LGBT Sermon: Homosexuality and the Church

Research Links:

Homosexuality increases depression, suicide, substance abuse
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/481699

Amalgamation of 13,706 papers finds increases in depression, suicide and substance abuse among other psychiatric disorders for people with same sex partners significantly higher than heterosexual
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-8-70

Significant increase in STD, HIV/AIDS and psychological morbidity in LGBT people
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2006.087254

Suicide among Homosexual men higher than heterosexual men
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446201/

Attempted suicide rate among LGBT youths 31% mental disorders like serious depression, conduct disorder way higher than hetero sexual
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2009.178319

Longitudinal study on LGBT youth found suicide attempts at 31.2%
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-012-0013-9

Discrimination does not account for the disparity in mental health between LGBT and Heterosexual people. Journal of LGBT Health Research 2008
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15574090802226626

Having a homosexual parent(s) appears to increase the risk of incest or molestation by a parent by a factor of about 50.”
http://search.proquest.com/openview/67bcdd654b9a3faae8a46316fa0d4fcd/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819054

Modal range of sexual partners for older gay men between 100-500
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499709551903

Increase in sexual partners increases depression
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379705002138

Most occurrences of domestic abuse among lesbian women
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/vav/1997/00000012/00000002/art00006

Stories of LGBT hate, bigotry and persecution against loving Christians

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/if-you-think-christians-arent-being-persecuted-in-the-u.s.-its-because-your
• http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/courts-conclude-faith-loses-to-gay-demands/
• https://stream.org/gay-totalitarianism-coming-persecution-christians/

40% suicidality among transgender people/Schools teaching gender spectrum to elementary students:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/02/526067768/a-new-generation-overthrows-gender?sc=tw

Infographic on number of years lost with corresponding addictions (Source not academic)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2788399/how-years-drinking-drug-smoking-habits-shaving-life-terrifying-graphic-reveals-one-cigarette-cuts-14-minutes-alcoholic-drink-cost-7-hours.html

Suicidality in Nazi Concentration camps 25%
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7738915_The_Suicide_Rate_in_the_Concentration_Camps_Was_Extraordinarily_High_A_Comment_on_Bronisch_and_Lester

2011 study on the occurrence of LGBT people (3.8% total, .3% Transgender, 1.8% bisexual, 1.7% Gay or lesbian)
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf

Kinsley institute article saying 73-88% of children with gender dysphoria will identify as adults by their anatomic gender
https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/publications/faq.php

Life expectancy for gay men is 8-20 years shorter than heterosexual men
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/26/3/657/742184/Modelling-the-impact-of-HIV-disease-on-mortality

Singles and marrieds have similar life satisfaction
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019251392013003008

Life satisfaction of singleness roughly equal but to heterosexual marriage (Study not a direct examination)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/353980?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents