The typical lifespan of homosexuals suggests that their activities are more destructive than smoking and about as dangerous as drugs. Smokers and drug addicts don’t live as long as non-smokers or non-addicts, so we consider smoking and narcotics abuse harmful. Is the historic stance against homosexuality merely one of prejudice? Is homosexual behavior really as harmless as gays and these health associations assert? Homosexuals Die Young Supreme Court in 1986 that “no significant data show that engaging in… oral and anal sex, results in mental or physical dysfunction.” 4 for acts and desires not harmful to anyone.” 3 The American Psychological Association and the American Public Health Association assured the U.S. and many other countries is revulsion and hostility…. Gays claim that the “prevailing attitude toward homosexuals in the U.S. Thomas Jefferson said that homosexuality should “be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one-half inch in diameter at least.” 2 Until 1961 homosexual acts were illegal throughout America. 1 In the American colonies, homosexual acts were a capital offense. Throughout history, the major civilizations and religions condemned homosexuality.