TheProgressivePatriot
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Care to provide some documentation of that?? Don't just post assertions like that without backing it up.
I've done my research, you can do yours. Plus, currently don't have time to go and pull it up for you, a task which you are perfectly capable of doing for yourself. I'm just passing along something I made a previous study of. You don't have to take it, you can leave it. Either is fine with me.
The Netherlands mental health survey highlights that homosexuals tend to drug addiction, suicide, and other mental health problems at significant rates far above heterosexuals, and the Dutch are the most homo friendly country on Earth. They can't keep lying about the fact it's a mental illness forever, lying about it being 'genetic', and every other dimwitted excuse and fake 'science' claims.
So, you make this assertion without bothering to include a source.?? Do you really think that you don't deserve to get called out on that. ? And please don't give me any crap about googling it because I did . It appears, sparky , that you don't really want me to see the study because it goes well beyond your simplistic, dumbed down summary of the findings. Your vested interest in conflating homosexuality with mental illness is, well, an illness.
Same-Sex Sexual Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders
Here are some excerpts
\l "Others suggested that the mental health status of homosexual people might be impaired owing to various stresses, either temporary or in specific subgroups.8 Some authors expected an upsurge in suicidal behaviors, especially in adolescence and young adulthood, as a consequence of the stresses experienced during the coming-out process.1,9,10
Although nonresponse to specific questions was negligible owing to the computer-assisted interviewing, subjects might have differed in their reporting behavior. Compared with heterosexual men, homosexual men might have been less reluctant to admit specific complaints.
.Although some demographics were statistically controlled for, the possibility remains that at least part of the observed differences are accounted for by some other uncontrolled confounding variables
Statistical analysis
To assess differences in prevalence rates, adjusted odds ratios (ORs) were computed separately for men and women. Age, level of education, residency, and not having a steady partner were controlled for in these analyses, given that these variables were positively related to prevalence rates in the total sample.22 Odds ratios were also calculated without controlling for relationship status, given that relationship status is more likely to be a consequence of rather than an antecedent to homosexual and heterosexual behavior.
heterosexual men and women. Homosexual and heterosexualResults
Characteristics of the sample
Homosexual and heterosexual respondents differed on education and relationship status (Table 1). Both homosexual men and women had a relatively higher educational level than heterosexual men and women. Both homosexual men and women less frequently reported being currently in a steady relationship than
It's apparent that this study, in no way, concludes that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between homosexuality and mental illness and substance abuse. It does, in fact raise the distinct probability that there are intervening variables that effect the statistics and that even in a tolerant society, homosexuals experience life differently