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I'm just pointing out all the brainwashed gays who are out there who can't decide if they want to be a fundamentalist old-fashioned uptight conservative or a party animal drunkard drug addict sex addict: that's the real world paradigm for some people: it's a sickening world. There is no middle ground with anyone. I'm just saying what I've seen. It's pitiful. And I can see why gays get a bad reputation.
When a city is socially conservative, it puts pressure on people to act a certain way. There's less room for individual expression. This is especially hard on teenagers, so it's no surprise to find out that suicide rates among teens are higher in conservative areas.
I can see some truth to this matter. In my opinion only the more conservative the town you live in, the less understanding you will get, people living in that immediate area. Usually quite religious, have their own views on certain subject matters, and you will not change them one iota.
Usually the schools that do not show support for gay students, does have a percentage of attempted suicides, not only that, some children or teenagers are bullied, and feel they have no place to go. The teens and children who are depressed, with no where to turn, will attempt or succeed at suicide. Some very conservative religious areas, are hard for teens to live in, when you have no place to go and no one to turn to, what do you do where do you go. You get depressed, and therfore, feeling you are alone, you attemt suicide. I do see some truth in this, i may be wrong, but this is only my thought.
Norway, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, and Greece...all had lower suicide rates than the US.
Not to mention that Sweden was .2 people suicides higher than the US (20 vs. 19.8).
Finland, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Japan, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, plus many other homophobic European nations are driving people (gay and strait) to suicide. (see study linking heterosexual suicide rate to gay intolerance)
I guess the heavy fines in Canada, arrests in the UK and incarceration in Sweden are not enough to protect gays (and straights) from open criticism of homosexuality.
Guess we'll have to up the ante.
"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
Maybe the homosexuals on the board will chime in......but from my perspective....a teen who is gay probably doesn't know that they're gay and will pursue a gay lifestyle until about 13 years old. Maybe even older than that. By my math, that's 5 years (max) of whatever persecution they perceive to be receiving. Why on earth would a person so young choose to kill themselves when in a few short years they can fly the coop?
Weak minded is the only thing that seems to make sense to me. Maybe homosexuals are genetically inclined to be weak-minded. Someone should study this.
Maybe the homosexuals on the board will chime in......but from my perspective....a teen who is gay probably doesn't know that they're gay and will pursue a gay lifestyle until about 13 years old.
You have to be 13 to be considered a teen, your post doesn't make a whole lof of sense, but what else is new.
Finland, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Japan, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden...
I didn't bother to read all the way down to #29.
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