The professor who led the newest health-related research, Dr. Hui Liu of Michigan State University, chalked up the discrepancy to the fact that homosexuals cannot marry, as well as the burden of stress and discrimination.Posted on 02/28/2013 7:18:43 PM PST by annalex
LANSING, MI, February 28, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that gay and lesbian couples are less likely to be healthy than heterosexual couples, a finding that confirms traditional claims that homosexuality is an unhealthy lifestyle.
This study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found the starkest of contrasts when it narrowed its focus to homosexual couples living together as contrasted with married heterosexual couples.
It found that same-sex cohabiting men were 61 percent more likely to report “poor or fair health” than an equitable number of men reporting from heterosexual marriages. Same-sex cohabitating women were 46 percent more likely to report the same when compared to heterosexual married women.
Indeed, black women in a lesbian relationship were likely to report being less healthy than single, divorced, and widowed black women.
These results held after controlling the socioeconomic status of the 1,659 same-sex couples reporting.
The study confired the mounting evidence gathered through decades of studies that homosexuals are living an unhealthy and risky lifestyle.
The only epidemiological study ever done on the subject shows gay men die an average of 20 years younger than straight men – and that homosexual men have the same life expectancy all men had in 1871. The findings, published in Canada's International Journal of Epidemiology in 1997, were confirmed by a 2005 American study conducted by Dr. Paul Cameron.
Studies have consistently found that homosexuals have higher levels of depression,suicide, and alcohol or substance abuse than heterosexuals. They also tend to make less money than their heterosexual counterparts, which may account for some health care discrepancies.
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The professor who led the newest health-related research, Dr. Hui Liu of Michigan State University, chalked up the discrepancy to the fact that homosexuals cannot marry, as well as the burden of stress and discrimination.
Liu told the press, “If marriage can promote health, it is reasonable for us to expect that if same-sex couples had the advantage of legalized marriage, their health may be boosted."
Liu proceeded to suggest that filing joint tax returns may also boost health of same-sex couples, should they be permitted to “marry.”
The study did not specifically address how these assertions were supported from the data.
In the end, Liu’s study reinforced, rather than challenged, previous studies that found that homosexual behavior is hazardous to one’s health.
For some reason, this reminds me of the "Golden Gaytime" ice cream bars we encountered during our vacation in Fiji. I can't imagine why those ice cream bars aren't popular in the US.
In this study, there isn't even a correlation. The lead researcher catalogued some health problems with homosexuals, and proposed that the underlying reason is the lack of marriage--a hypothesis that isn't even suggested by the data.
Her "methodology" seems very similar to the "methodology" of "global warming." Real phenomena are documented, real problems are discussed, but then everything is dismissed with the statement "caused by global warming."
As a scientist, I find this "methodology" extremely annoying in any context. It's not science. It's an attempt to coat a political belief with a veneer of science to give it credibility.
This shows that professors tend to know which side the bread is buttered.
What a great painting. Thank you.
Some probably is, but the silly thing is that normal marriage is weakest on love and commitment: consider the no-fault divorce laws making a joke of it.
California recently banned all gay straightening therapy. Surgical gender modification remains legal.
True, but outside of the circle of people aware of their religion I don't see anyone who cares. The only force today that stands in the way of the homosexual lobby is religion. The scientific community by and large goes into hiding to protect their tenures.
Both can be true: make less money (who would want to have a gay co-worker?) and have more disposable income due to the lack of children, as you noted. But when the researcher says that the lesser income may account for worse health care, that is possible since in our system health care is paid for by employers.
Get well soon.
They’re not neanderthals. They’re fascists.
It is possible, but there are a few other factors; e.g., gays are considered single for insurance purposes, and thus relatively cheap. I wonder if this income disparity would vanish if the data were corrected for age - gays tend to die younger than heterosexuals, and wealth increases with age.
Were there figures for heterosexual couples who lived together but who were not married? That would be the valid comparison, I would think.
“...the burden of stress...”
Just thinking about the dung-punching or strap-a-dick goings on is almost stressful...those doin’ it are likely really experiencing unhealthy stress...AIDS injectors & Ellen Degenerate types...
weird isn;t it how the left wing media and the lieks of Megyn Kelly never mention what homosexuality is about.
It;s about a man being turned on where the feces comes out of another man, bottom line is that is the only difference between normal people and homosexuals.
They then have parades saying they;re proud of it and the media tries to put a happy face on all this feces sex by saying they ;re gay, thus hyjacking a word which means to be happy, as always the left take words, positive words and twist those words to put a happy face on their sick twisted agenda.
I couldn;t careless today about what other people think, I hear anyone saying they;re married or anything about homosexuality , not gay then I speak up
Deep down the homos inner core is telling them that what they are doing is wrong. You can fool outsiders but you cannot fool the core. This is what leads to depression and suicide. Counterfeit marriage cannot change that inner you.
I was up all night the last 2 nights. After reading up, I realized I have pneumonia.
So I’ll pop in here now and then for a ping if I can. I gotta try to stay alive, first.
Who cares about the couples? It’s the kids who are the victims here.
So you’re saying that sexual perverts if “married” would be different from non-”married” sexual perverts?
If that’s what you mean, you’re wrong. The big deal is the difference between normal man/woman couples and two sexual perverts. That’s the difference, not “married” or not.
Religious individuals and organizations have been important in the fight against legalization of gay marriage, for example. But there are non-religious economic, social, and cultural arguments against gay marriage as well. In order to propagandize for gay marriage, leftist media deliberately portrays the opposition as limited to religious right "extremists."
But in every state in which the issue of gay marriage has been put on the ballot in some form or another, it has been defeated soundly. If a solid majority of voters are opposed, it intuitively means that there are many opposed who are not generally considered part of the "religious right." The movement against the homosexual agenda is not monolithic.
Thanks.
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