LGBTQ, in LC and Beyond.

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Originally Posted by SerenityLives

Wow that is around 16 million Americans! And if you look at UCLA’s statistics, among millenials, it’s nearly 25 percent. Is it because society is more accepting of them to report higher numbers, cultural influences on shame, or nature/nurture?

Do you mean that of those who identify as LGBT, 25% of them are millennials? Or do you mean that of the U.S. millennial age bracket, 25% of U.S. millennials identify as LGBT?

College students do and say a lot of things they regret later on. Drinking, passing out drunk, drugs, sex they regret in the morning, hazing, driving recklessly over 100 mph, making out with people they wouldn't otherwise, getting naked in public pools, trying out lesbian/gay relationships, throwing caution to the wind. And then they wake up after college and say "Oops. I didn't have my head on straight." I can think of examples of almost all those I just gave -- and all within corporate living in a local church context! Are they doing those things anymore now that they are adults? Nope, not one of them. College students aren't bastions of reason and level-headed thinking.

If the 25% statistic remains and progresses through the age brackets as those millennials get older, then I would say that statistic gives us more to sink our teeth into.

Originally Posted by SerenityLives

I wonder if same sex attractions are immoral, why are there so many of us?

I also want to revisit briefly the logic behind this statement of yours. My comments here are not regarding the morality or immorality of same sex attractions, but just the logic of your statement.

Prevalence of something does not determine its morality. There are over 2 million people in prison right now. That's a lot! But it doesn't make what they've done (steal, prostitute young girls, murder, rape, commit fraud, grand theft auto, burglary, etc) moral.

Note, I'm not comparing same sex attractions to criminal acts. I'm just trying to show you that the logic of your conclusion does not hold up. We can use a less horrible sounding example if it helps. Almost 40% of Americans are obese. That's over 70 million people. It's a staggering number. Does that make obesity normal, healthy, good, something to attain to? Of course not. Prevalence of something doesn't determine it's rightness or wrongness.

I just want to make sure we are handling the discussion with a common and basic level of logic.

Again - I'm not comparing LGBT to crimes or to obesity. I'm not commenting on the morality of it. I'm only concerned with the leap of logic, and used those things as examples to show the logic in that one statement doesn't hold. Thanks.