Is ‘Gay’ Agenda to blame forTeen Suicides?
October 10, 2010 // afaofpa // Homosexual AgendaIs ‘gay’ agenda to blame for teen suicides?
Exclusive: Linda Harvey points finger at ‘child-corruption advocates’ in schools
Posted: October 06, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
Details are sketchy in the recent rash of homosexual-related teen suicides throughout the nation, but already the “gay” lobby is ready to exploit our children one more time.
In Minnesota, seven students committed suicide in recent months, three said to be involved in homosexuality. A college student at Rutgers jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his homosexual rendezvous was secretly filmed by his roommate and then broadcast over the Internet. The roommate and another student face criminal charges.
A 13-year-old in California and another in Texas killed themselves following student taunts about homosexuality. A 15-year-old in Indiana hanged himself over homosexual-related harassment.
And now we hear that another young man, 19-year-old Rhode Island college student Raymond Chase, hanged himself. He, too, believed he was “gay.”
How do families and school communities cope with such tragedy? As a parent, I cannot even imagine the heartbreak. In trying to prevent such devastating events in the future, emotional manipulation can lead schools and communities to implement wrongheaded, harmful plans of action. That’s what is being attempted now. But it’s nothing new. It’s been the modus operandi of homosexual activism for the past 20 years.
It’s time to stop it, now.
Would widespread community embrace of homosexuality and gender-switching prevent some of these suicides? Or is misinformation actually a contributor to the despair embedded in these tragedies?
The homosexual lobby has gone into full demand mode, particularly GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) and the Human Rights Campaign. Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan hosted a national summit on bullying with homosexual activists present and featuring former GLSEN president and “safe schools” czar Kevin Jennings. There’s a renewed press for passage of H.R. 4530, national legislation that goes beyond stronger anti-bullying measures to incorporate mandatory pro-”gay” propaganda.
GLSEN’s School Climate Survey claims nearly nine out of 10 “gay” students are harassed at school. However, as True Tolerance has pointed out, the survey results are unreliable. It is administered online, not conducted according to professional research standards.
As the pressure groups scream for pro-homosexual policies, they simultaneously seek to prohibit all speech opposing homosexual behavior, which is viewed as harassment or contributing to it. Compulsory re-education is the only solution, because saying “no” to homosexuality always leads to such tragedy, or so they claim. In the fantasy world of these child-corruption advocates, there’s an unbroken line connecting the actual bullies to any and all who stand up against sexual deviance.
In other words, it’s not sufficient to punish the individuals involved. No, everyone must pay because traditional heterosexual culture is guilty for daring to believe homosexuality is a negative, not a positive.
Could there be another answer, one that deals with reality?
Recent trends in public schools might provide some clues. “Gay” advocacy is growing, now aimed at kids at younger and younger ages. Over 4,000 homosexual clubs have been formed in the past decade, some now at the middle-school level. New, often sexually graphic fiction urges children to explore alternate sexual behavior and gender norms. GLSEN’s explicit book recommendations come to mind. And the Human Rights Campaign’s “Welcoming Schools” program reaches down to grade schoolers to normalize aberrant lifestyles.
Kids are urged to “come out” early. That’s exactly what several of these young victims did, and such actions are often associated with subsequent early suicide attempts.
As the supporters of homosexuality nudge kids into a known risky behavior, one associated with much higher rates of HIV and other STDs, they simultaneously suppress, marginalize or mischaracterize traditional views that discourage homosexuality.
The already troubled youngster is often the one drawn to homosexuality or gender compromise and is extremely vulnerable. For many reasons, the grand experiment is crashing before our eyes. But it’s our precious young people, the targets of the double barrels of cruel words as well as cruel sexual manipulation, who are paying the ultimate price.
One wonders if any of these kids ever heard a clearly articulated warning against homosexuality. Or were they faced with a continuous onslaught of pro-homosexual diversity lessons, novels and events like the “Day of Silence”? Were they surrounded with liberal teachers as role models and the bad example of a homosexual school club? What part did any of this play in the sad belief that homosexuality was an inevitable destiny, instead of a wayward yet changeable sexual inclination? Under almost continuous pressure to accept a lie – confusion and then despair may be the predictable result.
On top of all this, then, in some young lives come the bullies. They are a part of life, especially for boys. But for the young person with same-sex attractions, this is the final straw where they feel totally trapped, with internal feelings they have been carefully taught “cannot be changed” on the one hand, and harsh peer rejection on the other. Yes, it looks hopeless indeed.
But there’s a solution. First and foremost, kids should be told the truth that no one is born gay. Despite any budding feelings he or she may have, many people who felt similarly at that age went on to change both their feelings and behavior, and to be well-adjusted adult heterosexuals, some married with children. The gay lobbyists actively prevent kids from knowing this option. Why can’t they be “pro-choice” regarding homosexuality?
And then, the actual bullies need swift and public punishment, just as in any other instance of bullying. No looking the other way, but also no greater punishment if “anti-gay” slurs and taunts are involved. Equality should reign, as reflected in the decision by many schools to leave special rights for “GLBT” lifestyles out of beefed-up bullying prevention policies. Some states have made the similar wise choice in state law, refusing to be used by advocates as a back-door means to validate harmful conduct.
Could the stifling political correctness in certain schools be one of the reasons some kids feel utterly hopeless? Think about it. Even in the face of relentless taunts about homosexuality, many if not most kids would be able to survive intact if they saw the perpetrators punished and also knew they had a choice.
Let’s consider the real goal of homosexual activism: that everyone becomes comfortable with homosexuality, that even personal revulsion is no longer acceptable. This re-imagined “gay” utopia depends upon a widely accepted lie.
But comfort does not equate with goodness. Even if people became much more placid about open homosexuality among 13-year-olds, it still eventually emerges as the brutal violation of childhood innocence, and natural gender and heterosexual identity, that it is. The essence of authentic goodness cannot be suppressed without dire consequences now or later.
The answer is what the answer always has been in America: Punish the guilty and continue to uphold the honorable, the true and the good. No other path will be fair or just for our children, now and in the future.
Linda Harvey is president of Mission America and hosts a daily radio talk show in Ohio.
Topics: bullying, GLSEN, schools, suicide
Wondering how many of you out there have gone through the same process as I have and reached the same conclusion.
More than once amidst the clamor from the homosexual lobby, I’ve thrown up my hands in exasperation and said to myself, “Let them get ‘married’, give them their special protections against ‘discrimination’ and whatever else they are squealing about. Whatever it takes to make them feel ‘equal’ so they will shut up once and for all.
Soon the realization kicks in that there will never be a day when they shut up, believe they are equal and stop making new demands.
A recent example of this came to my attention just days ago. Saw on the news that the rainbow flag has been raised at Philadelphia’s City Hall. I was confused at first. This is October. June is the month that has for some time been turned over to the homosexuals so they can parade in the streets and demonstrate their ‘pride’ in being sexual deviants. I pieced this flag raising together with recently reading on the web that there is an upcoming “National Coming Out Day” this month and it began to emerge that something of a broader scale is going on in the month of October. Sure enough, this is “LGBT History Month”.
So what we see from this is that the homosexuals are not content wih just one month dedicated to them. No, it’s two and counting. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if they try to pull off a “National Transgender Month” in the near future to ‘celebrate’ gender bending.
And maybe that ‘history’ business in October is a tipoff of something more. Black folk have their historic figure honored with Martin Luther King Day. The characteristic arrogance and narcissism of the homosexual suggests to me that the Congress will be lobbied to establish “Harvey Milk Day” and in keeping with having both a ‘pride’ and a ‘history’ month, they will probably go after a “Matthew Shepard Day” as well.
Seems clear that the only way there is any hope of containing the homosexual agenda is with continuous unrelenting resistance.
‘gay’ youths commiting suicide & your still blaming them, sad! You say ‘your not born gay’ – it’s just a choice. So if you can just say – I choose not to be gay, why commit suicide??? Your a lost cause, like I said SAD!
As Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) board member Stephen Glassman said in October 1997 at GLSEN’s 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Conference entitled “From Dirt Road to Cyberspace: LGBT Issues in Education for the 21st Century,” “I don’t want to be tolerated. I don’t want to be put up with. I want to be…celebrated.”
Comment to Richard: Apparently you have misread Linda’s article. It does not blame youth who identify as ‘gay,’ rather the finger is pointed at the “adults” in organizations such as GLSEN and HRC who are pushing this lifestyle in schools and telling kids gay is okay.’ Organizations such as these are using impressionable children to further their political goals.
Ten gay youths commited suicide this month alone! You anti gay bigots have blood on your hands, you know it & your running scared! Blaming all but themselves, twisted bigots. How can being gay be a choice if people commit suicide over it? Also being gay doesn’t make you commit suicide, nor do gay groups. Gay people are commiting suicide because they are bullied by weak minded people who believe all the anti gay rubbish this site preaches! Glad people are now realising the REAL truth not your twisted bigoted views. You preach about gays telling half truths, surely that what afa does! All your views fall at the first hurdle. Think about it – you not even answered ‘if being gay was a choice why would people commit suicide’? AFA even got the nerve to blame gay groups for gay suicides! all I say, what would a suicidal gay youth think (or do) after reading your site! See, you all have blood on your hands & you know it, but your too bigoted to realise. You say black is not the same as gay, no it’s worse! If a black person gets racial bullied at school at least he can turn to his black parents for support. But if a gay person gets bullied can they turn to their gay – opps straight parents for support? Remember gay kids come from straight parents! See that’s another hurdle you stumble on, you preach gay parent will produce gay children, think about it – if that was true then every gay child would be straight, as they all come from straight families. But your twisted bigoted views stop you from seeing the truth.
Yes, homosexual parents are more likely to raise children who experiment with homosexuality. In her book Children as Trophies? European sociologist Patricia Morgan reviewed 144 published studies on same-sex parenting and concludes that it fosters homosexual behavior, confused gender roles, and increased likelihood of serious psychological problems later in life. In 2004, Judith Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz, both supporters of gay parenting, published a study entitled, “(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?.” They conclude, “children raised by parents with same-sex attraction showed empathy for “social diversity”, were less confined by gender stereotypes, more likely to have confusion about gender identity, more likely to engage in sexual experimentation and promiscuity, and more likely to explore homosexual behavior.”
@Richard says:
“Ten gay youths commited suicide this month alone! You anti-gay bigots have blood on your hands”
————-
How about if we start by refraining from the name-calling. You know as well as I do, Richie, if I were to use the ‘fa-word’ on you, you’d be squealing like a stuck pig.
OK, so ten gay youths commited suicide. It is tragic, agreed. But it is just as tragic when ‘non-gay’ youth do it, and by your omission you demonstrate that you do not value the lives of straight youth equally. How many straight youth commited suicide during that time span? I’d be surprised if you even know. But without knowing that, your uproar has no context. And bear in mind that there are over 300 million people in this country. So take out your calculator and divide 10 by 300,000,000 and see what kind of a percentage you come up with. Doubt that you could count all the zeros without using your fingers and moving your lips.
Do your research too. The Feb 2002 issue of “The Monitor on Psychology” ( a publication of THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION) states :”A new study of gay and lesbian youth finds that they are only slightly more likely than heterosexual youth to commit suicide, refuting previous research that suggested much higher rates”.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb02/newdata.aspx
What I see taking place just recently is that following the tragic suicide of the Rutgers student, you and other homosexual activists saw opportunity knocking to exploit it in order to spread your message. So within a matter of days, I saw five more suicides being blared about on the web (the Minnesota ones as I recall) and now you and others have number pumped up to ten. Seems like through sheer numbers, you are trying to manufacture something of the magnitude of the Matthew Shepard incident and then milk it for all you can.
The emotional will no doubt get swept up in the hullabaloo of shame and outrage you are trying to create.
The critical thinker will instead recognize:
a)what you have is statistically insignificant and meaningless.
b)that the sister organization of the APA, (the very foundation of the house of cards that your movement is built upon having removed homosexuality from the DSM), the APA itself is saying that ‘gay’ youth are little more likely than straight to commit suicide.
c)MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL- the glaring hypocrisy of your failure to even mention let alone recognize that the lives of straight youth are just as valuable as ‘gay’.
And you and yours indict yourselves with your own sloganeering:
“Equality for ALL” – remember that one, Richie? Troubled straight youth are a part of “ALL”, too.
The “HUMAN Rights Campaign”. Funny, but I’ve never seen that outfit even mention let alone stand up for the rights of anyone who is not a sexual deviant.