Let’s pretend there was some truth to this and vaccines were really harmful to a few in a million. Look at smallpox. It had a 30% mortality rate! Even if a few are harmed by the “cure”, isn’t that better than 30% of people who contract it dying (keep in mind smallpox was easily spread)? Now I’m not saying that we shouldn’t improve on vaccines or that we should give people vaccines we know to be harmful. And although I mock people like you, I truly understand where you’re coming from. It’s totally natural not to like Big Pharma. You shouldn’t. They’re assholes. But it doesn’t mean their stuff doesn’t work. And there’s a lot of good people behind the corporate fat cats who help to improve the world. Not to mention university and national institutes where you don’t see as much of that capitalist mongering.

Even with diseases that can be perceived as “less harmful”, it’s still important to vaccinate. There’s a concept called herd immunity; basically the more people who get vaccinated, the less people contract the disease, and the less people who can spread it. Most people don’t die from influenza and it just sucks for a couple of weeks. But the elderly, immunocompromised, and young children are vulnerable. So if I’m vaccinated, that means that no one who is vulnerable can contract it from me and so on.

If you want to read into another side of the story because you don’t want to feel like you’re a sheep believing what others tell you, I fully support you. But what happens to a lot of people is that they just end up believing the other side of the story just because those proponents are telling them what to believe. Read facts, not opinions, and decide for yourself. Just remember, when you don’t, and allow idiots like Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield make your opinions for you, people die. That is, more people die.

Now if one is gay they should have all the rights and privileges as anyone else in any country they may reside. If not they have to fight for those rights and hopefully they will win in time. All causes had to be fought for over the years.

“For God so loved everyone [gay or straight!] that He gave His only begotten Son so that all who believe in Him should not go to the judgement, but have everlasting life.”

I will spare you an exhaustive critique of the flawed logic, but I have listed a couple of rebuttals as follows:
#1. While there is a subset of people who become sick despite vaccination, they are in a tiny minority. Most of the cases of measles in recent outbreaks (not out breaks) were unvaccinated children.
#2. Illness injuries can also be for life. Ref: Franklin D. Roosevelt, or the kids from #1 with measles-induced brain damage.
#3. Many chemotherapy patients, blood transfusion recipients, and I dare I say it, vaccinated children would beg to differ. Also, this is a prime example of non-scientific writing. #3 is an opinion, not a fact.
#4. Ditto the chemotherapy patients.

I could go on, but suffice it to say, this sloppy list is uninformed hype and propaganda.

I by NO MEANS endorse blind faith in doctors or public health officials. Parents should responsibly inform themselves by researching reputable work (The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears is a great place to start). Just don’t listen to people who clearly have no clue what they are talking about.
#5. So