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Homosexual couples less healthy than married heterosexuals, study finds
LifeSiteNews ^ | Thu Feb 28, 2013 20:51 EST | Johanna Dasteel

Posted on 02/28/2013 7:18:43 PM PST by annalex

LANSING, MI, February 28, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that gay and lesbian couples are less likely to be healthy than heterosexual couples, a finding that confirms traditional claims that homosexuality is an unhealthy lifestyle.

This study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found the starkest of contrasts when it narrowed its focus to homosexual couples living together as contrasted with married heterosexual couples.

It found that same-sex cohabiting men were 61 percent more likely to report “poor or fair health” than an equitable number of men reporting from heterosexual marriages. Same-sex cohabitating women were 46 percent more likely to report the same when compared to heterosexual married women.

Indeed, black women in a lesbian relationship were likely to report being less healthy than single, divorced, and widowed black women.

These results held after controlling the socioeconomic status of the 1,659 same-sex couples reporting.

The study confired the mounting evidence gathered through decades of studies that homosexuals are living an unhealthy and risky lifestyle.

The only epidemiological study ever done on the subject shows gay men die an average of 20 years younger than straight men – and that homosexual men have the same life expectancy all men had in 1871. The findings, published in Canada's International Journal of Epidemiology in 1997, were confirmed by a 2005 American study conducted by Dr. Paul Cameron.

Studies have consistently found that homosexuals have higher levels of depression,suicide, and alcohol or substance abuse than heterosexuals. They also tend to make less money than their heterosexual counterparts, which may account for some health care discrepancies.

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The professor who led the newest health-related research, Dr. Hui Liu of Michigan State University, chalked up the discrepancy to the fact that homosexuals cannot marry, as well as the burden of stress and discrimination.

Liu told the press, “If marriage can promote health, it is reasonable for us to expect that if same-sex couples had the advantage of legalized marriage, their health may be boosted."

Liu proceeded to suggest that filing joint tax returns may also boost health of same-sex couples, should they be permitted to “marry.”

The study did not specifically address how these assertions were supported from the data.

In the end, Liu’s study reinforced, rather than challenged, previous studies that found that homosexual behavior is hazardous to one’s health.  


TOPICS: General Discusssion; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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To: jmacusa
Gee, and I thought the gay lifestyle was ;'' Gay'' as in ,''happy'' fun''. Try as the Sodomites do there is no substitute for the law God laid down. Marriage is man and woman .

For some reason, this reminds me of the "Golden Gaytime" ice cream bars we encountered during our vacation in Fiji. I can't imagine why those ice cream bars aren't popular in the US.

41 posted on 03/01/2013 4:49:33 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: srmorton
This woman is apparently not educated enough to know that correlation is not causation. Homosexual couples are not less healthy because they cannot marry. They are less healthy because their lifestyle is a less healthy way to live.

In this study, there isn't even a correlation. The lead researcher catalogued some health problems with homosexuals, and proposed that the underlying reason is the lack of marriage--a hypothesis that isn't even suggested by the data.

Her "methodology" seems very similar to the "methodology" of "global warming." Real phenomena are documented, real problems are discussed, but then everything is dismissed with the statement "caused by global warming."

As a scientist, I find this "methodology" extremely annoying in any context. It's not science. It's an attempt to coat a political belief with a veneer of science to give it credibility.

42 posted on 03/01/2013 4:57:06 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The professor who led the newest health-related research, Dr. Hui Liu of Michigan State University, chalked up the discrepancy to the fact that homosexuals cannot marry, as well as the burden of stress and discrimination.

This shows that professors tend to know which side the bread is buttered.

43 posted on 03/01/2013 5:16:37 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: ConorMacNessa

What a great painting. Thank you.


44 posted on 03/01/2013 5:19:23 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: exDemMom
I wonder how much of the push for gay "marriage" is really based on love and commitment?

Some probably is, but the silly thing is that normal marriage is weakest on love and commitment: consider the no-fault divorce laws making a joke of it.

45 posted on 03/01/2013 5:24:53 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: exDemMom
I wonder why it is politically incorrect to even try to research treatments for sexually based mental illnesses

California recently banned all gay straightening therapy. Surgical gender modification remains legal.

46 posted on 03/01/2013 5:27:31 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: justiceseeker93
This story has relatively little to do with religion

True, but outside of the circle of people aware of their religion I don't see anyone who cares. The only force today that stands in the way of the homosexual lobby is religion. The scientific community by and large goes into hiding to protect their tenures.

47 posted on 03/01/2013 5:34:22 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Slings and Arrows
have more disposable income

Both can be true: make less money (who would want to have a gay co-worker?) and have more disposable income due to the lack of children, as you noted. But when the researcher says that the lesser income may account for worse health care, that is possible since in our system health care is paid for by employers.

48 posted on 03/01/2013 5:38:51 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: little jeremiah

Get well soon.


49 posted on 03/01/2013 5:39:18 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: justiceseeker93

They’re not neanderthals. They’re fascists.


50 posted on 03/01/2013 6:41:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: annalex

It is possible, but there are a few other factors; e.g., gays are considered single for insurance purposes, and thus relatively cheap. I wonder if this income disparity would vanish if the data were corrected for age - gays tend to die younger than heterosexuals, and wealth increases with age.


51 posted on 03/01/2013 6:41:35 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: annalex

Were there figures for heterosexual couples who lived together but who were not married? That would be the valid comparison, I would think.


52 posted on 03/01/2013 6:54:20 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: annalex; SunkenCiv

“...the burden of stress...”

Just thinking about the dung-punching or strap-a-dick goings on is almost stressful...those doin’ it are likely really experiencing unhealthy stress...AIDS injectors & Ellen Degenerate types...


53 posted on 03/01/2013 6:56:43 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: Amberdawn

weird isn;t it how the left wing media and the lieks of Megyn Kelly never mention what homosexuality is about.

It;s about a man being turned on where the feces comes out of another man, bottom line is that is the only difference between normal people and homosexuals.

They then have parades saying they;re proud of it and the media tries to put a happy face on all this feces sex by saying they ;re gay, thus hyjacking a word which means to be happy, as always the left take words, positive words and twist those words to put a happy face on their sick twisted agenda.

I couldn;t careless today about what other people think, I hear anyone saying they;re married or anything about homosexuality , not gay then I speak up


54 posted on 03/01/2013 7:25:21 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Deep down the homos inner core is telling them that what they are doing is wrong. You can fool outsiders but you cannot fool the core. This is what leads to depression and suicide. Counterfeit marriage cannot change that inner you.


55 posted on 03/01/2013 7:26:41 AM PST by USAF80
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To: annalex

I was up all night the last 2 nights. After reading up, I realized I have pneumonia.

So I’ll pop in here now and then for a ping if I can. I gotta try to stay alive, first.


56 posted on 03/01/2013 8:45:35 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: GeronL

Who cares about the couples? It’s the kids who are the victims here.


57 posted on 03/01/2013 8:59:41 AM PST by DPMD
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To: NCLaw441

So you’re saying that sexual perverts if “married” would be different from non-”married” sexual perverts?

If that’s what you mean, you’re wrong. The big deal is the difference between normal man/woman couples and two sexual perverts. That’s the difference, not “married” or not.


58 posted on 03/01/2013 9:05:01 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: annalex; NYer; Kaslin; HarleyLady27; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; All
...outside of the circle of people aware of their religion I don't see anyone who cares. The only force today that stands in the way of the homosexual lobby is religion. The scientific community by and large goes into hiding to protect their tenures.

Religious individuals and organizations have been important in the fight against legalization of gay marriage, for example. But there are non-religious economic, social, and cultural arguments against gay marriage as well. In order to propagandize for gay marriage, leftist media deliberately portrays the opposition as limited to religious right "extremists."

But in every state in which the issue of gay marriage has been put on the ballot in some form or another, it has been defeated soundly. If a solid majority of voters are opposed, it intuitively means that there are many opposed who are not generally considered part of the "religious right." The movement against the homosexual agenda is not monolithic.

59 posted on 03/01/2013 9:11:27 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: concerned about politics; mazz44; Amberdawn; srmorton; annalex

Thanks.


60 posted on 03/01/2013 4:25:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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