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Alternative Lifestyles:
Are They Really Harmless? Hollywood, government, politicians, academia, the mainstream media, corporate America and even the U.S. military are pushing alternative lifestyles as normal and even admirable and desirable. What they’re not telling us is the enormous toll of human suffering this brings. What is the truth?
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that lead to good health if obeyed—or sickness, disease and death if violated. The push toward acceptance of “alternative lifestyles” has been decades in the making. Beginning in the 1960s with the growth of the “new morality,” a satanic, anti-God movement has pushed in every way possible for acceptance of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning) lifestyles. These efforts have met with much success, especially in the United States, with acceptance of these lifestyles growing rapidly. A Gallup poll conducted in May 2015 showed 53 percent of Americans had come to believe that gay and lesbian lifestyles are morally acceptable. That view has since increased: A more recent poll from early 2022 indicates that acceptance of LGBTQ lifestyles has grown to 62 percent. Penalties for violating natural laws Although government and most media refuse to discuss it, it’s well The issue can be summed up simply: There are real and severe penalties documented that LBGTQ people live to be paid for violating laws of health with much higher risks of physical and mental health problems than the and morality. Though most people general population. either don’t know about or refuse to They experience higher psychoacknowledge them, natural laws exist n the culture war battles raging across the Western world, the issues of LGBTQ and transgender “rights” have shoved and shouldered their way to center stage. As is the case with the abortion issue, some states have begun to take sides. In April, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation outlawing the teaching or discussion of transgender issues with kindergarten and elementary school children up to third grade. This action shocked LGBTQ and transgender rights advocates, but helped bring into full consciousness the growing transgender debate. Yet lost in all the rhetoric and emotional heat is a related issue the mainstream media have largely chosen to ignore—the danger to physical and mental health suffered by those who practice these lifestyles.
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logical distress and higher rates of smoking and alcoholism. Lesbian and bisexual women, in particular, have been found to be prone to having multiple chronic conditions. Surveys have shown transgender people more likely to be overweight, depressed and foregoing of treatment for these and other health problems than the general population (Human Rights Campaign Foundation survey and report, July 2018). The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ advocacy and lobbying organization, confirms that one in three LGBTQ people suffers from mental illness, compared with one in five heterosexual adults—a rate more than 50 percent higher. LGBTQ populations are nearly four times more likely to suffer clinical depression, with those who are younger being most at risk. In the survey cited above, HRC reported that 40 percent of LGBTQ youth suffered from depression most of the time, as compared to just 12 percent of the general youth population. Confusion over gender and sexual identity, along with still-considerable societal rejection,
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by Mike Kelley
