Posted on 12/31/2008 12:26:18 AM PST by CE2949BB
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29, 2008 - For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood. The findings will be published in the January issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a peer-reviewed article entitled "Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young Adults."
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:) Happy New Year!
I’m definitely wondering what the near future will hold.
From a political perspective, Were I you, I would not be singing “Happy Days are Here Again.”
The outrageous ACT UP meets Sturmabteilung reaction to Prop 8 is just begging for political retribution. It may have felt real good at the time but there’s going to be a price. Unlike the antics of twenty years ago there’s no feelings of guilt on the part of the general population to draw on for sympathy. All that people like me can see is the in-your-face bullying. The militants can intimidate individual political donors and trash churches, but they can’t intimidate Harry and Louise in the privacy of the voting booth. Activist judges are their friends but activist judges are also supreme finger-in-the-winders.
As for Obama... Well, I for one, honestly do not believe he had any idea of the reaction that the choice of pastor Rick Warren to deliver his inaugural invocation would set off, but you lot turned it into a free “Sistah Souljah” moment for him. He may be a liberal’s liberal but he’s also a Chicago boy and he does not strike me as the sort to let a bitch-slap go unredressed. It’s only the cringing, kick-me sign-wearing Republicans who do that and Big “O” has every reason to sacrifice a sacred bullock or two to gain mainstream acceptance in the body politic. In any case, he has a well-established record of tossing people and pet causes under the bus when they become a liability.
Uh, I’m very conservative. Pro-life, in favor of the death penalty, strong on defense, anti-collectivist, etc. There is no way in heck that I’m happy about an Obama presidency or Democrat congress.
I agree that the reaction to Prop 8 has been absurd. Protests are fine, but having signs with “burn their churches”, interrupting services, and similar things cross a line. I also agree that democracy is generally preferable to judicial fiat.
“Uh, Im very conservative. Pro-life, in favor of the death penalty, strong on defense, anti-collectivist, etc. There is no way in heck that Im happy about an Obama presidency or Democrat congress.”
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Impossible! People like you don’t exist!
Seriously, be careful what you say in public. From what I understand, it’s lonely being a black conservative, but in some quarters, it can be physically dangerous to be a gay conservative.
“Seriously, be careful what you say in public. From what I understand, its lonely being a black conservative, but in some quarters, it can be physically dangerous to be a gay conservative.”
While I appreciate your concern, keeping quiet is exactly what the leftists (and sadly, some on the right) want us to do.
Happy New Year to you, too!
Author Tammy Bruce (who wrote The Death of Right and Wrong) has said some interesting things in person and in her book as well.
I can’t make him or her “not gay”. Nor can I control what they do in their own life. I’m not looking to “turn the kid” from being gay, although I think that kids are confused and can decide what their sexuality is. Moreso, as I said, I think people can decide how to live their lives, becasue we have a soul and we are not just animals.
We can choose what we do, without regard to our baser instincts.
I couldn’t figure out how to say that, I meant a gay love-interest. I’m not sure it would be bad to let a child bring such a person into the house under supervision, but I presume some people would oppose such a thing, and this group might consider it “rejection”.
I would have no problem if my children had gay friends who they wanted to invite over.
I certainly had gay friends I hung around with in my life, and we had a gay person in our bible study, and I work with gay people.
There are a lot of women who go lesbian and then switch back. We call them “bisexual”, mostly because otherwise we would have to admit that gayness is a lifestyle choice, not hereditary, at least in women.
People are attracted to a subset of the population. The concept that they must only be attracted to people of one sexuality or another is absurd, especially when you consider that if you dress a man up like a woman, and make them attractive enough, you can get another man to want to have sex with them.
If gayness was hereditary and based on some actual physical nature, heterosexuals wouldn’t be attracted to same-sex people who simply dressed opposite.
“If gayness was hereditary and based on some actual physical nature, heterosexuals wouldnt be attracted to same-sex people who simply dressed opposite.”
Not sure I understand the logic here. Once most heterosexuals find out that it’s “tranny surprise” time, they get the heck out of there. How is the fact that some men can’t tell a woman from a man in drag at a distance or in a dimly lit setting proof of much of anything?
I know several women who went lesbo for awhile because of bad relationships with men, but eventually went back to being hetero, which is their true nature.
You've probably heard the term before, but some in college call themselves LUGs (Lesbian Until Graduation).
If gayness was hereditary and based on some actual physical nature, heterosexuals wouldnt be attracted to same-sex people who simply dressed opposite.
Hmm. Not sure what you mean here.
” Im not looking to turn the kid from being gay, although I think that kids are confused and can decide what their sexuality is.”
Do you believe that gays are trying to turn kids gay?
Well, think about it for a minute. What does it mean to be “attracted” to a person? What is it that “attracts” the man to the other man who is dressed like a woman. What is it that later “turns him off”?
What does it mean to be “gay”? Does it mean you prefer anal sex? Is there a difference between a man and a woman in that regard? Does it mean you prefer oral sex? Is there a difference between a man and a woman in that regard?
Why to men in prison have gay sex? Do they turn gay? I don’t think so. But they seem to enjoy having gay sex — because they overcome their conditioned aversion to it. The sex isn’t about attraction, or love, it’s just a sexual release, and they can “enjoy” it at the hands of a man.
Of course, men have sex with animals as well, and they mostly don’t “love” them.
Now, what is it that defines a person as being “gay”? It can’t be anything to do with wanting to have “gay sex”, since as we just noted, gay sex is not something that requires a male partner.
So, it must be an attraction to the “personality” of man. But now we have to consider that some men have feminine personalities. In fact, in many cases we see gay men as being feminine, and it “makes sense” to us they are attracted to men, since they seem to be female. We conveniently ignore that the man they are attracted to is masculine, but have chosen a male who has feminine qualities.
My theory is that these men simply find that other men are easier to understand because, being men, they understand men, while they don’t understand women. I think they also have rejection issues, and find it easier to deal with men who tend not to reject people like women do.
My point is that we are treating “gayness” as some mystical attraction men have to other men instead of women — but if there was such a mystical attraction, it wouldn’t be deceived by appearance. Man is turned off when they see male parts, because they wanted female parts, but until that time they seemed to have no trouble being attracted to another male, to interact in a sexual and loving way.
Likewise, you’d expect that a gay person could have that happen with a woman who dressed like a man.
Note that in the popular fictional culture, we have stories where women are dressing like men and males are attracted to them but feel bad about that because they think it makes them gay.
In Tootsie, they played the same story with the woman being attracted to Tootsie and thinking she was a lesbian.
In fact, she was attracted to the feminine, loving personality Dustin Hoffman played, not a “female”.
Anyway, this has been rambling. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to write this coherently, or if I do if it would ever be acceptable to do so because of the censorship of discussion of these issues.
Certainly. But they can’t admit it, first because it would put the lie to their insistance that children are “born” that way (notwithstanding the fact that people who are around gay people in a culture that accepts gayness are more likely to be gay than those who are not), and second because they want to pretend they are non-threatening, because while people have come to “tolerate” gayness, nobody really WANTS their children to be gay.
That’s a little sick.
All I can say is that I believe you to be dead wrong, but I’m not going to argue with you on this one.
And yeah, I’m well aware that no one really wants a gay child. That’s made perfectly clear by society’s attitudes on the subject.
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