CDC Study: Gays Mentally Disturbed

To: National Desk

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 29 /Covenant News Wire Service/ -- Ever wonder how sane people could do what gays do in Gay Pride parades? The nudity, the sex acts, the weird costumes? A new Centers for Disease Control study provides one answer: more gays are mentally disturbed.

Dr. Paul Cameron -- Chairman of the Colorado-based Family Research Institute -- announced today the publication of a report that sheds new light on the mental health of homosexuals. This scholarly report – which appears in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Reports -- is an analysis of a 1996 study by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was, for a time, withheld from the general public, probably because of its explosive content. In fact, the CDC has thus far declined to publish most of the results of the sexual questions posed by the study. According to Cameron, this study is the largest comprehensive random sex survey in U.S. history.

The facts are straight forward. When tested for 4 different kinds of common mental illness, gays scored higher. Indeed, 17% of gays v. 11% of straights tested as disturbed on at least one of the tests administered by the CDC. As usual, women more frequently tested disturbed than men (8% of men; 13% of women). And also as usual, homosexuals more frequently tested as disturbed (16% of gays, 19% of lesbians).

"Disturbed people do crazy things," said Dr. Cameron, who headed the three man team that published the study. "This craziness isn't due to discrimination. Blacks have been discriminated against for hundreds of years, and if anything tested a tad less disturbed. Thus, 10% of Blacks v. 11% of whites tested as disturbed, and only 4% of blacks v. 5% of whites had seen a mental health professional in the past 12 months. 12% of gays had been to a shrink in the past year (10% of gays, 14% of lesbians). Indeed, virtually every major sexuality survey that has looked at the issue has reported the same thing – homosexuals are more frequently mentally 'off.' In the CDC study, gays were twice as apt to report at least 2 problems with cigarette use (41% v. 18% for straights) and pot use (12% v. 5%). Blacks were no different than whites in problems with cigarettes (18% v. 18%) and just slightly more apt to report problems with pot use (6% v 4%)."


CONTACT:
Family Research Institute
Dr. Paul Cameron, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 62640
Colorado Springs, CO. 80962-2640
Ph. 303-681-3113
Website: www.FamilyResearchInst.org



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