Tony Perkins: gay teens are suicidal because they know they are 'abnormal'

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Tony Perkins: gay teens are suicidal because they know they are 'abnormal'
Pam's House Blend
by: Pam Spaulding
Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 17:18:41 PM EDT


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17803/tony-perkins-gay-teens-are-suicidal-because-they-know-they-are-abnormal


There's no correlation between inacceptance of homosexuality and depression and suicide," he says.

Rather, Perkins says, there is another factor that leads kids to kill themselves.

"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."

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.