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Homosexual couples less healthy than married heterosexuals, study finds

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Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 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 afte