Prominent journal retracts 2014 study hailed as proof gays suffer poor health due to social stigma
by Doug Mainwaring, LifeSite:
In a stunning move, a professional journal has retracted a 2014 study that purported to prove LGBT persons experience negative health consequences due to the suffering a heteronormative world inflicts on them by stigmatizing them.
“Structural Stigma and All-cause Mortality in Sexual Minority Populations,” published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, can still be found online but with “RETRACTED” in bright, red bold capital letters stamped across every page.
When it was first published, the study — conducted by a team of researchers led by Columbia University professor Mark Hatzenbuehler — was widely praised by LGBT activists and a supportive mainstream media who were happy to indict Christian morals as hazardous to the health of gays.
The authors declared that sexual minorities living in “high-prejudice communities” have a 12-year shorter life expectancy. They also pointed to a striking 18-year difference in the average age of suicide for sexual minorities living in “high-prejudice (age 37.5)” versus “low-prejudice (age 55.7) communities.”
The bottom line of the report was that attitudes and behaviors perceived to be negative toward members of the LGBT world need to be rooted out. In essence, the moral objections of Christians and others were to blame not only for victimizing gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders, but for cutting years — even decades — off their lives.
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