Professor: Being gay is like smoking, so charge LGBT people more for life insurance

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/02/professor-being-gay-is-like-smoking-so-charge-lgbt-people-more-for-life-insurance/



Professor: Being gay is like smoking, so charge LGBT people more for life insurance
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 14:11 EDT

Conservative columnist Walter Williams compared LGBT people to smokers and obese people to suggest they should pay more for life insurance.

The George Mason University economist and Rush Limbaugh guest host noted that some insurance companies charged lower premiums to customers who “hadn’t made a life-shortening lifestyle choice” – such as giving up smoking and losing weight.

Williams cited a decades-old study published by the International Journal of Epidemiology and frequently cited by anti-LGBT activists that found HIV reduced the life expectancy of gay men by eight to 20 years – although he did not mention HIV or AIDS influenced the findings.

“That’s a lifestyle shortening of life expectancy greater than obesity and tobacco use,” Williams wrote. “Yet one never hears of insurance companies advertising lower premiums for heterosexual men. You say, ‘That would be discrimination.’ You’re right, but why is it acceptable for insurance companies to discriminate against smokers and the obese but not homosexuals?”

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1. a black man is actually advocating higher premiums based on bigoted criteria??

not a deep thinker, this professor....

[unhappycamper]

2. He kinda reminds me of Herb (9-9-9) Cain.

Cain is also a douchebag.

[Feral Child]

3. Apparently, ignorance

is not the sole property of the Master Race. Go figure...

[all american girl]

4. My son just started his 3rd yr at GMU....

this summer I was saying I didn't realize how conservative the school was. He said, mom just the econ is (I think he also meant business). He's in Computer Science, and he said they aren't so much...I think maybe a bit libertarian, but not nutty....sometimes I do have to reel him back in to the liberal fold , I'm a good mommy

He did say that the liberal arts...pretty liberal, so I think GMU is pretty much like any university. My hubby graduated from University of Iowa, I went to school there and lived there...and the business college was a bunch of conservative freaks-Reagan years, need I say more....

[shenmue]

5. "Rush Limbaugh guest host"

That says a lot.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Actually, lesbians have the lowest rate of HIV among all demographics

Does that mean Williams is suggesting we get a discount?

What an idiot.

[joeybee12]

7. Idiot

You could argue this with him, but he's too stupid to understand.

[sakabatou]

8. *headdesk*