Regarding scientist's plans to control Dengue Fever carrying mosquitoes by releasing large numbers of sterile males:
Hmmm... they took a page from Satan and all his promotion of homosexuality to damage God's creation. The word abomination (or Obama-nation) comes to mind.
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Damn, I had a vasectomy (I'm sterile) 18 years ago and no one ever told me I'm supposed to be gay now. I've missed out on all that homosexual sex over the years.
Edit: Also no one told me that Obama had anything to do with my vasectomy. I am so uninformed.
The sterile mosquitoes were developed by British scientists, so what has Obama got to do with this?
Also from here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236849.php
"The idea is that a large number of sterile males are bred and then released into the target environment where they seek out and mate with wild females, competing with wild males in the process. When a wild female mates with a sterile male, she will have no offspring, thus reducing the population of the next generation."
If anything this promotes heterosexuality, as the plan actually depends on the male mosquitoes mating with female ones.
Well, the scientists tried to teach them "abstinence only" before they resorted to sterilizing them. Unfortunately, purity pledges don't work for male mosquitoes any better than they work for fundies.
Being sterilized makes you gay? Wow. I've been saying (quite seriously) for years that I wish I were gay. After all, I have no moral objection to it, I have no desire to have children, and gay men have as much sex as straight men WISH they had. So, yeah, being gay would be awesome. There would be no downside, and a huge upside.
Unfortunately, it clearly doesn't work. I had a vasectomy eight years ago. I still like women, and have no sexual interest in men. Damn you lying Rapture Ready nutjobs for getting my hopes up.
(And we know from the abysmal failure of ex-gay ministries that sexual orientation can't be changed, so I guess there's no hope for me. I'm stuck in the life of a straight man and all the infrequent sex that goes along with it.)
Gonna go with "Meh." This one obviously has some kind of reading comprehension problem and admitted his/her mistake when corrected. For RR the thread is actually kind of funny.
The best line:
"Couldn't a childless mosquito couple just adopt?"
Obama, homosexuality, mosquitoes.
You really are incapable of thinking about anything besides gays and the black man in the White House, are you? Maybe, just maybe, you could come out?
Heh heh heh. Mosquitoes. That's such a funny word, particularly in this context.
If this person was not hemorrhaging brain cells daily, they would know that the POINT of sterilization is that they have STRAIGHT sex which then makes them fail to reproduce. If you WANTED mosquitoes to have gay sex(is that even possible? I think their mating process is gluing their hindquarters together or something, like dragonflies), then what on earth would be the point of making them sterile!? Gay sex cannot make babies!
Dude, seriously, I am queer as fuck, and I think about queerfolk way less than you people. It boggles my mind how you managed to shoehorn homosexuality into this.
The word moron comes to mind in your case.
"Interesting, the other RR-ians corrected this person and they accepted it and admitted they were wrong. Huh."
SLIGHT PROGRESS! HUZZAH!
I bet this won't last, though.
(A) Those are sterile male mosquitos, not queer male mosquitos.
(B) Assuming we could turn mosquitos queer, that would surely be a good thing.
(C) And you'd better ask yourself why everything reminds you of *that*!
they took a page from Satan and all his promotion of homosexuality to damage God's creation.
Ever eaten an all-American hotdog?
99% chance that pig was castrated. Think about that the next time you're at the ballpark.
Do you know what a mule is? Obviously a product of Satan's plan to defeat God.
Blame it on Obama if that makes you feel better.
they took a page from Satan and all his promotion of homosexuality
What page was that? One from the "Authorized Pull-It-Out-Of-Your-Ass" Version of the Bible? Besides, I thought you guys are always insisting homosexuality isn't genetic. How do you imagine scientists would create gay mosquitoes?
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If you hate what we're planning for Dengue Fever, I guarantee that you'll loathe what we're about to do to Guinea Worm.
Just like we did to rinderpest and smallpox, an organism whose only effect is to spread misery and pain is going to die out.
Go science.
Hmmm... no, They took a page from REALITY.
Anybody else notice that these fundies are gleefull at the prospect of human suffering?
You know what else is an abomination according to your bible? Shellfish.
Makes me wonder how they'd react to the news of a gay lobster, though.
@1428461"Just where in the bible does Satan actual promote homosexuality?"
Wherever the fundies say it does. Otherwise they might actually have to... you know, read the Bible. I mean, who has time for that?
I went fishing last night, and while I applied bug spray, I must have missed a few spots because there are patches of bites on the backs of my thighs and one hip. I'm one of those people who get huge welts from mosquito bites, so my legs have swollen up like sausages and it feels like I have fire ants in my pants. Any way they can get rid of those little bastards is fine by me.
@Robespierre, if the females mate with sterile males, they won't mate with fertile males - or so it says at the link. I don't know if this means they're monogamous, or maybe only get one shot at it for whatever reason.
Actually, the RR thread has some very funny bits in it. NoProvision *does* admit he/she misunderstood, and the thread rifts off into various plays on her words, hatred for mosquitoes (I think we can all agree there), and discussions of mosquito repellent.
One of the very FEW RR threads I actually didn't walk away looking for brain bleach after reading.
"Hmmm... they took a page from Satan and all his promotion of homosexuality to damage God's creation. The word abomination (or Obama-nation) comes to mind."
Excuse me? Were you saying something, or just stringing random words together?
@Robespierre:
The female mosquito only mates once. If it's with a sterile male, there are no baby mosquitoes.
The same thing was done with the screw worm fly in africa in the 1960s.
@ Robespierre and neith
The males are not sterile. They have an introduced geneticdefect that requires them and their offspring to ingest a dietary supplement found only in the laboratory, or die.
To be fair, the rest of the commenters on that thread seem to be taking the subject a lot more lightheartedly, and immediately point out NoProvision that the male mosquitoes are meant to mate with the female mosquitoes.
The rest of the thread is mostly joking
Putting on my fundy-vision glasses, I think I can see their "thought process" behind this tard...
1. Homos are are unnatural and go against god's creation (even thoguh god made us that way)
2. Sterile mosquitoes are unnaturally created by scientists (probably evil-lutionist Darwinians), thereby going against god's creation.
3. Ergo, they are related, somehow.
How this then ties in with the PotUS I have no idea unless they just love the word Obama-nation when referring to Abomination.
I can only wear fundy-vision glasses for so long, they give me a migraine.
Actually the same gene that causes homosexuality in males causes hyper-fertility in females; the overall effect of the gene has been beneficial to human population. Though I haven't seen any studies done on the opposite, I would assume the gene for homosexuality in females has the same effect on the opposite.
Leaving aside the whole gay/sterile fail, there is a prominent character in the Bible who solves His problems by releasing a swarm (or plague, if you will) of insects at it, and it isn't Satan.
The Smallpox Eradication Program, from 1950-80.
Science - 1. God - 0.
I hear there's a cure for HIV on the cards. So more righteous indignation taken away from you fundies. Good.
Moral: Science is now superior to God. Deal with it, Ruptured Retards.
As others have said, sterility does not cause homosexuality. If it truly affected a person's sex life (at least by your standards), it would be more likely to cause promiscuity (since there is no danger of pregnancy).
Secondly, this was done in the UK, not the US. As powerful as the US is, we have no control over British scientists.
Thirdly, using terms like "Obamanation" to mean "abomination" is childish and disrespectful to the man as a human being. It's just as disrespectful when people say "Dumbya" for the previous president. We liberals are supposed to be godless and immoral, what's your excuse?
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