In its October 10th cover story, Time magazine ran a sickening article about gay teens. The story glowed over the prospect that more teens identify themselves as gay. It praised efforts to provide gay teens with scholarships and the proliferation of Gay Straight Alliance clubs in public schools. It dismissed professional and religious claims that homosexual orientation can be treated.
Anyone who knows Time magazine’s history wouldn’t be surprised. The rag has been a tool of the secularized Left for decades now. Purporting to provide objective news stories, it instead advances an agenda. In my opinion, a reader can trust it about as well as a viewer can trust the speakers at a national political convention.
But the gay teen article’s approach was surprising, even for Time.
It turns out that the journalist who researched and wrote the story is a homosexual with a long history of advancing gay causes, including the promotion of anonymous homosexual orgies and writing a guide to gay bathhouses.
That’s like sending Ann Coulter to research and write about the Bush White House. Do you expect muckraking journalism?
Thing is, Time’s deceit isn’t new. An incredible number of outlets in the mainstream media promote the political cause of homosexuality under the cloak of objective journalism. Many, like Time, do so intentionally; others, I suspect, just mindlessly regurgitate the same material and reflexively ignore other material.
When, for instance, is the last time you read or heard the following statistics discussed, much less reported and accepted as a fact?
Two well-designed major studies of young people with same-sex attractions published in the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed they were over 6 times as likely to have attempted suicide, 4 times as likely as their peers to suffer major depression, almost three times as likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder, nearly 4 times as likely to experience conduct disorder, 5 times as likely to have nicotine dependence, 6 times as likely to suffer multiple disorders.
That passage is from Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons of the National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. I have no outside knowledge of NARTH, but similar statistics can be found in other sources.
And it’s those figures that make the Time piece and others like it disturbing.
It’s not about politics. It’s not about sexual freedom. It’s about mental health: the gay lifestyle defeats it. It’s about happiness: the gay lifestyle doesn’t promote it.
It’s about helping youngsters who may have a gay proclivity to avoid it.
Yet mainstream media is doing the exact opposite. It’s pushing children to it and praising their “coming out” efforts. This is exactly what the Time cover story did. It is happy that 13- 14- and 15-year-old children are announcing that they’re gay.
But why should the youngsters declare a specific sexual identity at all? They’re not even old enough to understand sex and its implications. Don’t we want to give them time to understand the implications, instead of cheering them on?
I don’t doubt that many of these teens do, indeed, have a homosexual inclination. Some people are born with a greater tendency. Just as some are born with a tendency to become alcoholics or to lust after women, some crave the same sex. As far as the phenomenon of sin goes in general, the homosexual phenomenon is not terribly unusual.
But we can’t forget that sin makes us unhappy. It’s not a difficult formula to remember: sin separates us from God, Who is the source of goodness, and from goodness, comes happiness. If we are separated from God, we are separated from goodness and happiness.
We shouldn’t create a societal situation in which any sin is encouraged and normalized for children who are at crucial stages of development. We did so with heterosexual sex, and the results have been horrible. We don’t need to repeat the mistake with homosexual sex.
Yet that’s what the mainstream media is doing, all under the guise of objective journalism.
Time magazine was just the most glaring example of it.
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Eric Scheske is an attorney, the Editor of The Daily Eudemon, a Contributing Editor of Godspy, and the former editor of Gilbert Magazine.
