Gay Teen Suicide
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Recently we've been hearing about the suicides of several “gay” teens and I don't know about you but I am starting to feel very uncomfortable with the daily accounting of all the gay teens that have been bullied or are being bullied. This is not to say that I or my Christian friends think that anyone should be bullied at all. However, I am sensing that the liberal left wing is using it's journalistic power for a much more nefarious purpose. Which is, to be frank, to shut the mouths of anyone who would dare say that homosexuality is wrong, a sin, or a chosen lifestyle. It is not much of a leap from “how awful that these gay teens are committing suicide” to YOU are responsible for the deaths of gay teens because of your beliefs. We are walking a very thin line.
First of all, let's get the facts straight, approximately ¼ of a million teens attempt suicide every year, out of that quarter million, approximately 5,000 succeed. Just this morning the news reported that 2 gay teens killed themselves last month, well do the math...that means that approximately 398 non-gay teens also killed themselves. Who cares about them? Why are the majority of other teens who are harassed, bullied and suffering ignored as inconsequential? Furthermore, suicide is the third cause of death for teens, accidents are the first and homicide second.
While I am appalled at the numbers of teens who kill themselves I cannot help but think that this tragedy is being exploited by those who would foist the gay agenda upon the rest of society. Instead of recommending that schools are made safer for all teens instead the recommendation is for “greater understanding” and more acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle for teens as well as adults. The solution to teen suicide is not acceptance of a lifestyle that will cause even more anguish it is the return of the Judeo-Christian worldview that all people are made in the image of God, accountable to God and have a purpose within that relationship.
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I believe they are using this tragedy to censor those who do not support the gay lifestyle.
Thank you Brie, you are very right.
Now just another comment. Living in Communistic county I noticed that communists placed all homosexuals to jail.
Characteristic of communism is that they use minority (as homosexuals...) until they need them. The opening eyes comes.
Also communists by "heart" later were also kicked out.
Devil rewarding his people with "death".
Someone had to say it!
I think you've stated it perfectly Brie. The gay lifestyle is a thought process that is chosen and there is no scientific data to prove otherwise. By highlighting the few who committed suicide for this reason, they devalue the significance of all the other young adults who have taken their lives in the same time span. To take ones own life is a final act of hopelessness. Christ told us we are saved by hope. All of these young people who are contemplating suicide, gay or otherwise, need strong religious people to intervene in their lives and give them a spiritual reason to have hope, because whatever it is they are grasping onto in the world, is not enough to give them content and joyful hearts. Peace.
So very true A M Werner, thanks for writing.
The harsh reality is that the problem is teen suicide, and the reason are many, and not just being gay . The year I taught Jr. high(one year was enough of that age!)I realized just how despondent young people can become, and how quickly.There was the girl that wanted to kill herself because her boyfriend broke up with her, another was suicidal because her dad and stepmom got custody of her instead of her mom, and another because she was obese and teased. Thank you for writing about this.
It is most definitely a problem and I have written about the issue before, I just don't think narrowing the problem to only gay teens when all teens are in danger ..helps the situation.
This is an eye opener. I remember hearing about the Rutgers student that was video taped by his room mate and a female accomplice. This was indeed tragic. The student was so distraught he jumped off a bridge to his death. The coverage of this story was focused on his gay lifestyle and tolerance toward that lifestyle was the primary goal. I didn't make that connection. I was sucked into thinking that there should be more tolerance and I still hold that view, but I missed the agenda of those covering the story. I wonder how different the coverage would have been had the student been harrassed because he was obese or hetero sexual and videotaped in a sexual act while he was alone. Not one for conspiracy theory, but now as I think of it, there does seem to be an agenda that is not too hidden anymore, to get the majority to give blessing to something that goes against what our core values represent.
Great job Brie!
I'm glad I could help open your eyes a little. Thanks for commenting fred.
Hmmm...I agree that most news media outlets, from CNN to Foxnews, tend to sensationalize their stories to get attention.
But IMHO to say:
"However, I am sensing that the liberal left wing is using it's journalistic power for a much more nefarious purpose."
is rather one-sided.
Both sides, left or right wing, use the media to incite their own.
Until this country holds BOTH SIDES responsible for their biased presentation of the news, nothing will change.
If you would read some of my other articles you would know that I call to task both sides. However, in this instance it is the left wing that is pulling the shades.
Brie: Sensationalism is what sell papers, and grows followers. Sensationalism is what catches the public's attention. If it were simply a teen, it probably wouldn't matter to anyone, but stick the word "Gay" out there and the public, especially the Gay Rights activists will jump all over what ever it happens to be.
I detest the news. I detest journalism in general, and I definitely detest those journalists who apply sensationalism to their reporting of the news. What's worse is they claim they are doing it because "The Public Has The Right To Know" Quite frankly I don't think the public even give a damn, I doubt the public cares. But sensationalism sells papers and books and tv time and on and on and on!
I watch people picking up the daily news papers at the corner boxes, and I think to myself how stupid these people must be for they are reading stories about what happened a day or even days past, and paying to do so.
Brother Dave.
I hate them too.
brie i like your hubs almost all of them but not this hub
my brother is gay since he was a small boy and is now a teen.that christains care about teen suicide gives him hope and he lives another day. all HOPE is from Jesus.
Xavier Angel, I have just pointed out the facts regarding the reporting of Gay Teen Suicide, I'm sorry you don't like it.
I don't believe that God "makes" people gay, it is a choice like any other and it is a sin and to be avoided like any other.
That's right God created us with free will he gave us instruction on how we should live through his inspired word the BIBLE, but we make choices how we live our lives wether we will be friends of God's and live the way he designed us or be his enemy and face the consequences of our actions. as brought out in James 1:14, 15: “Each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.” God doesn't mix words sin brings death that is further backed by the following scriptures, 2Cor 12:21 were it states:
21 Perhaps, when I come again, my God might humiliate me among YOU, and I might mourn over many of those who formerly sinned but have not repented over their uncleanness and fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced. And at James 4:17 it states: Therefore, if one knows how to do what is right and yet does not do it, it is a sin for him.
So God's view of all forms of sexual immorality Adultry,homosexaulity, beastality, and anything else outside of legal marriage has not changed. and this final scripture I leave you with bares this out; Heb 10:26-29 it states: 26. For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, 27 but [there is] a certain fearful expectation of judgment and [there is] a fiery jealousy that is going to consume those in opposition. For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, 28 Any man that has disregarded the law of Moses dies without compassion, upon the testimony of two or three. 29 Of how much more severe a punishment, do YOU think, will the man be counted worthy who has trampled upon the Son of God and who has esteemed as of ordinary value the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has outraged the spirit of undeserved kindness with contempt? I've also posted more info below so you can research thoroughly using the only authority on sexual immorality that is God's own word the BIBLE.
.Illicit sex relations outside of Scriptural marriage. The Hebrew verb za·nah? and its related forms convey the idea of harlotry, immoral intercourse, fornication, or prostitution. (Ge 38:24; Ex 34:16; Ho 1:2; Le 19:29) The Greek word translated “fornication” is por·nei?a. Regarding the meanings of por·nei?a, B. F. Westcott in his book Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1906, p. 76) says: “This is a general term for all unlawful intercourse, (I) adultery: Hos. ii. 2, 4 (LXX.); Matt. v. 32; xix. 9; (2) unlawful marriage, I Cor. v. I; (3) fornication, the common sense as here [Eph 5:3].” Bauer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (revised by F. W. Gingrich and F. Danker, 1979, p. 693) defines por·nei?a as “prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.” Porneia is understood to involve the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human; also there must have been two or more parties (including another consenting human or a beast), whether of the same sex or the opposite sex. (Jude 7) The unlawful act of a rapist is fornication, but, of course, that does not make the person who is forcibly raped also a fornicator.
When God performed the first human marriage he said: “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.” (Ge 2:24) Here the standard set for man and woman was monogamy, and promiscuous sex relationship was ruled out. Also, no divorce and remarriage to another was anticipated
Jaron...all true...BUT THANKS BE TO GOD FOR THE ATONEMENT OF HIS SON WHICH PROVIDES MERCY TO ALL THOSE WHO WILL ASK!
...Well, the reason it's making headlines is because they are being bullied because they are gay.
They are being discriminated against at schools, in their communities, in their CHURCHES and even in their own homes.
They are not reporting the straight ones because... straight people don't kill themselves because society finds them "immoral" and living a "sinful lifestyle."
There is NO gay agenda.
Gay rights activists are simply trying to make as many people aware of the ignorance of people... like you.
When you say stuff like "it is a sin," "you're going to hell"
How the hell do you think that makes a kid feel?
Seriously?
"I" didn't say that, God said it and if that bothered them so much then maybe they should turn to God and away from sin so that they could be transformed like anyone else. There is a "Gay Agenda" and that agenda is to try and make everyone believe that being gay is good and normal and that it is something that cannot be helped and that is not true. I am not saying that anyone should be bullied because that is a sin as well. All people should be loved with the love of God but that does NOT mean that sin is to be called non-sin. The sin itself is the reason for the depression and insanity.
I agree that the media is making gay teens seem more important, but as a gay teen I understand that life is made so much harder by bullying, violence and being tormented by people because of your sexuality, its so sad that thousands of teenagers commit suicide but homosexual teens generally get victimised more often than heterosexual teens and that's a fact, this is what leads to the gay suicides on the news and the news is merely raising awareness of the torture that gay teenagers are put through.
Interesting hub,which is well shared.
Brie, my sentiments exactly.
Well done.
Voted UP and useful.
Thanks Brenda, I get a lot of flack on this subject.
As an American citizen and an advocate for individual rights, I've read your hub and I don't get your problem, aside from you having a religious bias. You nicely demonstrated that you're willing to let your religious bias, dictate how other people are to live their life. I get you have a right to free speech and I'm not taking that right away from you. However, much of my problem with your hub is based on character of the individual and since I base my comment on the character of the individual, I find your hub lacking in understanding.
The tact you took to write this piece shouldn't even be looked at, but should simply show the bias of media. The fact that you bring your religious beliefs into the mix is what makes the situation even worse, instead of writing something positive, to bring unity to people.
You get a lot of flack on this subject, because you bring in on yourself. If those who had a religious belief, kept their religious beliefs in their own life, instead of telling other people how to live, then you wouldn't see the media make a big deal out of the fact that people are gay or lesbian.
The individual character of a person is what should be measured and it should be objectively measured, instead of subjectively based on bias. Writing articles like this generates the conflict, you apparently seek out. A person who seeks out conflict, is conflicted to begin with. And, if you attempt to claim that I am causing conflict with my comment, I would like you to learn to see past yourself, on to a bigger picture, if you can. I am only pointing out your actions. If it brings you more conflict? Then it's you who has the bigger issues(if I have to explain that to you, then seek help).
This hub does more damage than good and speaks volume about your own individual character than it does about media's ability to divide and conquer.
Your argument is not valid. Avoiding conflict in order to hold together unity at the expense of what is right is never right or good or to be pursued. I do not seek conflict as a goal...as a goal I seek truth and love..if unity is destroyed because of that...so be it!
This issue of teen suicide and bullying in schools is huge. I'm not sure if you've missed that coverage in the news, academic papers, and so forth, or what. But, it's definitely out there.
The stories that you see recently exist because people are just now recognizing how much bullying occurs based on sexual preference (or PERCEIVED homosexuality). Just as we've recently seen more stories about crimes of hate against the homeless and so forth. It's not an attempt to take away from the other, broader problem.
You also need to look at more than raw numbers. The gay population is obviously a small percentage of the total population of teens. (Thus, far fewer die this way each day) A real analysis may show that it's more likely to happen to gays proportionally speaking. I don't know.
I don't think we have to be so defensive as to be offended by reporting of a fact (a gay teens death) because the attention isn't being directed toward ourselves (or our "group"---straight teens in this case). Focused attention is common for groups that tend to have the greatest risk factors.
Recognizing risk factors, providing education, and doing what ever prevention we can is the purpose behind it all. It's not to force you to be less judgemental or more caring. That's really up to the individual.
I've never, ever heard a gay person complain about reporting of deaths among heterosexual teens and the attention given to it....and... I wish I could still say I had never heard the reverse. I think if your issue is you want more attention paid to heterosexual teen suicide and bullying, advocate for it loudly. But why blame homeosexuals and the fact they are getting a little press about a problem?
Because I think that they are using the issue for ulterior motives.
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rachellrobinson Level 4 Commenter 19 months ago
You are right, in some instances it does seem like the media is making one life more valuable than the next. Whenever someone is killed or kills themselves it is a tradgedy. However if straight teens are commiting suicide at the same rate or a higher rate the homosexual teens shouldn't this be noted by the media. (Which is pretty much what you said, I am just agreeing with you)