It’s been a while since Michael Brown had himself an anti-LGBT meltdown, so he was due. Cue the ranting in his May 3 WorldNetDaily column:
According to a major study by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, “bisexual women die, on average, nearly 40 percent younger than heterosexual women, while lesbian women die 20 percent sooner.” These are tragic numbers, numbers that should concern all of us, regardless of our attitudes towards lesbianism and bisexuality. If you care about people, this is sad to hear.
As reported in the Daily Mail, “The researchers used data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, a cohort of over 100,000 female nurses born between 1945 and 1964 and surveyed since 1989.”
So, while the study focuses on a particular segment of society, it relies on a tremendous amount of data and covers almost 30 years of death records.
What was the cause of these alarmingly shortened life-expectancies? According to lead author Dr. Sarah McKetta, research fellow at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, “The difference in mortality is said to be due to the ‘toxic social forces’ LGBTQ people face, which can ‘result in chronic stress and unhealthy coping mechanisms.'”
The theory is that bisexual women, who face stigmatization both inside and outside the LGBTQ community, have the most social isolation, whereas lesbians only face that isolation outside the LGBTQ community.
Let’s not pretend that Brown isn’t cheering this development. He certainly believes these people have it coming:
I would propose something far more basic, namely, that gay and bisexual women are less likely to have long-term, family-based relationships (meaning, committed relationships that result in the production of children) than heterosexual women. And because healthy families provide the most stable, emotionally strong and supportive environments for human thriving, the lack of this support base produces more emotional and social instability.
Put another way, God’s ways are ways of life, and when we deviate from His intended pattern, we shorten our lives.
That’s why the life insurance policy of a smoker is higher than that of a non-smoker, or the life insurance policy of a stunt man who is also a heavy drinker is higher than that of an accountant who doesn’t drink.
This is not to say that your average gay or bisexual woman is partying day and night or sleeping around freely or engaging in substance abuse. It is simply to suggest that, even in the most affirming environments, LGBTQ identified people will, on average, have shorter lifespans simply because they violate God’s pattern for human thriving.
[…]There are certainly single women who are blessed, and there are certainly gay and bisexual women who settle down in families. But to the extent that we deviate from God’s intended plan for human thriving, it will take its inevitable toll.
Brown spent part of his May 13 column reading headlines from his fellow homophobes at Breitbart that noted “a non-binary occultist named Bambie Thug joins with Islamic protesters in Sweden outraged over the presence of an Israeli singer at Eurovision,” a “transgender woman” (their scare quotes) who ran over a man with his car, “stabbed him 9 times, then kissed him and danced around over his body” — funny how Breibart never seems to run stories on white heterosexual male killers — and J.K. Rowling spewing transphobia before focusing on GLAAD noting that there was a decrease in LGBT characters on TV:
So, 468 LGBTQ characters is not enough? And 1 in 20 characters identifying as transgender is not enough, even though that is 10 times higher than reality?
As stated by GLAAD’s CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, “We know it is imperative for the queer community, especially transgender people, to see our lives reflected on screen to counteract the misinformation and harmful rhetoric going unchecked by politicians and journalists. And we know that younger audiences are hungry for shows that truly reflect the world around them.”
In other words, we must continue to pump out the propaganda, first indoctrinating impressionable young people, then confirming their confusion and pain. And at any cost, we must counteract the “misinformation and harmful rhetoric going unchecked by politicians and journalists.”
In other words, we must counteract any view that challenges our own, in particular, that which is spoken by Christian conservatives.
Brown is never going to admit that the “view” he advances is just as much propaganda as what he accuses GLAAD of doing. He concluded with more of his usual faux compassion:
As for those who truly struggle with gender confusion, may our scorn for the moral chaos not outweigh our compassion for them as individuals. As they find wholeness from the inside out, they themselves will demonstrate to the watching world that there is a better way. Until then, we can only expect the headlines to get worse.
He added that only after heaping scorn on anyone who’s not as much of a right-wing heterosexual as he is.