Study: Gay Health Imperiled By Denial Of Marriage

[LiberalGuy000]

by Mark Worrall, 365Gay.com San Francisco Bureau
February 28, 2006 - 3:00 pm ET

(San Francisco, California) A new national study shows widespread psychological and social harm inflicted on same-sex couples because they are denied the right to marry.

The study, called “I Do, But I Can’t" was released at a San Francisco news conference Tuesday by the National Sexuality Resource Center and is the first first peer-reviewed study to analyze the impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well being of gay men and lesbians.

The co-authors are Gilbert Herdt, PhD, anthropologist, and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University, and Robert Kertzner, MD, practicing psychiatrist, and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.

They found that on average, married individuals have better mental health, more emotional support, less psychological distress, and lower rates of psychiatric disorder than the unmarried.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/02/022806marrHealth.htm

[sui generis]

1. but that's exactly WHAT they want for us

to be miserable and unhappy.

It doesn't work that way of course. But when I hear people say "one of the happiest days of my life was when he proposed" or "when we got married", I wonder why these same people think we should have no happy days, why the happiest days of our lives would affect anything in their lives at all.

You can't appeal to them on human decency though. They don't care about anyone else's happiness, much less mental health.

[closeupready]

2. Correct. In fact, if gays are unhappy, "suits me just fine."

In their world view, it is just that gays are unhappy/unhealthy.

[Siyahamba]

3. They want us to see the error of our ways

So we can "correct" ourselves and be happy and healthy. :puke: