With the point

point, and a commentary last week I discussed the tragic popularity of the new

988 National Suicide Hotline.

Dramatic spikes in suicides and suicides and suicidality make this kind of intervention and others like it necessary to prevent people from making an irreversible decision.

I'm thankful, however, that Friends at the Restored Hope Network let me know that the hotline directs those who identify as

LGBTQ to the Trevor Project, a radical advocacy group whose aim is to push young

people towards sexual confusion. In this way the new hotline is undermining its own ends.

Teens who identify as LGBTQ are four times more likely to contemplate and attempt suicide

and more likely to struggle with other mental illnesses.

The Trevor Project claims this is due to stigma, not mental illness,

but that assertion doesn't make any sense. The suicide rate has continued to rise even as cultural

acceptance of LGBTQ ideology and identity has.

Look, Christians have to take the lead in suicide prevention.

To learn how, go to ColsonCenter.org

slash Hope Always.

That's ColsonCenter.org, slash Hope Always.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.