Gay Marriage Encourages Meth Fired Orgies! Part 1

A UU (One Dawn Mueller) living in the Chicago area (Central Midwest District, where I'm president) wrote this last week. I got on the list from our UUA trustee, I think.

Part 1 is her letter, but Part 2, the next post is the UUA response which is wonderful. I reprint them here on this blog, because I think it is important to remember that not all UUs are of one mind when it comes to politics, social justice, their intersection, and what "the right thing to do" is.

Dear Reverend Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and

Reverend Mark Stringer, Minister of the Des Moines First Unitarian Church, and

Reverend Nancy Haley, Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City, and

Reverend Gail Tapsott, Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale, and

Reverend Sherod Mallow, All Saints Episcopal Church of Fort Lauderdale, and

Rabbi Harold Caminker, Congregation Etz Chaim, Wilton Manors, Florida

(with copies to several Midwestern and Florida UU district members)

I am a UU who currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois -- a very GLBT-friendly community. I am formerly a resident of Iowa City, Iowa -- another very GLBT friendly community. I am writing out of concern for the ongoing efforts of the UUA and independent UU congregations in pushing for same-sex marriage legislation and other GLBT advocacy.

I'll be blunt. I feel as if the UUA has been hijacked by GLBT activists. I feel that the organization is advocating for a totally sex-blind society without truly understanding the social impact on individual, families, communities and the national morality and public health as a whole.

We are proceeding by ideology, not rationality. In our rush to promote a theoretically-impossible mathematical equality of human bodies, we are inadvertently promoting group sex, anorectal sex, anonymous sex, promiscuity, crystal meth-fired orgies and other illicit drug use and dependence. These are all high-risk behaviors for disease transmission throughout the public.

The result is an ever-growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in this country, along with the increased prevalence and incidence of other sexually-transmitted diseases. Bisexual males are exhibiting bridge-population behavior that is injecting disease into women, children and newborn babies. These infections have been incubated in a pool of promiscuous "men who have sex with men" and transmitted to women by men "on the Down Low."

I break with the pack of lemming Unitarian Universalists who feel that they must support a liberal cause, merely because it is touted as a "liberal cause." In our headlong plunge to promote our principle of "a free and responsible search for meaning," we are forgetting the word RESPONSIBLE.

Is it responsible of us to force conservatives and other persons who see the dangers of a society without sexual boundaries to have us in their faces each election cycle promoting a complete restructuring of society? Must we shove our ideology down the throats of the conservative, rural Midwest? Must we hijack the Iowa caucuses for our own sexual desires? Is it responsible for us to inadvertently promote the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases across the country? We need to STOP and look at what impact this Unitarian Universalist crusade is having on the public health of America.

I give you the example of Broward and Miami-Dade counties in Florida. These counties are infested with HIV/AIDS and other STDs. The primary disease vector is the subpopulation of "men who have sex with men." Public health statistics and analyses by the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida state public health department are quite clear in indicating this group as the main disease pool. It is from this pool that infections are moving into women, children and babies via infected men who engage in high-risk sex with men, then go infect women, many of whom are oblivious to the man's homosexual exploits. This is having a horrifying effect, especially, on African-American and Hispanic women, and it is affecting women of all walks of life. Sexually-irresponsible visitors to the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale region get infected there and bring these bugs back to the Midwest. I am a Unitarian Universalist, but I am also a woman, and I must put my foot down against this danger to the health of women and children.

Therefore, I stand in support of efforts by individuals such as Mayor Jim Naugle of Fort Lauderdale, who is very bravely standing up against the results of our foolishness, having recognized that it is women and children in his jurisdiction who are being harmed. He has, with great courage, stood up to the local and national liberals and GLBT activists and tourist business magnates who have attacked him for simply pointing out the very obvious relationship between high-risk sexual behavior and the exploding HIV/AIDS/STD problem in Broward County and Miami-Dade County in Florida.

Why the heck are we inadvertently promoting gay bathhouses, sex clubs, "tearoom sex" and orgies? Is it our goal to make America a place for equal-opportunity infection by devastating sexually-transmitted diseases? Why are we trying to make the anus and rectum mathematically and legally equivalent to the introit and the vagina? Is it so that we can all, equally, enjoy the fun of having AIDS and syphilis?

Attached please find a copy of a letter I have submitted to the City of Fort Lauderdale in support of Mayor Jim Naugle, in which I state my position, as a Unitarian Universalist. I want their local elected officials to realize that it's not just "radical right-wing Christian fundamentalist Reconstructionists" who are concerned about our Unitarian efforts to restructure American society.

Now that I see what we Unitarians are doing in Iowa, with respect to forcing gay marriage down the throats of conservative Midwestern farmers, I have to stand up and shout that we have gone too far. We have truly lost our marbles and are violating the right of Americans to have some social boundaries and stability in their daily lives. If we keep this up, the disease-infested polyamory crowd will be at the altar next, with "tearoom marriages" after that, performed by anyone who throws a long, rainbow-colored scarf around his or her neck and claims that he or she is a Unitarian Universalist minister.

We cannot put our faith in that holy garment, the condom. There is no such thing as "safe sex." "Safer sex" is not safe. Condoms break. Condoms leak. Condoms don't always get worn. "Barebacking" homosexuals scorn the condom. And HPV has been shown to be transmitted, even when condoms are worn. As a woman who was raped in the past and contracted the HPV virus, and who now is coping with cervical cancer, I can attest that no woman is completely safe from sexually-transmitted disease, not even those who are not sexually active. I urge the UUA and its member congregations to put on the brakes before America becomes another South Africa.