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More than half of LGBT people have suffered depression in the past year, according to a major new study. A report by LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) charity Stonewall found 52 percent had experienced depression and 61 percent anxiety . Why? The standard rejection argument? Stonewall’s “health report”, a survey of 5,000 LGBT people, found one in eight people aged between 18 and 24 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year. For trans people, it also found 46 percent had thought about taking their own life. Stonewall chief executive Ruth Hunt said the report had uncovered “worryingly high rates of poor mental health experienced by LGBT people in Britain today”. Gospel Health spoke person Lydia Gron, "LGBT leaders who read this study will point to homosexual exclusion barrier, personal rejections etc rather than looking at their own sinful disordered lives. Harsh, maybe, truthful yes. The Netherlands which is very gay-friendly for decades still r

Gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals reported more health problems than straight men and women, in a large U.S. survey. For the first time since its launch in 1957, the National Health Interview Survey in 2013 and 2014 included a question about sexual orientation. With nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian, gay and bisexual adults "were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, potentially due to the stressors that (they) experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination," researchers wrote online June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Overall, 67,150 survey respondents were heterosexual, 525 lesbian, 624 gay and 515 bisexual. The average age was about 47. Gilbert Gonzales of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues found that compared to heterosexual women, lesbians were 91 percent more likely to report poor or fair health. Lesbians

West Australian Labor Senator Joe Bullock has announced he is quitting politics over his party's illogical position on homosexual marriage. Senator Bullock is to be commended for his stand and strong conscience. Australia salutes this brave man who refuses to bow the new homosexual moral crusade He made the announcement in the Senate on Tuesday night, saying he had long been against homosexual marriage and could not remain a Labor parliamentarian, given that the party will remove its members' ability to vote with their conscience on the issue in 2019. Labor will force your conscience due to lesbian Penny Wong. "Instinctively I know if your job requires you to do [that] which you believe to be wrong, there's only one course of action: resign," he said. "As a member of the party, I'm free to disagree with the party policy, to lobby for change, and to encourage people to join the party with a view to achieving that end." However, he said, as a m

Georgetown University ’s LGBTQ Resource Center and GU Pride are currently holding “OUTober,” an ongoing event celebrating “LGBTQ History Month,” according to  The Hoya . This year’s OUTober featured a “coming out day” and a lecture from a transgender activist. According to the  campaign description , this year’s theme for OUTober is “OUT FOR.” The description states that the theme “echoes Georgetown’s Jesuit values, highlighting the commitment and responsibility of Georgetown students as ‘men and women for others.’”  However, the event description makes no mention of Catholic teaching on human sexuality . The  Catechism of the Catholic Church  states that men and women with homosexual tendencies must be treated with “respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” but that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and that “[h]omosexual persons are called to chastity.” Also, a  Vatican statement  entitled “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Bet