[quote]harris447 wrote:
Y’think there’s any possibility the reason gays are so depressed and prone to suicide is people like you screaming about how they’re going to hell and that they’re “unnatural”?
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Interesting question harris. And I think this is your first post in a long time which did not (at least directly) include attack words. Kudos! 
As to your question:
It seems that alcoholics have a larger degree of anxiety and depression as well. Do you think they drink because they are depressed? Or, are they depressed so they drink?
(Either way it’s a destructive life. But not as destructive a life as homosexuality. According to the statistics alcoholics live longer and healthier lives than homosexuals and lesbians!)
Interesting stuff the politically correct hate to read.
Back on topic:
Do fat people eat because they are depressed or are they depressed because they are fat?
On and on…
It’s my contention and there is sufficient data to back up the contention that homosexuals feel “different” from a very young age.
Why they feel “different” has been and will be debated for quite sometime. I think they feel different because of external reasons. As some research points out homosexual males usually have a distant father and a domineering mother. But that’s not always the case. They can feel different for other reasons as well.
The powerful gay lobbies and the social liberals will tell you that they are born with inherent homosexual desires, but this has never been proven! But because of their closed minded stance much research is either neglected or not done because people are in fear of being labeled a homophobe.
So, in one way the gay lobbies and social liberals win. But in a much larger way they lose! As we are not even close to understand why people are gay. And that is a very important topic and should be researched at even greater depths.
I think (at this point) homosexuals are somehow ostrasized as children and this somehow develops into erotic feelings for those of the same sex.
A better explanation by those who know more:
"Friedman, Richard, Downey, Jennifer. (1993) Neurobiology and Sexual Orientation: Current Relationships, 5. J. Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences 131, 139.
Some typical childhood factors related to homosexuality are: feeling of being different from other children; parent, sibling, peer relationships; perception of father as being distant, uninvolved, unapproving; perception of parental perfection required; perception of mother as being too close, too involved; premature introduction to sexuality (such as child abuse or incest); gender confusion; defensive detachment, reparative drive, same-sex ambivalence; unmet affection needs; diminished/distorted masculinity, femininity."
"Nimmons, David. (March 1994). Sex and the Brain, Discover, 64-71.
"It is important to stress what I didn’t find.
I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain. INAH 3 is less likely to be the sole gay nucleus of the brain than a part of a chain of nuclei engaged in men and women’s sexual behavior?. Since I looked at adult brains, we don’t know if the differences I found were there at birth, or if they appeared later."
"Romeo, M.E., et al. (2001, October). Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 30 (5): 535-541.
942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation that did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation."
Byne, W., (1994). The Biological Evidence Challenged. Scientific American, 54.
“The incidence of homosexuality in the adopted brothers of homosexuals (11%) was much higher than recent estimates for the rate of homosexuality in the population (1 to 5%).”
“Indeed, perhaps the major finding of these heritability studies is that despite having all of their genes in common and having prenatal and postnatal environments as close to identical as possible, approximately half of the identical twins were nonetheless discordant for orientation. This finding underscores just how little is known about the origins of sexual orientation.”
It’s all very interesting but more research needs to follow. Until then we would indeed be foolhardy to allow same sex unions at any level!
The pain that homosexuals experience has more to do with the lifestyle that they lead than what others think of the lifestyle that they lead.
Think about it. One is external which means that there is some play on regular basis, but not much. The other is internal. They live with themselves day after day week after week year after year. They go from one relationship to another. The abuse is higher, the health risks are higher, disease is higher. Just about all of the dangers are higher.
Would anyone rational person be happy for long under those conditions?
We do know for sure that this is not a happy or healthy life for anyone who considers themselves homosexual. And quite honestly it’s very sad that those on the far left fail to see the paiin of those they say they are trying to help.