Each year, thousands of young people across the country become runaways, and gay youth account for a disproportionate share of the homeless youth population. Although gay individuals only make-up about 2% of the population, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, they account for up to 40% of the runaway and homeless youth population. The official take on this data, from the Administration, is that: “despite the tremendous strides the LGBTQ community has made towards equality, the community still suffers from a tremendous amount of societal discrimination.” Their answer: more legislation, more special protections, and more “education” in our schools. In reality, the question of youth is still a rather modern phenomenon, with its clearest emergence in the 1950s; epitomized by the angry American teenager as portrayed by James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause.” But, then, it was matter of children acting out their isolation and lack of familial love, in an increasingly commercialized and secular world, by smoking, drinking, and staying out too late. As these disenfranchised children grew up, had children of their own, and then grandchildren, and eventually great grandchildren, the dysfunction was passed on, spread, and intensified. Now, children are not just raised in cold and apathetic households, but also ones in which there exists divorce, abuse, and neglect. Therefore, these wounded kids act out in more violent and sexual patterns: mirroring the culture’s oversaturation of sadistic entertainment and pornography. A kid getting caught with a cigarette wouldn’t phase many contemporary parents. Most likely, they would thank God that it wasn’t Crack or Meth. And, sadly, the swerve towards extremes in promiscuity and homosexuality are also not particularly earth-shattering. The only course left: to run away. There, many fall victim to human traffickers, pimps, and pornographers. Because, the current cultural breakdown - feeds the growing need, among the sick and shattered, for an endless supply of satanic distractions.
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