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Blaming Religion for Homosexual Suicide

954801_blog By Selwyn Duke

Can a waning phenomenon have a waxing effect? If a survey conducted on the relationship between religious messages and homosexual suicide is to be believed, the answer is yes. The survey, conducted jointly by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service, found, writes Kirsten Moulton in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that messages from U.S. religious pulpits are connected to the rising rates of suicide among gay youths….”

This conclusion isn’t surprising, given how propaganda reigns today, but it makes no sense. After all, how can an increasing rate of homosexual suicide be caused by a message that is decreasing in frequency? The fact is that if this suicide rate was lower many years ago, it was so during a time when homosexuality was in the closet and stigmas against it were the default. Today, in contrast, “coming out” is lauded, we have open homosexuals in public office and sympathetically portrayed homosexual characters in film and on TV, and books such as Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy’s Roommate are childhood fare. As for churches, I can’t say I’ve heard many fire-and-brimstone denunciations of any sin — let alone homosexual behavior — from pulpits of late. So what are the messages to which the survey respondents refer? Are they perhaps indicting the clergy for not warning their flocks of the perils of indulging certain inclinations? (I can have my fantasies, can’t I?)

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4 responses to “Blaming Religion for Homosexual Suicide”

  1. Marsha Avatar
    Marsha

    They need to read the Bible, and get away from their wordly lust and sin. Read Gensis 2:18,24 and Romans 2:26-32.
    They need to remember this is how God sees what they are doing, not man. There are two power’s in this world, good (God) and evil (devil). There are only these two. They choose to follow the devil in their walk and they need to know the devil really don’t care about them as God does. The devil is having his fun while they are loosing their soul’s to hell when they die. It is sad that they have choosen this path for their life.

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  2. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    Here is another great observation by Selwyn Duke. I would like to add:
    Such discussion has increased since that unfortunate boy at Rutgers committed suicide after his homosexual encounter was put on a live Twitter feed by his roommate. This is tragic and my heart goes out to the boy’s friends and family.
    Since then, the chattering classes have been playing this up as “gay issue”. They are wrong. This is a privacy issue in which the victim (and his acts) happened to be homosexual. What are chances that, if a heterosexual boy and girl were the ‘stars’ of the live Twitter feed, that one of them may have committed suicide? If the girl was a virgin and this was her first encounter, I would surmise that this would be likely.

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  3. opara emmanuel e Avatar
    opara emmanuel e

    the greatest thing that could befall the earth is the epidemiology of homosexuallism

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  4. Philip France Avatar
    Philip France

    Dear opera emmanuel e,
    I believe that I understand the substance of your post but such a profound statement begs further explanation. Please tell us how and why you arrive at such a conclusion.
    Perhaps you can also expound on the following of my observations:
    1. Homosexuality is a crime against nature and against nature’s God. Setting aside, for the sake of public discourse, the manifold incidences of the repudiation of homosexuality in The Torah, The Bible and The Q’ran, one must be willfully ignorant of the design of the human body and the biological imperative that we procreate. Included in this observation are recent studies citing severe health risks associated with homosexual behavior (both male and female) that are being tragically covered up. As I have asked many times, “Is there anything ‘gay” about sodomy?”.
    2. Homosexuality is a crime against society. Experts have estimated that for a culture to survive more than 25 years, a birth rate of 2.11 children must be maintained. The United States are at this precipice right NOW and much of this owes to illegal immigration. By defying their biological imperative, homosexuals are bringing about the cultural demise that effectively brings about the loss of life and liberty that allows them and affords them the liberties that are protected by the United States Constitution.
    3. Homosexuality is a crime against the homosexual individual that decides to pursue this lifestyle. A modern human being is a marvel of survival.. Beginning with the nomadic tribesman eras of early man; enduring through the Dark Ages, the plagues and pestilence, the wars, The Crusades and into the modern era with the French and American revolutions, the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq and the manifold wars and conflicts worldwide – it is a tremendous testament of survival that any extant individual lives. This is all tossed away by one’s decision to accept homosexuality as his or her “lifestyle”. The human evolution of your genealogy ends with you! It could be argued that a homosexual man could prolong his progeny by soliciting a surrogate mother and that a lesbian woman could be artificially inseminated, but this would then constitute a crime against the progeny in that the child would likely be deprived of a natural relationship with his or her biological father and/or mother and that such a child would be reared (no pun intended) in a household that is hostile to millennia of traditional family values.
    Those of you on the left that celebrate and laud homosexuals as “victims”, spare me your sophistic defenses. You are wrong. You can see it with your own eyes and you can see it within my three points of motion.
    I also wish to clarify that I do not “hate” a person because he or she is homosexual. In fact, the word “hate” has become so redundant and tiresome as to be a symbol of infantile ignorance. If I were to know you personally, I would offer my hand in peace and love to you. I would offer to share with you the joy and peace in the knowledge that I have in my God and in my Lord and Savior. I will not do this in a sanctimonious way, but in a gentle and tender manner. I want, above all, to present the wonderful works of God as an attorney, building a case and showing evidence. This knowledge is not mine but it IS eternal.

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