Increased Suicide Among Gay Youth in Michele "Hater" Bachmann Supporters District

Michael in Norfolk addresses the issue of increased GLBT youth suicides in a school district which supports Nutty Michele's anti-everything-that-isn't-her-hateful-school-of-thought agenda.

I wish that people would just laugh this nut out of office. They have to be insane to have voted her in in the first place.

Believe me, I know from insane. I have several mental illnesses: a mood disorder and two personality disorders. However, I consider myself to be generally rational even though my brain wants to kill me several times a month.

If lunatics like Bachmann get into office, people like me will suffer too--particularly gay people with mental illness. Because these crazies will want us to both pray away our "demons" and to "pray away the gay." 

(I'm actually straight, but tend to 'come off' as a lesbian in the eyes of people who look to stereotypes because I'm not particularly "feminine.")

It's scary times we live in.

What's next? Fred Phelps for President?

At that point, we might as well just whip out the grape Kool Aid. Either that, or Canada will have a large influx of illegal immigrants crossing their southern border!

You Can't "Pray Away the Gay"

Michael In Norfolk is an attorney in his forties. His blog is "Coming Out in Midlife." He discusses in this post how the denial of homosexual orientation as valid causes harm not only to people in denial about their sexuality but to their opposite sex partners, who feel betrayed.

I think that the late Anthony Perkins is a great example of how damaging the anti-homosexual propaganda is. Tony tried to be in a straight marriage. He was by all accounts a loving father and his wife described him as her best friend. But he ended up having numerous shame-filled one night stands with other men and contracted HIV. At the end of his life when his wife was asked why she didn't leave him, she said that he had always treated her kindly and respectfully and she would not leave him in his time of need. She understood what many people fail to understand. If he had been able to be true to himself, to find a same-sex partner that he resonated with, his shame wouldn't have led him to these promiscuous affairs.

You can't "pray away the gay" any more than a straight person can "turn gay overnight." Marcus Bachmann and his ilk are doing terrible harm to people who are already conflicted.