AFA leader: Having ‘fewer homosexual students’ would reduce teen suicide

Bryan Fischer

The sudden surge of gay teens committing suicide could be stopped if society would simply help teens resist the “self-destructive” impulses of homosexuality and “redirect their sexual energies in healthy and life-giving directions,” according to Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for government and public policy for the American Family Association.

Fischer’s group has already spent more than $80,000 on a campaign in Iowa to oust three state Supreme Court justices up for a retention vote this fall, and has promised to spend $200,000 before the Nov. 2 election. No stranger to controversy, Fischer has previously said gay sex is “domestic terrorism,” gay adoption is an “inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children,” and Hitler and his Stormtroopers were all gay.

He has also been criticized for saying Muslim Americans are guilty of treason and that inbreeding has damaged the “intelligence, sanity, and health” of Muslims around the world.

In September 2010 alone, at least six gay youth — all of whom endured a relentless stream of taunts by their classmates — ended their own lives.  Fischer said that he opposes anyone being bullied because of the “color of his skin, his deeply held religious values or his sexual preference”. But now activists are trying to use the suicides to “silence and intimidate critics of homosexual conduct,” Fischer said.

From Fischer’s blog:

It must be pointed out that homosexual activists are not wholly innocent in these tragedies either. Homosexuals cannot reproduce so they must recruit. Part of the agenda of groups like GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) is to urge students at younger and younger ages to come out and declare a disordered sexual preference. Sexually confused youth are pressured into locking into a sexual identity far before they are mature enough to do so.

We know that suicidal ideation occurs far more frequently among homosexuals than in the normal population, even in Europeans countries where homosexuality has been accepted for decades and critics of homosexuality can be thrown in jail. For adults who know this to urge students to self-identify as homosexual is to condemn them to yield to dark and ultimately tragic impulses. And students just aren’t developed enough to handle it. I’m afraid GLSEN and groups like them may share more of the blame for these suicides than anyone.

Homosexual conduct is as risky and dangerous as injection drug abuse. No right-thinking adult would encourage a student tempted to shoot up to yield to such impulses and plunge headlong into a drug-addled lifestyle. In fact, we would be highly critical of any adult who would do that, and hold him partially accountable for the destruction that would follow.

Nor should we encourage students wrestling with same-sex attractions to take the plunge. Rather, they should be helped to resist these self-destructive impulses and redirect their sexual energies in healthy and life-giving directions. It can be done; in fact, it happens every day.

If we want to see fewer students commit suicide, we want fewer homosexual students. What all truly caring adults will want to do for a student struggling with his sexual identity is to help him resist dangerous sexual impulses, accept his biological identity as either male or female, and help him learn to adjust his psychological identity to his God-given biological one.