I am writing regarding the shocking statistic in the June 29 New Times (advertisement on page 3) about LGBTQ-plus young people in San Luis Obispo County: 48 percent of them have seriously considered suicide!
Just before the end of the school year, we ended up protesting the heinous suggestion by SLO High School teacher Michael Stack that the Bible is 100 percent accurate that these people are “deserving of death.” The school came up with a 10-point list of areas to address, but we need to do more! These young people are our future, and they need to know they are valued members of our society, no matter what they might see on the news, hear from teachers, or see on social media.
The Central Coast Coalition for Inclusive Schools is already working on this, but we need to be sure we’re making a difference everywhere by encouraging all our young people to be accepting of themselves and others.
Michelle Call
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Jul 6-16, 2017.
Unfortunately homophobia and religiously motivated negative image of homosexual, anxiety and suicide are a well established fact in the scientific and medical literature. As the foremost sex researchers of their time, both vigorously heterosexual, stated regarding their attempt through complex statistical solutions and large populations found, “At the present time biological rather than psychological issues underlie the majority of homosexual etiology.