| | "... early self-labeling as [[homosexuality|homosexual]] or [[bisexual]] is one of the top three risk factors for homosexual teen [[suicide]] attempts. The risk of suicide decreases by 20% for each year that a young person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling."<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/narthresponse.html NARTH's Response to "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth"]</ref> | | "... early self-labeling as [[homosexuality|homosexual]] or [[bisexual]] is one of the top three risk factors for homosexual teen [[suicide]] attempts. The risk of suicide decreases by 20% for each year that a young person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling."<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/narthresponse.html NARTH's Response to "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth"]</ref> |
| − | [[Gay activism|Homosexual activists]] and [[Psychological manipulation|manipulators]], like [[Bill Harrison]], executive director of LGBTI [[pressure group]] 'Richmond Gay Community Foundation', often advance an argument that learning about scientific research showing that a person can quit [[ABC_Theory_of_Emotion#Homosexual_Lifestyle|sodomical lifestyle]], for example as [[Michael Glatze]] did, can cause ''“many people to commit suicide”'' hence these people engaging in [[immoral]] patterns of behavior should not be challenged with such information.<ref name="Billboard2014">{{cite web |title= Gay Rights Activists Outraged Over Billboard’s Message About Homosexuality and Genetics |author=Billy Hallowell |publisher=The Blaze (originally WVUE-TV) |date=11 Dec 2014 |url=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/11/nobody-is-born-gay-activists-outraged-by-billboards-message-about-homosexuality-and-genetics/ |quote=“Identical twins have the same genes or DNA. They are nurtured in equal prenatal conditions. If homosexuality is caused by genetics or prenatal conditions and one twin is gay, the co-twin should also be gay,” she said, according to WVUE-TV. “Because identical twins are always genetically identical, homosexuality cannot be genetically dictated. No one is born gay.” |accessdate=30 Jan 2016}}</ref> To suggest that suicide prevention requires affirming a person's behavior or behavioral tendencies is however simply foolish. Criminal behavior, for example, often leads to suicidal thoughts, but no one suggest that we must affirm criminal tendences to stop suicide.<ref name="Lively2009">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=[[Scott Lively]] |publisher=Veritas Aeterna Press |place=Springfield, MA |year=2009 |edition=1 (Version 1.1)|pages=173, 178 |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow}}</ref> | + | [[Gay activism|Homosexual activists]] and [[Psychological manipulation|manipulators]], like [[Bill Harrison]], executive director of LGBTI [[pressure group]] 'Richmond Gay Community Foundation', often advance an argument that learning about scientific research showing that a person can quit [[ABC Theory of Emotion#Homosexual Lifestyle|sodomical lifestyle]], for example as [[Michael Glatze]] did, can cause ''“many people to commit suicide”'' hence these people engaging in [[immoral]] patterns of behavior should not be challenged with such information.<ref name="Billboard2014">{{cite web |title= Gay Rights Activists Outraged Over Billboard’s Message About Homosexuality and Genetics |author=Billy Hallowell |publisher=The Blaze (originally WVUE-TV) |date=11 Dec 2014 |url=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/11/nobody-is-born-gay-activists-outraged-by-billboards-message-about-homosexuality-and-genetics/ |quote=“Identical twins have the same genes or DNA. They are nurtured in equal prenatal conditions. If homosexuality is caused by genetics or prenatal conditions and one twin is gay, the co-twin should also be gay,” she said, according to WVUE-TV. “Because identical twins are always genetically identical, homosexuality cannot be genetically dictated. No one is born gay.” |accessdate=30 Jan 2016}}</ref> To suggest that suicide prevention requires affirming a person's behavior or behavioral tendencies is however simply foolish. Criminal behavior, for example, often leads to suicidal thoughts, but no one suggest that we must affirm criminal tendences to stop suicide.<ref name="Lively2009">{{cite book |title=Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the "Gay" Agenda |author=[[Scott Lively]] |publisher=Veritas Aeterna Press |place=Springfield, MA |year=2009 |edition=1 (Version 1.1)|pages=173, 178 |url=http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow}}</ref> |