Homosexuality and Teens

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Homosexuality and Teens

• Part One

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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.

• Conforming to the standard or common type
• Approximately average in any psychological trait
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• Typical, usual, average
• Functioning or occurring in a natural way
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• Conforming to a social norm
• Being approximately average
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NORMAL?
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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.
  How So?

• Statistically normal? NOT average or
  typical
• only 1-2 of population
• Biologically normal? Because animals do it?
• Also eat their young, ambush and kill
• Vomit up food for their young
• Eat their own placentas and feces
• Evolutionarily normal? (If one rejects creation)
• Does not produce offspring
• Does produce a susceptibility to disease

NORMAL?
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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.

• Some questions about what is average or typical
  but there is empirical data to decide whether a
  behavior is healthy
• Emotional health
• Psychological health
• Physical health

Healthy?
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Is homosexuality healthy emotionally?

• Studies Reveal
• Only 12 of h. affairs last 5 years or more
• Among 100 couples 0 had been monogamous
• Average h. has 20-106 partners per year
• 43 admit to 500 or more in a lifetime
• 79 say half their partners are total strangers
• 50 of suicides can be attributed to h.
• 50 of hotline reports of queer bashing
  involved domestic violence, i.e. h. beating up h.
• 33 h. ADMIT to having sex with minors and commit
  more than 33 of all child molestations

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Is homosexuality healthy psychologically?

• Studies Reveal
• 75 of 2ooo lesbians pursued counseling for long
  term depression or sadness
• H. are 25xs more likely to commit suicide
• 25-33 are alcoholics
• 30,000 sexually abused children in L.A. were
  victims of h., Capt. William Riddle, L.A. Police
• 37 of h. engage in SM, accounting for many
  accidental deaths
• 73 of Psychiatrists say h. are less happy
• 70 of above state NOT due to social
  stigmatization

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Is homosexuality healthy physically?

• Studies Reveal while making up 1-2 of pop.
• H. account for half of the murders in large
  cities
• 100xs more likely to be murdered
• Many h. disconnect knowledge and lifestyle
  warnings from their behavior
• 78 are affected with STDs
• Account for bulk of syphilis, gonorrhea, hep. B,
  gay bowel syndrome, intestinal parasites
• Median death age for gay man is 42, vs. 75 norm
• Median death age for lesbian is 45, vs. 79 norm
• Die at rate of 534xs higher than similar age
  heter.

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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.
• Lie 2 If youre attracted to someone of the
  same sex, that means youre gay or lesbian.

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If youre attracted to someone of the same sex,
that means youre gay or lesbian. Not so.

• It CAN mean that there are God-given needs for
  love and attention that were supposed to be met
  earlier in life that were sidetracked by
• Unusual sexual experience
• Homosexual experience
• Family abnormality
• Cultural influences

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If youre attracted to someone of the same sex,
that means youre gay or lesbian. Not so.

• It IS a normal part of adolescent emotional
  transition from child to adult, to be attracted
  to others of the same sex.
• It is emotional, non-sexual, involuntary, SSA
• It is how one learns to form deep adult
  relationships
• Gender insecurity sometimes results from
• A lack of affirmation by parents and/or peers
• Feeling out of place / led by name calling,
  bullying
• Feeling out of place / wanting to belong to a
  group
• Girls start with friendships that become needy

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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.
• Lie 2 If youre attracted to someone of the
  same sex, that means youre gay or lesbian.
• Lie 3 Embrace and celebrate your gay
  identity, because gay life is cool.

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Embrace and celebrate your gay identity, because
gay life is cool. ?????????

• Incredibly hurtful psychologically
• Increased drug/alcohol use, violence, suicide,
  child abuse
• Incredibly hurtful emotionally
• Unhappiness, multiple partners, high domestic
  abuse
• Incredible susceptibility to disease death
• HIV, STDs, hepatitus, etc., etc., ad nauseum
• Incredibly immature to make decisions affecting
  the rest of your life based in adolescent
  feelings and misunderstanding

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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today

• First, Homosexuality is normal and healthy.
• Lie 2 If youre attracted to someone of the
  same sex, that means youre gay or lesbian.
• Lie 3 Embrace and celebrate your gay
  identity, because gay life is cool.
• Lie 4 Since you were born that way, you cant
  change.

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What causes one to live the homosexual lifestyle?
Since you were born that way, you cant change.
???????? Says Who?

• Three answers seem possible
• Homosexual behavior is a result of choice,
  influence, and/or experiences
• Homosexual behavior is symptomatic of arrested
  development as a consequence of trauma or poor
  familial relations
• Homosexual behavior is genetic and/or hormonal as
  much as skin or hair color

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The fact that homosexual behavior is a learned
behavior is supported by the evidence

• No biologic or genetic difference has been found
  between homosexuals and heterosexuals
• Two large studies (almost 3,000 ind.) said that
  h.s tend to believe their sexual
  desires/practices are learned, (pre-pc)
• Many homosexuals were approached when young
• Early sexual experiences influences adult
  behavior
• Sexual conduct is influenced by cultural factors,
  including religious conviction, teachers,
  counselors, and association
• Many do change their sexual preferences, 6 of 7
  regularly!
• There are many, many ex-homosexuals (est, 2 of
  pop.)
• - Dr. Paul Cameron, Ph.D, Family Research
  Institute

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Four Lies Familiar to Teens Today
How to Deal with Teens and Homosexuality

• Lie 1 Homosexuality is normal and healthy.
• Lie 2 If youre attracted to someone of the
  same sex, that means youre gay or lesbian.
• Lie 3 Embrace and celebrate your gay identity,
  because gay life is cool.
• Lie 4 Since you were born that way, you cant
  change.

• Dont address head on. People discover this,
  they usually dont choose. Ask questions that
  search for the underlying problems.
• Dont slap labels on. SSA is natural and labels
  bully.
• Be compassionate and a safe place to express.
• Be respectful. Appreciate the struggle to not be
  fake may be laid in misunderstanding.

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• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God, (Romans 323 ESV)
• The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as
  some count slowness, but is patient toward you,
  not wishing that any should perish, but that all
  should reach repentance. (2 Peter 39
  ESV)

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• Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived
  neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom
  of God. And such were some of you. But you were
  washed, you were sanctified, you were justified
  in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the
  Spirit of our God.
  (1 Corinthians 69-11
  ESV)
• John 316