Questions Raised About Homosexual Advocacy on Gov't Website

By Jim Brown
January 18, 2006

(AgapePress) - A conservative columnist and prominent mental health expert is expressing concern over a federal government website that celebrates homosexuality.

The Family Research Council has revealed that an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has numerous pages of "pro-homosexual propaganda posted on one of its websites." A website of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) boasts of "celebrating the pride and diversity among and within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations." (Link to website -- Warning: This website contains pro-homosexual material)

Columnist Dr. Warren Throckmorton says the website contain erroneous information, and points out that "one of the so-called 'facts'" on the website quotes a 1989 Department of Health report saying that homosexual youth are up to five times more likely to attempt suicide. "Anyone who knows this literature at all knows that that report ... was speculation," Throckmorton says. "There are no data, there's no research to support that. That's been debunked many, many times."

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