41% of LGBTQ Young People Contemplated Suicide
Young people crying out for help, but receiving none
A recent mental health study of more than 28,000 LGBTQ aged 13-24 discovered 41% had seriously contemplated committing suicide in the last year.
The survey, by The Trevor Project, also found that 81% of such youths wanted mental health care.
These numbers are extraordinary but hardly surprising. Being male or female is the very essence of our humanity. Those who deny it, or go against it in any way, are mentally fighting their nature. They are trying to be what they are not. Especially in young people, this is obviously a cause for mental imbalance. We used to call it a “conscience,” but that isn’t a common term any more.
Nearly anyone can eventually mute their conscience in some matter. Murderers, thieves, rapists, etc. will, at some point, become totally immune to any feelings of guilt or remorse for their actions, even perhaps justifying them. The apostle Paul spoke of people becoming “past feeling” (Ephesians 4:19), and having “seared their conscience with a hot iron” (I Timothy 4:2). They no longer have any feeling whatever about the wrong-doing they are committing. Obviously, it usually takes a while for a person to reach this point. Older homosexuals/lesbians, who have been committing their vile acts for a long time, no longer have any pangs of conscience about it. But young people, still cursed with a conscience and innate feelings of their own masculinity or femininity, are bothered when they go so contrary to their God-created nature. As the study above showed, almost half thought about committing suicide and over 80% wanted mental health treatment.
What they need, of course, is to return to God and the way He made them. “Conquer thyself.” We all have temptations; the strong among us overcome them. The weak succumb, eventually eliminating their conscience, especially if they receive encouragement from a hedonistic, pleasure-oriented society. That, of course, is what is happening in America today.
It is a sad, evil world we live in now when young people cry out for help to overcome their sin, and they are only given support to continue in their base behavior.