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LGBT Distress: Not the Result of ‘Homophobia’

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August 19, 2015

by Michael Brown

In the late 1980s, gay activists laid out one of their major strategies for changing public opinion about homosexuality, calling for the “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”

Today, Americans have believed that propaganda beyond all reasonable expectation. We have been duped and brainwashed, plain and simple. That’s why the sixth principle in my new book, “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” is “Keep Propagating the Truth Until the Lies Are Dispelled.”

One of the lies I address is the claim that gay suffering is primarily due to homophobia.

To be sure, I don’t dispute for a moment that societal and family rejection has caused a great deal of gay suffering, including some self-destructive behavior. Common sense would tell you that this is so, and I do not minimize the tragic consequences of anti-homosexual hatred, especially among family members.

But it is also indisputable that societal acceptance of homosexuality does not greatly diminish these self-destructive behaviors, which have remained disproportionately high in countries and cities that have long embraced gay culture.

The more our society accepts and even celebrates homosexuality (and bisexuality and transgenderism), the harder it will be to blame the higher incidences of depression, suicide, substance abuse and STDs in the LGBT community on alleged societal homophobia.

As noted by a team of conservative researchers:

“The usual hypothesis is that societal discrimination against homosexuals is solely or primarily responsible for the development of this pathology. However, specific attempts to confirm this societal discrimination hypothesis have been unsuccessful, and the alternative possibility – that these conditions may somehow be related to the psychological structure of a homosexual orientation or consequences of a homosexual lifestyle – has not been disconfirmed. Indeed, several cross-cultural studies suggest that this higher rate of psychological disturbance is in fact independent of a culture’s tolerance of – or hostility toward – homosexual behavior.”

A recent CDC study found a higher percentage of substance…

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