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Tony Perkins: Gay Teens Resort to "Depression or Suicide" Because They Know They're "Abnormal"
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins recently gave an unsympathetic diagnosis for the recent surge in teen suicides caused anti-gay bullying: they resort to extreme measures because they're battling with the internal understanding that homosexuality is, in fact, "abnormal."
Speaking with NPR for a piece about how religious movements fit into the anti-gay bullying equation, Perkins's analysis of the situation appeared the least forgiving.
Perkins told NPR that gay rights groups were exploiting the concern over anti-LGBT bigotry to build momentum for their movement, an argument that he has made before.
"There's no correlation between inacceptance of homosexuality and depression and suicide," Perkins told NPR.
Here's how Perkins explained the issue:
"These young people who identify as gay or lesbian, we know from the social science that they have a higher propensity to depression or suicide because of that internal conflict," he says.
Homosexuality is "abnormal," he says, and kids know it, which leads them to despair. That's why he wants to confront gay activism in public schools. For example, his group supports the Day of Truth, when Christian high-schoolers make their case that homosexuality is a sin.
Tony Perkins was given a platform to make a similarly uncompassionate polemic in the Washington Post earlier this month, on National Coming Out Day, no less. The paper later explained, over Twitter, that the editorial was their attempt to "cover both sides" of the debate.
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These teens killed themselves, which is horrible enough, but how DARE you deny it has nothing to do with your bigotry and hatred.
I can't find words to fully describe how upsetting it is that this asshole, along with several other people on the far right (like the article posted here earlier about that guy on the school board), have absolutely NO human decency left and are saying such awful things in the face of a tragic epidemic.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins recently gave an unsympathetic diagnosis for the recent surge in teen suicides caused anti-gay bullying: they resort to extreme measures because they're battling with the internal understanding that homosexuality is, in fact, "abnormal."
Speaking with NPR for a piece about how religious movements fit into the anti-gay bullying equation, Perkins's analysis of the situation appeared the least forgiving.
Perkins told NPR that gay rights groups were exploiting the concern over anti-LGBT bigotry to build momentum for their movement, an argument that he has made before.
"There's no correlation between inacceptance of homosexuality and depression and suicide," Perkins told NPR.
Here's how Perkins explained the issue:
"These young people who identify as gay or lesbian, we know from the social science that they have a higher propensity to depression or suicide because of that internal conflict," he says.
Homosexuality is "abnormal," he says, and kids know it, which leads them to despair. That's why he wants to confront gay activism in public schools. For example, his group supports the Day of Truth, when Christian high-schoolers make their case that homosexuality is a sin.
Tony Perkins was given a platform to make a similarly uncompassionate polemic in the Washington Post earlier this month, on National Coming Out Day, no less. The paper later explained, over Twitter, that the editorial was their attempt to "cover both sides" of the debate.
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These teens killed themselves, which is horrible enough, but how DARE you deny it has nothing to do with your bigotry and hatred.
I can't find words to fully describe how upsetting it is that this asshole, along with several other people on the far right (like the article posted here earlier about that guy on the school board), have absolutely NO human decency left and are saying such awful things in the face of a tragic epidemic.