Hannah Hoyland
Hour 3
March 1st
Mr.Stanley
Quit denying our basic rights!
Researchers have found that attempted suicide rates and suicidal ideation among lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth is comparatively higher than among the
general population.LGBT teens and young adults have one of the highest rates of suicide
attempts. According to some groups, this is linked to heterocentric cultures and institutionalised
homophobia in some cases, including the use of rights and protections for LGBT people as a
political wedge issue like in the contemporary efforts to halt legalising same-sex marriages.
Depression and drug use among LGBT people have both been shown to
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Depression and drug use among
LGBT people have both been shown to increase significantly after new laws that
discriminate against gay people are passed.
Most religious people have beliefs that the LGBT community shouldn’t exist.
The Bill would prevent the government from taking action against businesses
that discriminate against LGBT people based on their “religious belief or moral
conviction” that marriage is defined as a union solely between one man and one
woman. A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found, not
surprisingly, that opposition to gay marriage and homosexuality is highest
among the most religious.
homosexuality is on par with covetousness, malice, envy, murder,
slander, insolence, rebellion against parents, ruthlessness, deceit, pride,
and the like—not one destined to destroy society. (And liberals, of course,
believe the Bible does not discourage homosexuality at