Bryan Fischer is actually on vacation this week and has had guest hosts filling in for him on his radio program.
So what is it that Fischer does while he is on vacation? Apparently just look for news stories that he can cite to "support" his obsession with seeing gay sex criminalized.
Yesterday he cited an article about an adult film actor who contracted HIV to call for "appropriate sanctions" for those who engage in gay sex, and today he is citing an article on the dangers of smoking to claim that the government ought to be working to reduce, and eventually eliminate, gay sex:
As long as we’re on the subject of health, what the surgeon general did not say but should have is that the same is true of homosexual behavior: the first act of gay sex can be the one that kills you ... Smoking will cut six to seven years from the lifespan of the smoker, meaning a cigarette habit is less dangerous to human health and longevity than gay sex.
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If a case can be made that cigarette smoking should be made illegal, a far better case can be made for making homosexual sex contrary to public policy, as it was in every state in the Union until 1962, and in 49 states until 1972. It’s still against the law in 12 states, although the Supreme Court, in another egregious act of judicial activism, prohibited states from governing themselves in this matter in the Lawrence ruling of 2003.
Now the surgeon general knows she can’t make it illegal in the current political climate, so she’ll settle for a vigorous effort to reduce the practice by sending a clear-cut, unambiguous message about smoking as a behavior. If you don’t smoke, don’t start. If you have started, stop.
Here’s an idea: since gay sex is more dangerous to human health than cigarette smoking, let’s make sure our public policies on both are the same.
I will be content at this juncture in American history for our public policy on homosexual conduct to be the same as our public policy on cigarette smoking, and for the same reason: the hazard they pose to public health.
The goal of the surgeon general’s office, since it can’t make smoking illegal, is to reduce the smoking rate from its current 20 percent to 12 percent by 2020.
We currently have between two and four percent of the population engaging in gay sex. How about we ask the surgeon general to launch a crusade to reduce the gay sex rate from four percent to one percent by 2020?
Says the surgeon general, in words that can and should be addressed to practicing homosexuals, “It's never too late to quit but the sooner you quit the better.”
In other words, the official administration policy on cigarette smoking is abstinence. Let’s make it the official government position on gay sex.
Just let me point out again that this is what Fischer does with his time while he is supposedly on vacation.
