It was a spectacular assertion. A 2014 study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine by a Columbia University researcher asserted that “sexual minorities living in communities with high levels of anti-gay prejudice” have a “shorter life expectancy of approximately 12 years.”
Yes, you heard that right. Being gay in an unwelcoming community takes 12 years off your life! This study was heralded broadly by the press with no critical analysis provided for the reader. Not one mainstream journalist stopped to consider, much less challenge, the sweeping grandeur of this claim. It was used as a blunt object to condemn anyone not keen on the mainstreaming of homosexuality.
Quite blunt it was. Reducing another’s life by 12 years by failing to agree with his or her sexual desires is no small charge. But is it legit?
Compare This to Other Major Health Conditions
First, just consider this 12-year-life-reduction charge in contrast to other dramatic life-reducing health conditions. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that being a regular smoker shaves up to 10 years off one’s life. Research conducted at Johns Hopkins University finds that 67-years-olds with up to five serious chronic health conditions (such as heart disease, cancer, pulmonary disease, stroke, and Alzheimer’s) will live on average 7.7 fewer years than their peers with no such conditions.
Thus, being gay, lesbian, or bisexual and living in a non-affirming community is more deleterious to one’s health than consistent smoking, heart disease, or cancer. Umm.
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2 comments:
MORE evidence that the liberal view of life is so out of touch with what is REALLY happening, they could go into the fairy tale book writing business and be as rich as Trump one day.
Probably, spending your life agonizing, fretting, worrying, and being a victim of a number of made-up hostilities (I heard someone say "fag!" AND he was standing next to a Christmas tree, too!!! Oh MY!! I'm almost dead now!!") takes years off your life, not wearing women's clothes or prancing around like a princess in your yard, or lighting up your house in rainbows.
Cause and effect are absent in his analysis.
Never trust ANY studies by a Liberal or a Liberal Institution. Agendas abound and they will do anything to lie and promote their agendas so they can get their way.
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