Why Nearly 40 Percent of Gen Z Identify
as LGBTQ
American Thinker,
by
Vince Coyner
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
2/16/2022 3:37:22 AM
I was shocked not long ago when I read a piece on the Newsweek website. The headline read “Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Gen Zs, 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Poll Shows.” (snip) That tells you a lot about the state of America today. (snip) It’s guaranteed that you won’t find this absurdity in nations where people struggle for food, water, shelter and freedom (snip) we have 40 million or more young people who have the luxury of navel gazing themselves out of the most basic of biological truths.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 2/16/2022 4:08:08 AM (No. 1073249)
It's all quite silly. One of my young daughter's friends says she's bisexual. Child has never so much as held hands with anyone much less had sex. They say it because they have been taught you're special if you're an alphabet soup person. Who doesn't want to be special?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/16/2022 4:11:34 AM (No. 1073250)
It's not silly, it's indoctrination. This is about the only thing our schools teach effectively today.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/16/2022 4:51:09 AM (No. 1073258)
It's also drawing God's judgment against US as a nation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 2/16/2022 4:51:59 AM (No. 1073260)
Kids havent changed. They want to be different, but not TOO different. They want to keep it inside the limits of what is considered normal, but still edgy. When we were kids, being gay was outside the limits of normal so nobody faked it. There were a few really gay kids and life was rough for them, but at least normal kids werent pretending to be just to be different.
So, in order for the pedophiles to get fresh meat, they move the goal posts on what is normal. By the time the kids figure out they really arent a weird rainbow kid, they are either used up or have committed suicide. Either way, problem solved for the pedos.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 2/16/2022 5:06:30 AM (No. 1073272)
This is shocking, but at the same time I am not surprised. Culture rot is real and it is being championed by the left. It seems they enjoy out weirding each other. Whatever is trending is the influencer. Apparently now, even sexual proclivities.
We have been taught to be accepting of just about anything regardless if it is right, good, or moral. Pursuing a Godly life in this world is under attack because there is a clear delineation of right and wrong when you take that path. One word we don’t hear very often is sin even in many churches. It has become lost in the desire to be nonjudgmental. It makes us uncomfortable and we do not like discomfort of any kind. We bristle at the least bit of criticism. Our psyches just can’t take it so we navigate toward a group of people who are like minded and will not challenge us. However, that same group can be viciously critical of anyone outside their circle.
Humans for the most part are social creatures. We enjoy being a part of something. The challenge today for traditional parents is finding a group of friends for your children at a young age who have your same values. The best decision my parents ever made was taking me to church and encouraging me to get involved. Many of the friends I made then are still my very dear friends. Our family has been rooted in the church and we have seen our children and grandchildren walk this same path. It is not a guarantee but it has been so very important when you are faced with a culture that is pulling you away from your foundational truths. That grounding in faith is crucial in that it gives a child a basis, a reason for having the courage to walk a different path. This is what has worked for our family. There have been bumps along the way but at the end of the day those values and truths that were instilled in our children we now see being passed down to their children. It is heartbreaking to see so many kids today who are rudderless. They have no core values or beliefs. When you are that kid, you are ripe for influencers who have very little to offer but emptiness. Be an influencer in your kids’ lives. Live out Christ in your life. You will never regret it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/16/2022 5:38:00 AM (No. 1073286)
This article is a lot of CRAPOLA!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/16/2022 5:39:45 AM (No. 1073287)
I posted too soon,..sorry
I wanted to add: I do not think I'll ever read another article by Vince Coyner.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/16/2022 6:31:13 AM (No. 1073313)
For years they have been taught IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT! Now kids have no moral absolutes. Boys are girls, girls are boys, and it I'd cool to not be straight because that is being judgemental. They do it to fit in. .any outgrow it, but many are scarred for life, co fused as to what they need to be to be accepted.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 2/16/2022 6:58:08 AM (No. 1073318)
Randi Whinegarten let the cat out of the bag a few days ago, claiming it's not about the science, it's about feelings. The schools have been pushing this nonsense for a few decades now, so it's not surprising that they've indoctrinated a generation of confused twits. But it's all really simple: XX = female, XY = male. Period. End of subject.
I follow the Science.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Donna M 2/16/2022 7:01:27 AM (No. 1073321)
Like marijuana, promoted by Soros and his evil minions, this was spread by those paid by him to corrupt the future of the West and the collapse of any society other than feudal. Everyone knows for decades now that he is the devil incarnate. In a just world, he, his family, and his minions would be sent back to he%%.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 2/16/2022 7:05:27 AM (No. 1073325)
Weak people want more people to also be weak.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/16/2022 7:12:49 AM (No. 1073329)
Teach them that LGBTQ spells pervert.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cgood 2/16/2022 7:20:11 AM (No. 1073335)
Maybe the Gen Z label is prophetic.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/16/2022 7:20:35 AM (No. 1073336)
We should have never, ever gotten ride of the draft.
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There is no moral code because parents don't take kids to church or synagogue. Ask them why they celebrate Christmas and Easter. It's because it is what you do, not for religious reasons. Going along with the crowd to fit in. The only moral training left is from the schools and look where that gets us. Same thing is happening with patriotism.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/16/2022 7:34:09 AM (No. 1073347)
It’s a fad and a way to be one of the cool kids. It will pass, but probably not before a lot of damage is done.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/16/2022 7:40:56 AM (No. 1073352)
Polls says whatever the pollster wants them to say. Buyer beware. This is simply a method for shaping opinion that dates back to the earliest Snake Oil Salesman.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
msts 2/16/2022 8:07:54 AM (No. 1073375)
Its not true.While you see an upotick in kids professing some alpabet soup designation, in no way is it 40%. Look at your kids and their friends. Is it 40%with them? If not, then its more than 40% somewhere else. Its like the 10% strictly homosexual lie from thirty years ago. Numbers to promote complete acceptance. If the real number was shown, we could all say that it was an abomination. At "40%" the nitwit will say "Well evryone is doing it so i should just keep quiet",
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/16/2022 8:14:29 AM (No. 1073383)
Proving that homosexuality is not something you are born with. It's a learned sickness.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/16/2022 8:27:28 AM (No. 1073399)
Its not just age. Political inclination plays a part too. An elderly friend of mine over 75 insisted that over 10% adult males are homosexual (or gay as he put it). When I showed him how mathematically impossible that was based on published CDC numbers. He started arguing against CDC (who he rabidly supports on COVID) and finally the math. There is no convincing them.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Pegmo 2/16/2022 8:40:57 AM (No. 1073415)
and take the fathers out of the home and boys identify with their moms and are vulnerable to predatory homosexuals......send the moms to work and the girls have no feminine role model. It's not that hard to figure out.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
harleynyc 2/16/2022 8:49:52 AM (No. 1073431)
I don't believe it. The gay community always exagerates their strength. They'd have you believe Adam was gay and Eve was a lesbian.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
homefry 2/16/2022 8:51:44 AM (No. 1073435)
#1, EXACTLY!! The liberalized state of things nowdays tells them it is cool.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/16/2022 9:02:38 AM (No. 1073451)
It's the same reason so many kids in my generation smoked. Followers follow the leaders who represent what ever happens to be the "in" thing to do at any given time. The vast majority of us are followers and seek acceptance and the criteria for acceptance are established by the leaders of the cool kids club.
Sadly a subset of what's currently an acceptance criteria involves perversion and mutilation.
Another factor making this trend particularly harmful is the death of the grownup. (shamelessly stolen term from Diana West) Perpetual childhood has removed the adult resistance to dangerous pursuits of all things cool since the parents are still doing it themselves.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Ruhn 2/16/2022 9:09:53 AM (No. 1073462)
Yet another consequence of nth wave feminism (a. k. a. Frankfurt School/Gramscian cultural marxism). Delude our impressionable children that boys should be feminized, girls should be masculinized and to advance the lie that the nuclear family is a patriarchal instrument of oppression. No wonder "Gen Z" is so confused.
Consider this: The Chinese Communist Party is keenly observing and taking heed what is culturally unfolding in the West. CCP official organs warn against raising a generation of emasculated boys and espousing sexually vague terms. To their credit, they realize boys will grow up to be men, husbands and fathers. Men that must do the heavy lifting (sometimes literally) in any society: dirty jobs, construction jobs, war fighting. Girls will grow up to be women, wives and mothers. Women must do the heavy lifting of raising children and running a household. To reject these truths is an invitation for societal suicide.
While China (and Russia) will exploit the West's societal decline and fall, they are taking notice NOT to allow the alphabet nonsense to take root in their own culture.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 2/16/2022 9:21:06 AM (No. 1073470)
Why? Fear... That's why. Fear of reprisals.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trapper 2/16/2022 9:33:52 AM (No. 1073488)
Tells us nothing about Gen Z and everything about Newsweek and whoever made up that absurd claim. Complete BS.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
red1066 2/16/2022 9:37:00 AM (No. 1073495)
That 40% stuff tells me that there are a lot of Gen Z kids looking for companionship. These people live with their phones and social media. They'll say anything to gain attention and belong to a group. It's like a click in high school. Ten years from now, they won't have the same ideas or convictions. As long as they believe they belong to a group, they won't view themselves as being lonely.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
David Key 2/16/2022 9:42:43 AM (No. 1073499)
Humans tend to be herd animals, despite the romantic images of the loner in the wilderness many of us grew up on in movies, TV and books. We, largely, want to be a part of the accepted and acceptable, we want to know our place and to fit into it. We have allowed our school system to be take over by the Woke who teach our children to be LGBT and all the other alphabet soup, we teach our children that socialism/communism is the "fair" political system. Despite all the evidence that biologically there are two genders we teach them to pretend they can be what ever their imagination or sexual fantasies, regardless how perverted from either evolution or God's design, they want to be. Then we wonder why we are where we are as a nation and culture.
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Given God's feelings in both the NT and OT regarding the misuse of our bodies like this, I just cannot consider willful living this kind of lifestyle being Christian. Mocking God is more like it. God loves all His creation, but He does not embrace or support their sinful ways. I blame a lot of this confusion the younger folks have on the indoctrination centers called public schools. Not just that, but the mental health profession has also had a hand in a lot of this problem as well.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/16/2022 10:17:54 AM (No. 1073532)
It is not possible to ban all religion in education or public life... because even imposing the lack of an official religion is itself the establishment of a religion by default (atheism, nihilism, hedonism, universalism, secular humanism, etc. etc. etc.).
The only real choice to be made is which religion will be 'official.'
I suggest it is well past time for America to reimpose Christianity, the religion that made it the beacon of freedom and prosperity for the entire world... and stop this insane cultural experiment with sexual insanity.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/16/2022 10:25:16 AM (No. 1073542)
Remember what the acronym means!
"LGBTQ" really means
"Let's
Get
Biden
To
Quit!"
..... and if there's a '+' tacked onto the end, it means
"And take Heels-Up With You! She Goes TOO!"
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/16/2022 10:36:20 AM (No. 1073564)
Guessing this is what get the most focus in public schools. Too bad the same amount of focus isn't being put on real life skills.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/16/2022 11:02:18 AM (No. 1073593)
What a great term for the gender confused..."alphabet soup"...I'm sure the poll numbers are trying to grab your eye into reading it...but..I think it's all a hype to sell the marxist program of pitting one group against the other...I really don't care who sleeps with who...and I'm not shocked that aoc is an idiot and a general is seeing a shrink...I'm an ordinary American...who loves her country and is living a good life thanks to the generation before me...my sainted mother said..."each generation stands on the shoulders of the preceding generation"...and MY children stood on my shoulders and became very successful...thanks to private Christian schools...cleaned out my bank account...but it was worth it....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/16/2022 11:20:25 AM (No. 1073622)
Don't get overwrought by any described LGBTQ movement. The actual number of people is a tiny minority that contributes no money, elects no leaders, and is not politically active. How the left takes over everything. They put community organizers in front of the press and politicians claiming to represent groups. They are similar to Ray Krepps leading the way. Leftist infiltrators. A few follow along, not because of any support, but because they are detached, and curious, like the J6er's. The left takes over everything by these types of measures. As for todays youth, there a lot of good youth. There are a lot of wonderful parents. Times are changing. Boy and girl roles are no longer rigidly black and white. Women are police, men are nurses. Some people are discovering electing women to public office is not going to save the world. Men and women can be equally bad. In any case, roles have changed, and the world is changing. It will work out. I hope women will reject the tattoo's. It can't come soon enough. In short, those LGBTQ leaders are communist organizers of the Ray Krepps variety, and there is no 40% of youth in any movement. That is all another fraud.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
columba 2/16/2022 11:24:58 AM (No. 1073626)
God made two sexes only.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DVC 2/16/2022 11:25:25 AM (No. 1073628)
Because they are lunatics, literally unhinged from reality. And people tell them that it is "cool" to be alphabet nutso. Young people are desperate to be "cool".
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/16/2022 11:32:09 AM (No. 1073632)
Today it is fashionable and the easy way to go for the Generation X generation folks with “cowardly genes” to identify as being somehow connected to the LGBTQ crowd, so what do you expect?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Laotzu 2/16/2022 11:50:14 AM (No. 1073648)
Advertising works.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Krause 2/16/2022 2:18:44 PM (No. 1073776)
Hopefully there’ll be enough actual adults around to protect these namby pambys.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Ladylonglegs 2/16/2022 2:58:05 PM (No. 1073804)
The author's first mistake was to believe these statistics from a phony, fake, fraudulent media outlet like Newsweek, are actually credible. They lie about everything in an effort to get those of us who remain skeptical, to recognize we might be responsible for these events. Are we supposed to feel guilty just because they imply so? Although all in all, it's total crap. As an example: the mainstream media keeps touting 'statistics' that white Caucasians constitute 62% of the American population (these are specific numbers I've heard & read). Other articles I've read say minorities (Black, Asian & Hispanic) when added up, constitute less than 20% of the US population. How is this possible when 100% is the final goal? It isn't. Apparently, the media believes us to be stupid & we can't add or subtract the numbers. It's an out & out lie. Period. It's been my understanding hated white people in America constitute more than 70% of our population. Why would they lie? Touting collective guilt to make stupid white folk feel responsible & so that we back off from calling them out on the lies they continue to tell us. Indoctrination is quite nasty & when seen, quite ugly.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/16/2022 3:01:18 PM (No. 1073810)
Every homosexual claims, "Everyone is a latent homosexual!" That is basic "Projection" and illustrative of a delusion. This is why homos get the crap beat out of them when they mistake human kindness/manors for a willingness to queer around.
If homosexuality were "normal" there'd be some who choose to remain "virgins," until married.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
starboard 2/16/2022 3:31:14 PM (No. 1073837)
Believe it..!!
The School Teachers Union has been poisoning our grandchildren quietly for years. I've seen it first hand. I used to pick up my granddaughter and her friend from high school, which also was a charter school. One day on the way home, they were talking about learning that there were 30 new genders. WHAT! The evil forces that have infiltrated our schools are being paid to twist the minds of children and doing it with impunity. Parents found out about what their little darlings were learning by watching, seeing and hearing them being home schooled during the pandemic. It may have been a blessing in disguise.
My granddaughter graduated from HS in 2020. She survived this poisoning and fortunately was not been effected but has suffered knowing her friend is thinking about transitioning. She is nineteen years old and these feminazi teachers have done a good job in destroying this girl. It makes me sick to think that Americans have unknowingly let this happen right before their eyes. In an ugly way, the pandemic has revealed a lot and the American people have paid a heavy price for it.
History is not taught anymore. Instead it has been replaced with limitless transgender study.
Eliminating the Dept of Education and the Evil School Teachers Union from the federal government should be some of Trump's top priorities, when he is reelected to the White House. Plus, he can assist in getting School Choice approved. If I was a young mother today, I would not send my children to any public school without of those changes being made.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/17/2022 7:42:24 AM (No. 1074261)
Another GREAT DEPRESSION will straighten things out--
The Great Reset is in the works and has been ever since Nobama was elected in landslides because the Republicans put RINOs at the top of the ticket. No more "its their turn" candidates for me!
Somewhere in the mid-1950s more persons were living in the city than on the farm, and have NO IDEA of "hard living". Now we have all of this nonsense of "metrosexuals" and neutered men with 'man buns' and little character. This latest generation of kids has gone way off from John Wayne to way off from even Pee Wee Herman!
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