The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins tells NPR that gay teens know they are “abnormal,” which makes them suicidal:

Tony Perkins, president of the evangelical Family Research Council, says gay activists are exploiting the concern over bullying — and twisting the facts.

“There’s no correlation between inacceptance of homosexuality and depression and suicide,” he says.

Rather, Perkins says, there is another factor that leads kids to kill themselves.

“These young people who identify as gay or lesbian, we know from the social science that they have a higher propensity to depression or suicide because of that internal conflict.”

Homosexuality is “abnormal,” he says, and kids know it, which leads them to despair. That’s why he wants to confront gay activism in public schools. For example, his group supports the Day of Truth, when Christian high schoolers make their case that homosexuality is a sin.