Actually, CBC, mtymouse was making just the opposite assertion, that homosexuals experience more depression and other mental health problems even when not experiencing social rejection or bigotry.
That is what I wanted to see evidence of. I beleve that the what you say is true. And your article supports the idea that these problems are the result of a hostile environment.

"That is what I wanted to see evidence of.[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Mark/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif[/IMG] I beleve that the what you say is true. And your article supports the idea that these problems are the result of a hostile environment."


Here’s one interesting source I found:

Homosexuality and Mental Health Problems

Some quotes from said source:


“Summary: Recent studies show homosexuals have a substantially greater risk of suffering from a psychiatric problems than do heterosexuals. We see higher rates of suicide, depression, bulimia, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse. This paper highlights some new and significant considerations that reflect on the question of those mental illnesses and on their possible sources.”


“The Effect of Social Stigma
Third, does pressure from society lead to mental health problems? Less, I believe, than one might imagine. The authors of the study done in The Netherlands were surprised to find so much mental illness in homosexual people in a country where tolerance of homosexuality is greater than in almost all other countries. Another good comparison country is New Zealand, which is much more tolerant of homosexuality than is the United States. Legislation giving the movement special legal rights is powerful, consistently enforced throughout the country, and virtually never challenged. Despite this broad level of social tolerance, suicide attempts were common in a New Zealand study and occurred at about the same rate as in the U.S.
In his cross-cultural comparison of mental health in the Netherlands, Denmark and the U.S., Ross (198 could find no significant differences between countries - i.e. the greater social hostility in the United States did not result in a higher level of psychiatric problems.
There are three other issues not covered in the Archives journal articles which are worthy of consideration. The first two involve DSM category diagnoses.”

“In conclusion, then, if we ask the question "Is mental illness inherent in the homosexual condition?" the answer would have to be "Further research--uncompromised by politics --should be carried out to honestly evaluate this issue." -- By N.E. Whitehead, Ph.D. (Author of "My Genes Made Me Do It")

I have no idea how that smiley ended up in the middle of the quoted text... LOL.

Anyway, I appreciate his closing quote "uncompromised by politics" being the key term. This issue has been WAY over-politicized by both sides, IMO.

I kind of disagree with that. You can have differences that are pretty harmless from social and physical standpoint but are still simply wrong. There are many things in nature that are obviously wrong but not necessarily negative.

From a physiologic standpoint, nature has gone through great lengths to make sexual contact between male and female animals a beautiful process. Not the act itself, but the coordination of egg, sperm, hormones, lubrication, muscles, etc. Homosexuality causes an animal to totally ignore "normal" sexual programming and pursue a path that nature obviously didn't equip him/her for. To try and dissassociate that from any of the other disorders that causes the sex drive to be directed in unnatural directions is only hiding from the obvious.

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mytmouse57 said: I think this is an excellent point. We seem to be assuming a consistent sexual perspective. Historically, our dichotomous "straight/gay" notion is peculiar (but not unique). Sexual perspectives have shifted drastically just in our human history. Extending our current sexual perspective to animals might be reaching a bit too far.

Not really, I've seen dogs adopt kittens and vice versa. If you want to stretch that to human, why not give our newborn baby orphans to gorrillas or dogs? There are incidences of feral kids. And who knows what undocumented stuff goes on in some of the poorer nations on this planet.