I do care if people, gay or straight, kill themselves. But I do not feel ‘outreach’ efforts like this are productive. I think these particular outreach efforts are emphasized in order to portray straight people inherently abusive and in need of restraint.
I think time and effort would be better spent on the mental health of the general population. I think people with big problems or those without conscience end up bullying anyone they see as disenfranchised (race, religion, gay, straight, rich, poor, homeless). I don’t think ‘waiting’ until some kid is ready to kill himself to turn him toward ‘adults who care’ is wise. I think we need to concern ourselves with the causes of abusive people etc. Like broken homes, child abuse, sexual abuse of children etc. I just read a statistic today that I’ve never encountered before. 32% of children who are sexually abused are abused by homosexuals. That is 10% higher than than the prevalence of gays in the population. Gays are 10 times more likely to sexually abuse children than are heterosexuals. Attacking all forms of child abuse (sexual, psychological, neglect etc.) would do more to reduce drug abuse, suicidality, teenage pregnancy, divorce etc. than coming late to the game where individuals are ‘giving up’ (homeless, gays, straights, other groups who kill themselves)and telling them to ‘talk to someone’. Stronger development of morality, reducing psychological damage in children, reducing criminality etc. is needed. I just read FReeper post today re: Kinsey Institute. A woman who grew up during Kinsey’s heyday says Kinsey paid her father to rape her and provide Kinsey with detailed reporting data. Kinsey’s data on child sexuality has to have been gleened from infants and children involved in sex. How can this kind of pedophilia exist and just what kind of a society do we expect to have if we tolerate it? Think some of those children who were passed around a group of perverts in order to ‘support research’ had happy psychological lives or maybe some of them were...I dunno....suicidal eventually? If we are going to highlight gay victimization over other forms of victimization than we must address things like the 32% rate of child abuse due to homosexual abusers.
Thank you for your post.
I understand that many people have many perceived injuries from others in our society.
I don’t understand why this is the MAIN FOCUS of this POTUS at a time when so many in this country are losing their jobs, homes and businesses. I think there are systems in place to assist the former, but what needs to be addressed in dire form is the latter. It truly illustrates this administrations misplaced sense of PRIORITIES... big time.
According to the ENEMEDIA they're not gay, they're priests!