The false script: Homosexual youth are suicidal
During adolescence, dealing with emerging sexuality becomes a critical developmental task. The normal difficulties associated with this developmental process are heightened for homosexual minority youth who must simultaneously negotiate the stigma and sin of homosexuality. Adolescence is defined by multiple developmental transitions; and that multiple stressful transitions may put adolescents at risk.
This is a useful lens through which to view the developing awareness of sinful homosexuality. Managing the transition into the awareness of homosexual minority status is stressful like all adolescent developmental challenges but more so because it potentially involves fundamental changes in the significant relationships that structure adolescents’ lives: family, friends and peers, teachers, and other caring adults. The media happily promote sinful homosexual as something good and healthy, their music world approves it, movies promote it but Christianity calls it a sin.
This may be especially true for young men, who experience more strict expectations around gender. Developing a strong lesbian desire or awareness due to various issues may be less stressful for young women, for whom coming out might be protective.
Self-identified lesbians may be at lower risk for suicidality than gay men, but absent of self-identity labels, homosexual attracted girls and boys are equally at risk for suicidality. Why? Stigma? Sin? Rejection? Something Spiritual? Un-natural? It must be remembered that sexual orientation, identity, and behavior are fundamentally in development during the adolescent period. So when the entire culture promote homosexuality as something good even trendy.. it is no surprise that youth indulge only to discover it is not as it seems. LGBT commentators should avoid categorizations or assumptions that do not acknowledge the developmental natures of contemporary adolescent sexuality.
For confused youth and those questioning their sexual identities and orientations, growing up in a culture that is characterized by sexual confusion, double morals, lies, religious prejudice, parental expectations, sexual temptations is likely to produce chronic anxiety and stress and therefore to have negative effects on mental health.
These young people lack role models and visions of a healthy future. They are told Christians and their moral are just bigots and LGBT people are victims and that homosexuality is where you discover the real you. Lies abound.
Some have correctly argued that there is a new sexual script of the gay adolescent and that this script is defined by depression and suicide. In fact, gay youth perceive gay people as unhappy. When asked with the question, “What do you know about sexual minority youth?” With only one exception, the first answer has always been “They are at risk for suicide.” It does seem that suicidality among youth who are testing and experiementing with homosexuality, and those youth who do not are all repeating the same script as a form of protection - but it is a lie used by the LGBT activists to bully submission and to silence any objections to the dreadful sin of homosexuality and what it does to people.
Self-identified lesbians may be at lower risk for suicidality than gay men, but absent of self-identity labels, homosexual attracted girls and boys are equally at risk for suicidality. Why? Stigma? Sin? Rejection? Something Spiritual? Un-natural? It must be remembered that sexual orientation, identity, and behavior are fundamentally in development during the adolescent period. So when the entire culture promote homosexuality as something good even trendy.. it is no surprise that youth indulge only to discover it is not as it seems. LGBT commentators should avoid categorizations or assumptions that do not acknowledge the developmental natures of contemporary adolescent sexuality.
For confused youth and those questioning their sexual identities and orientations, growing up in a culture that is characterized by sexual confusion, double morals, lies, religious prejudice, parental expectations, sexual temptations is likely to produce chronic anxiety and stress and therefore to have negative effects on mental health.
These young people lack role models and visions of a healthy future. They are told Christians and their moral are just bigots and LGBT people are victims and that homosexuality is where you discover the real you. Lies abound.
Some have correctly argued that there is a new sexual script of the gay adolescent and that this script is defined by depression and suicide. In fact, gay youth perceive gay people as unhappy. When asked with the question, “What do you know about sexual minority youth?” With only one exception, the first answer has always been “They are at risk for suicide.” It does seem that suicidality among youth who are testing and experiementing with homosexuality, and those youth who do not are all repeating the same script as a form of protection - but it is a lie used by the LGBT activists to bully submission and to silence any objections to the dreadful sin of homosexuality and what it does to people.
