we cannot make open and honest appraisal of issues that affect the future of our nations and our children. Eastern block communism may have been defeated.. but do we now have something worse?
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