Category: Culture War

CWN had a link to this BBC piece with some interesting data bits. For a few seconds some reality was peeking out:
“The survey found that 42% of the gay men, 43% of lesbians and 49% of bisexual men and women had a clinically recognised mental health problem.”
Which makes sense: one mental health problem may well be correlated with the presence of others.
However, the story and the researchers seem to cover this with spin and speculation, pretending that this level of mental illness is caused by “anti-gay prejudice”. Considering how much mental illness is biological in nature, it seems awfully strained to claim that. Here’s the sort of evidence the story presents:
“Eighty-three per cent of respondents said they had experienced either damage to property, personal attacks or verbal insults in the last five years, or insults and bullying at school, with many attributing these experiences to their sexuality.”
I’m surprised: only 83%?
Did you notice how broad that list of offenses is? I’d expect virtually everybody, normal or not, gets a verbal insult at least once in a five-year period. But only 83% of gays do: what makes them so lucky?
Really. Anybody (other than a hermit) who hasn’t been called names in the past five years just isn’t trying hard enough. Even I got called a bleepin’ bleepbleep by a dear friend a couple of weeks ago.
So I’m willing to read the study if it’s published somewhere, but call me skeptical.

Here’s a pic someone posted to FreeDominion.ca …

The sign being carried by the young ladies states, “Yo Hippy, shouldn’t you be working?”

Free Dominion finally got the picture up of the President sharing a big Texas grin as he gives us the thumb’s up…

Sports Illustrated wants your vote for Sportsman of the Year, and one of the candidates is Pat Tillman, the football player who gave up millions of dollars to enlist in the Army. As you recall, he was killed fighting murderous thugs in Afghanistan earlier this year.
I don’t really pay much attention to sports, so I can’t say much about the other candidates. But it seems to me that the heart of sportsmanship is realizing that no matter how important the game might be, it’s just a game. That’s why you treat your opponent fairly, you don’t cheat, you act with dignity…and sometimes, you walk away for something more important.
If you have a moment, vote Pat Tillman for Sportsman of the Year. He’s the second picture from the bottom.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

(Thanks to Grig at FreeDominion.ca)