Posted on 08/04/2021 4:45:52 PM PDT by simpson96
Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are more than twice as likely as heterosexuals to have a long-term mental health condition, an analysis of NHS data suggests.
They are also more likely to drink heavily and smoke, the report says.
About 2% of people said they were lesbian, gay or bisexual in the 2011-18 Health Survey for England.
The findings "confirm well-established health inequalities for LGB people", say rights groups.
Of the adults surveyed over the eight years, 1,132 or 2%, identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. Participants weren't asked about trans status or gender identity, but this is being considered for future surveys.
About 16% of LGB respondents reported having a long-term mental or behavioural disorder, compared with 6% of heterosexual adults.
LGB people also reported lower average mental well-being scores than heterosexual people, with LGB women having the lowest score of all groups.
They were also more likely to drink more than the recommended units of alcohol.
One-third of LGB adults drank more than 14 units of alcohol a week, an amount which "put them at increased or higher risk of alcohol-related harm", compared with a quarter of heterosexual people.
The proportion of people who drank no alcohol was similar among white people of different sexualities, but among ethnic minority communities, LGB people were more likely than heterosexuals to drink.
LGB people were also significantly more likely to smoke. This includes one in three LGB women, compared with one in six heterosexual women.
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In the OLD PDR they were listed a mental illnesses , but then their publicity arm went to work to have them removed
“People are born with cleft plates and club feet...we try to repair them...not say “That’s how they were born.”
The folks truly born that way are aberrations to the norm...the low end of the bell curve. Not saying they should be scorned or bullied but not accepted as normal either.”
More humans have brown eyes than have blue eyes. Blue eyes aren’t normal. I have blue eyes.
When I went to college we were taught that the gay population was 5%. Looking around they are the most powerful 5% in the country
The irony is Joe Goebbels was born with a Club Foot.
They infiltrated and took over the media, they drove out the normals over the years, and now they control it all, soup to nuts.
Calling captain obvious
Duh.
That’s pretty silly. OBVIOUSLY there are variations in the realm of normality. No 2 things are ever alike.
Blue eyes affect your behavior? Affect your life in any way?
Point is, less than is not the same as abberation.
That should be very plain.
No.
Putting a penis in a rectum is disgusting.
It has no purpose in this world.
“Mental illnesses is caused by bad ideas”
~Kilgore Trout
God did not make them that way.
Not terribly surprising. Single people and urbanites are more prone to mental disorders.
Pretty much by definition.
Variations in normality? If the majority isn’t considered normal, it’s an opinion based on prejudice.
Variations in normality? If the majority isn’t considered normal, it’s an opinion based on prejudice.
A bit presumptuous
Must be time for...
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
“LGB people exist.”
Wrong. Excusing one’s bad behavior by inventing an identity to identify with doesn’t make it real. Neither does forcing other people to lie along with you.
Unexpectedly....
Ya think?
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