I was recently exposed to a feminist liberal who said that
roughly 10% of the US population is gay.
Oh really?
Before we delve into the statistics, I want to repeat something
that I’ve often said. The problem with the
average far left leaner you’re likely to meet on the street is that they
function under a reality as they’d like it to be rather than reality as it
actually is. Rather than collecting
data, applying logic, then coming to a conclusion, they—the person who leans to
the left because to do otherwise is uncool and closed minded, man—emotes first,
thinks never. Forget the data, ten
percent just feels right.
Prior to the 2010 census, no census data was gathered
regarding the sexual orientation of our population. Sometime around 2007 or 2008, I scrounged
around for some data and roughly calculated that about 2 to 3 percent of the
population identified as homosexual.
Now, the 2010 census snapshot for the LGBT
community shows that in the in the areas most densely populated with homosexuals,
somewhere between 9 and 27 per 1000 households identify as homosexual. A quick look at that map of the US and it is
easy to see that the majority of the United States does not fall into the
highest category. Some of the more
populous areas of the US do, but that observation is irrelevant because the
maximum would be that 2.7% of the US population is gay. Because population density isn’t equally
distributed, it’s likely that the actual number is significantly less.
A Huffington Post article estimated that about 1.7% of the
18 and over population is gay.
Either set of data ballparks the actual percentage of
homosexuals in this country at significantly less than the asinine 10%.
I do want to point out that I simply do not care whether
someone is gay or not. What consenting
adults do in the privacy of their residence (emphasis on the privacy for every
orientation) is up to them. I also
support gay marriage. If marriage is not
a religious institution, then religions cannot monopolize it. If marriage is a religious institution, than
subscribers to any religion or set of beliefs from atheism to Zoroastrianism
should have the right to marry whomever they choose. I also want to point out that the percentage
of homosexuals in my circle of friends is significantly higher than the
national percentage.
My beef here is not
with homosexuals, just with people making baseless claims.
27% of the people who read this are illitarrate.
ReplyDelete0% of the people who've read this are illiterate. Emote first, think never. You must be one of those liberals I mentioned.
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