“More likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors”

Editor: Understatement of the decade.  Self-described homosexuals have sure done a number on the Catholic Church.  Let's see what they can do for other sectors of society.

Greater chance homosexual and bisexual students will participate in risky activities, CDC study finds

News release by Centers for Disease Control
June 6, 2011

Students who report being gay, lesbian or bisexual and students who report having sexual contact only with persons of the same sex or both sexes are more likely than heterosexual students and students who report having sexual contact only with the opposite sex to engage in unhealthy risk behaviors such as tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual risk behaviors, suicidal behaviors, and violence, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"This report should be a wake-up call for families, schools and communities that we need to do a much better job of supporting these young people. Any effort to promote adolescent health and safety must take into account the additional stressors these youth experience because of their sexual orientation, such as stigma, discrimination, and victimization," said Howell Wechsler, Ed.D, M.P.H, director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH). "We are very concerned that these students face such dramatic disparities for so many different health risks."

This report represents the first time that the federal government has conducted an analysis of this...


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