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Mon, 04 October 2010 11:51

chrisjames147

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It was something Benji said, his comment about Street Teens in Las Vegas brought this to mind.

We have been focused on gay teens in high schools, bullied and assaulted until they see no hope in living. But there are children out there in even worse shape whose view of life seems hopeless.

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/911118Arc1054.html

Note the date on this study, it is ten years old. Does anyone believe things have become any better? In bad economic times money for food, shelters and medical care are one of the first things to be shut down, that only makes the problem worse.

Just how a young person becomes homeless, a cast off child from an uncaring and wretched family, I could not tell you. I'm sure the numbers are staggering here in the US alone, but no one counts them, it's as if they don't count at all.

These children are the victims of crime, by bullies, by parents and by strangers who take advantage of their desperation. Some of them are gay, tossed out of their homes for being a less than desireable child.

In all the hatred aimed at gay marriage I can only ask where are the parents of these children? Where does the responsibilty lie for raising these kids to adulthood? Wouldn't they be better off in a loving home even if the foster parents were gay?

62% of these homeless kids have contemplated suicide, that's a staggering number. Wouldn't a parent become an accomplice to the death of their child if they caused it?

I can understand why these children don't seek help from one of the many shelters, most of those are Christian based organizations. Even a child can see the hypocracy in seeking help from the same people who sanctified their parent's marriage and then did nothing to observe the results.

Christian religions need to clean their own houses before focusing their attentions on someone else's business. Marriage is a failed institution, not because of gay people, but because the much touted "one man, one woman" system is broken.

Any parent who throws an underage child out on the street needs to be publicly flogged, maybe not physically, but in the eyes of the community. Those that physically abuse their children should just be shot.

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