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You missed the point of my forklift analogy. Far more than 44% of forklift accidents are caused by forklift operators. In other words, you're more then 44% more likely to cause a forklift accident if you're a forklift operator than if you're not. Should that mean I should ban the issuance of forklift licenses altogether? Gays, like forklift operators need to be taken on a person-by-person basis. You can't make an assumption based on others with the same label.

Sure there are a lot of misleading numbers, again, you, the CDC, and even I have no valid way to determine how many healthy gays there are out there.

Therefore the 20% is a guess or a hunch at best. How many gays stay with the same partner for life? How could you answer that with any degree of validity? How can you say triple health care costs if you can't tell who's msm and who's not?

That's not math, that's guessing based on very limited information.

I'm White. That gives me a very much increased chance of getting skin cancer compared to non-Whites. Thankfully I know that, and I can limit my exposure to the things that cause it and take protective measures to avoid it when I choose to be in an environment where the risk factors are increased. Some Whites don't know or willfully ignore, causing increased cases of skin cancer. Gays who have been taught about increased risk factors can do the same.

Finally, the biggest point that needs to be made is the fact that you'll never change the fact that people are homosexual, and therefore none of these numbers will change based on a choice to ban gay marriage, especially combined with the fact that the act of a homosexual marrying another homosexual does nothing to increase risk of disease. In other words, by defining marriage as between a man and a woman (and not same-sex) does nothing to medically help people at all, whatsoever.