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Originally posted by RPKESQ
Jeff, did you read any of these sites or just do a quick and dirty Google?
If you read them then you would find out that the leading cause or drug abuse among gays is the lack of social acceptance and the pressures that it causes. (Back to gay bashers and homophobes).
Gays have a drug problem. Uhh, so do professional athletes, straights, alcoholics, priests and police. Alright I can see why it so bad that gays have it, but not the others. Ohh, wait, your not saying it's OK for the others too. Well, then just lump gays in with people who have a drug problem. No more, no less.
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I did. And, unlike you, I understand what they are saying. There are other groups with drug problems. No *****. What sets the gay community apart from these groups is the high incidence of abuse. More per capita abuse than any other group you named. By far; by a factor of several fold. Get it?
So why is this? You and Nostatic both quote from these sites that, in a nutshell, it's not their fault. Its the fault of all the homophobes that surround them in their day to day lives. It's an escape from the rejection they have faced since their youth. It is a way of coping with their differences, differences that everyone has told them are wrong. Bull*****. There is a LOT more to it than that. Many, many groups have endured similar rejection and have not resorted to drugs to numb themselves against it. There is something else going on here.
And here I go again; I don't know how many times I will have to say this. I stand firmly against any government interference in their chosen lifestyle. I will never, indeed have never, treated anyone different because they are gay. They don't scare me, I don't hate them. I do believe what they are doing in unnatural and wrong. I've been right up front about that over the years with friends and acquaintances, but I have been succesful in not having it interfere with any friendships.