The LGBT community is receiving societal delusion therapy. Delusions help gays cope with being gay

1. 'Homosexuals are more like a race than anything else' : Frankly, I've never heard or read anyone using such an argument, but the Internet is vast and full of horrors, so it's quite possible that someone somewhere actually said it. Yet, homosexual people are not a race, they're a sexual minority. It is possible that the person who made the statement wanted to make a paralel between the treatment of certain minority races and the treatment of sexual minorities. However, since I am unable to know the context in which this was used, I am not able to make a fitting argument. If the claim is 'homosexuals are a race', clearly it is wrong. If the claims is 'they've faced bad treatment from people which is akin to racism', I'd be inclined to agree that the treatment of minorities in general is not the best. Again, I've never seen this argument being made and would like to see a link with it, otherwise I'd be inclined to put it in the 'argument I made up' category. Homosexuality is nothing like bestiality. Bestiality and pedophilia because in these cases one party is not able to consent to having sexual relations. Incest also commonly involves a dominating party using force on the other party. For 80% of juvenile victims, the perpetrator was a parent. 6% were other relatives. 4% were unmarried partners of a parent. 5% were "other" (from siblings to strangers). (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children"s Bureau. 2012 Child Maltreatment Survey 2012.). You're trying to equate consenting sexual acts (homosexual sexual relations) with abuse (molestation and rape) and that is simply not true. That homosexuality is not equal to incest and beastiality is a fact, not a delusion. 2. 'Homosexuality is not inferior to heterosexuality and homosexuality is no less significant than heterosexuality' : Homosexuals are in fact able to reproduce and many have had children before 'coming out' and they can raise a child no worse than heterosexual parents. They CAN do all the things you stated, but it comes down to whether they want to or not, pretty much like all people. Also - if human inferiority is based on reproduction, does that mean people who are unable to reproduce are inferior to others? Most people tend to not measure the worth of others based on their sexuality, just saying. In any case, if there is a delusion, it's the delusion that somehow being able to produce a child somehow makes anyone superior to others. 3. "There's nothing wrong with being gay" : What you pointed out is a problem, but it has a lot to do with sexual education, and access to contraception more than it has to do with homosexuality itself. I could make the argument that there's something wrong with heterosexuality because of the high ammount of teenage pregnancies, but again - that's a problem with sexual education and access to contraception, not sex itself. The lack of decent sexual education and the access to contraception, along with the culture surrounding sexual relations are not only an issue for gay people. About the 75% obese lesbians thing - it's based on a single study, where out of 5979 participants, a mere 87 were lesbian and the study was based primarily on U.S. women. The sample size is far too small to make a broad claim such as '75% of lesbians are obese'. The study can make a claim as to the subjects of the study, but there's no sufficient data to back up that even 75% of U.S. lesbians are obese, let alone lesbians in general. Pregnancy does reduce the risk of breast cancer among women, however that is not an issue limited to lesbians, since getting pregnant and giving birth are choices for all women, not just heterosexual ones. Depression and suicide - if I lived in an environment where I was treated as a sinner, an abomination and considered less than others simply because of the way I was born, I'd be pretty depressed. But that's not an issue with homosexuality, it's an issue with society where many people feel that 'different=less than us' and they act on said belief. 'Negative attitudes and cultural stigmas toward those who are gay or transgender put LGBT youth at an increased risk for bullying, teasing, and physical violence compared with their heterosexual peers.'. http://www.healthline.com... Most of the 'problems' you pointed are not limited only to gay people and the last one isn't that people are more depressed because they're gay, but because of the way treat them because of their sexuality. But still there's nothing wrong with being gay - you are attracted to a certain person and you want to have some sort of relationship with them (be it purely sexual or a romantic one) and unless you use force to get what you desire from that, you cause no harm to anyone. I presume you'll bring up unprotected sex and STD's as a rebutal of 'no harm to anyone', so I'll say it now - lack of responcibility is not limited to homosexuals. If someone knew they had an STD and still had unprotected sex with someone, that would make them a shitty person, but that's not limited to homosexuals either. 4. "Everyone who hates gays is secretly gay": Here I'd have to agree. We can't say that everyone who hates gays is secretly gay. The study of Adams and Lohr found that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli. It has to be noted that homophobia doesn't have to include violent behaviours towards gay people, however ' the only necessary requirement for the label of phobia is that phobic stimuli produce anxiety.'. This anxiety could be brought on by societal opinions on homosexuality and masculinity. A possible explanation is found in various psychoanalytic theories, which have generally explained homophobia as a threat to an individual's own homosexual impulses causing repression, denial, or reaction formation (or all three; West, 1977). Generally, these varied explanations conceive of homophobia as one type of latent homosexuality where persons either are unaware of or deny their homosexual urges. https://www.psychologytoday.com... However, this case study is also based on a rather small sample size and at most it can offer us information about the test subjects and maybe good enough reason to do more studies on the topic of sexuality and anxiety, but it certainly doesn't give us enough evidence on whether homophobia is mostly related to latent homosexuality. Many people dislike gay people for religious reasons. Or because they don't understand why someone can be gay. That being said, a lot of people use this argument simply to anger the commenter, not so much to make homosexuals feel better. Let's not pretend we don't know people who get upset if you call them 'gay'. Out of all your arguments I've yet to see one that proves that society gives gay people delusions about reality. The LGBT community doesn't need help coping with who they are, they need people to stop treating them like second class citizens because of who they are. People treating homosexuals like any other human being helps homosexuals feel like they're like any other human being, it doesn't help them 'cope'. Black people a few decades ago didn't need help coping with being black, they needed help telling white people to cope with the idea that white doesn't make you superior to anyone else. Same with the LGBT community today.