... members are really doing behind the scene.

I grew up in Chattanooga and went to an inner-city "magnet school" 7-9 and then McCallie School for Boys 10-12, and rode public transportation for the most part. I was also a year ahead of myself, having skipped the 4th grade, so I was a year younger than my classmates. I was approached on numerous occasions by queers/paedophiles while waiting for the bus. There were about half a dozen regulars who cruised the bus stops almost daily ... I still remember one red/white 55 or 56 model Chevy driven by someone perhaps in their late 20s or early 30s, and a same vintage Olds driven by a man perhaps in his 50s ... all my friends knew to avoid these queers. They probably wouldn't be able to get away with that kind of activity these days ... folks are too smart ... those perverts would either be in jail or on a pervert list.

There are lots of paedophile queers in junior high and high school boys' athletic programs, boy scouts, YMCA, etc. My scout leader tried to queer me while I was asleep on a camping trip ... I think I might have been 11 or 12. The few times that I went to the Chattanooga YMCA, I was approached. Fortunately, I was very "street smart", very strong for my age, and quite capable of protecting myself, so I knew what was coming down, and I was prepared to do major damage if necessary.

As you can tell by my posts, I don't have a lot of compassion for paedophiles or queers, nor do I really see any distinction between the two ... they are one and the same to me. Furthermore, a lot of them bring upon themselves whatever troubles they encounter, so you won't find me campaigning for "hate crime" legislation.

I personally don't care if adult homosexuals want to have a relationship ... in fact, I have an in-law-type relative who openly partners with another male, and both of them are extremely likeable, intelligent, successful and well-accepted ... one nice thing is that they don't offend others by overdoing the affection thing in public. What I object to is the "bathhouse fiend-type" who has indiscriminate sex with unknowns and spreads STDs, and there are a huge number of them. From 1981 through 1993, I was CIO/VP of a $15 billion company. One of our senior executives contracted HIV/AIDS at a bathhouse in NYC and died soon thereafter, so evidently socio-economic standing is not necessarily a barrier to this kind of promiscuous behavior. You can see from CDC statistics that in 2007, and pretty much uniformly in prior years, about 75% of new HIV/AIDS cases in males results from male-male sexual contact, 14% from high risk heterosexual contact, 10% from shared-needle injection drug use, and only 1% from unspecified cause (mostly accidental body fluid exchange). In females, the result is quite different: 83% from high-risk heterosexual contact (and I will add that research shows that the majority of this originated from contact with bi-sexual males), 16% from shared-needle injection drug use, and only 1% from "Other" causes, which would include accidental infections and female-female sexual contact. In other words, HIV/AIDS is virtually non-existent in non-drug-using Lesbian relationships, even when there is a fair abount of Lesbian-only promiscuity. Aside from indiscriminate shared-needle injection drug use, the only way a woman will ever get HIV/AIDS is from an infected male ... and, reasoning backwards from that, women were never the root cause for the spread of HIV/AIDS in the US ... men were ... given that observation, in the beginning back in the 1980s, men were not getting HIV/AIDS from women, and now, 25⁺ years into the disease, only 14% of the HIV/AIDS in males is from heterosexual contact ... the conclusion: male homosexuals and bisexuals are overwhelmingly responsible for the incidence and spread of HIV/AIDS in the US, and virtually the only way women in the US got the disease in numbers was through sexual contact with bi-sexual males, and to a lesser extent, shared-needle injection drug use.

Here's statistics for 2007 ... note that this is data only for the cases diagnosed in 2007 ... the actual number of cases is perhaps far greater:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm

This link will download a PDF of the 2007 data:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/PDF/us.pdf

Much more information here:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/index.htm#Surveillance