RUTHFULLY YOURS

“I knew I was different before I knew what different meant,” Mike said with a slight smile.  “When I was just four, I would talk to God.  I would ask God if He made me different because I was being punished.”  Mike said that he came from a loving family and a very protective mother and a happy childhood.  “I loved going to church.  Nobody treated me differently.  I didn’t think about sex.  I didn’t know anything about being gay – just that I was different, and I kept asking God why.”

Mike said that when he was eight years old, God gave him an answer that somehow satisfied him.  God told him, “I don’t make any mistakes.  To Me you are perfect.  But Mother Nature makes mistakes – some big mistakes and some little mistakes.  She just made a little mistake; don’t worry about it.”  Mike smiled broadly at the idea that God made him perfect, even though Nature is not perfect.  It relieved his mind, and he stopped asking for an answer.  He was bullied in school, but the consciousness of being different predated by years any bullying or mistreatment.

The idea that homosexuality may be an “oops” of nature is considered intolerable bigotry by the LGBT hegemony.  The truth is that consciousness of being different in an unchosen way, especially regarding the profound and pervasive mental dimension of sexuality, is a source of distress, fear, and anger independent of social conditioning or prejudice.  The belief that sex minority problems do not arise primarily from discrimination, but rather from internal psychological processes, is heretical.  A recent article in the online Journal of the American Medical Association underscores this prejudice.

Mike was a participant in the survey the article describes.  It was conducted by Gilbert Gonzales, Ph.D. of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  Dr. Gonzales, a homosexual, is an LGBT activist whose research interests have focused on the LGBT political agenda such as same-sex marriage.

Overall, 69,000 participants were surveyed. Sixty-seven thousand one hundred fifty were reported to be heterosexual, 525 lesbian, 624 gay, and 515 bisexual.  Dr. Gonzales’s research concluded that lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults are more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, “stressors that LGB people experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination.”

Health problems and addictions are, of course, caused by heterosexual bigotry.  Dr. Gonzales told Reuters Health that “the health disparities are likely due to the stress of being a minority[.]”  He further explained that minority stress “is likely exacerbated among bisexual people, who may not be accepted by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.”

The conclusion that illnesses among these individuals are caused by political status and discrimination is speculation.  Dr. Gonzales is not reporting science, despite a patina of statistics in his survey.

It is a tragedy that the highest levels of medical literature such as JAMA willfully confuse polemics with science.  The hodgepodge LGBT construct is a political device intended to unify and empower a political constituency.  LGBT hegemony provides an artificial political aristocracy to distract from the real problems facing America.  Every Big Lie needs a scapegoat.  The scapegoat of LGBT hegemony expressed in this propaganda is “hetero guilt forever.”

Mike lay in his bed when he was four and asked God why he was different not because of structural discrimination or minority stress.  His questioning of God, by his own report, had nothing to do with his external environment and everything to do with distress at his differentness from the prevailing natural order.  The psychological, biological, and behavioral realities of LGBT consciousness encompass inherent elements of psychological stress.

LGBT hegemony loves the term “community” because it is a political, not medical, term.  But what constitutes membership in such a community?  When Mike graduated from college, he moved to a large urban area.  Did he do this because he wanted to belong to a “gay” community?  He says not.  He wanted a good job and to have fun.  Is the club scene where he contracted HIV worthy of the term community?

When Mike could no longer work, he moved back home, where he is loved and accepted by his family.  He keeps up his mother’s garden and is the music director at his church.  He is still talking to God and doing well.