The reason that this person is going to be called a "bigot" and a "homophobe" is because he is one.
Let's stop "promoting anal sex"? First of all, why is this idea of "promoting anal sex" limited to gays? Plenty of heterosexuals perform anal sex, too.
Why is all the vitriol and fear mongering limited to a disease that predominately attacks homosexuals? There are far more diseases, deadly diseases, that discriminiate on every level. Should we also discontinue heterosexual sex, eating beef and swimming? If a disease that can be statistically attributed to the activities of a given demographic warrant that group to be attacked, then there is virtually no demographic whose activities should not be condemned. This guy just hates gays.
Does the dispicable bigotry spewed out in this column have the insight or foundation on the part of its author to speak intelligently in terms of choice vs. sexuality? Does he know any gays? Has he burdened himself to a conversation with a gay individual and done any research in terms of how that person feels about his or her sexuality and draw his hateful conclusion based on that? Or does he just assume that men everywhere that actually prefer vaginal sex inexplicably defer to anal sex...just cuz? Maybe it's because Mr. Farah thinks gays hate him, and are out to get him by...having sex. Or...um, well...I can't think of anything.
If I were given a choice between smoking and anal sex, I would choose smoking as well. But not for any other reason than that I prefer anal sex about as much as a gay man prefers vaginal sex. It really is perfectly ok for me to feel that way, and it's perfectly ok for a gay man to feel the way he does. Simple as that. I don't uderstand why all the hate.
Here's another take on Mr. Farah's logic, here...
"I think that heterosexual activity is a choice, just like smoking. And heterosexual behavior as seen on tv and news (news?) and in movies is quite offensive to me. And all those terrible diseases the heterosexuals spread, like herpes and the cold, warrant my opinion that all heterosexual activity should stop being promoted in these outlets because we are just encouraging the common cold to be spread like wild fire throughout the public."
Sounds ridiculous and illogical, doesn't it?
Bar none, guys like the one that wrote this "column" (more like hate, fear mongering, scapegoating propaganda if you ask me, kind of like what the Nazi's like to do so effectively) are far more worthy of contempt and dissaproval from people than most others.
This guy should be ashamed of himself for attempting to rip the scab off of what took America years, decades to heal from. I thought the barbaric days of "AIDS Kills F*** Dead" was behind us, and this kind of nauseating demeanor that this "columnist" is trying to inflict upon us was something confined to the shadows, where hate and bigotry belong.
Head into the shadows, Mr. Farah, where you belong. Jump in a cave with other hateful people like Osama Bin Laden. And while you're at it, take Ann Coulter with you. A cordial and tolerant society has no need for your trash.
Thanks,
-GA