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In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

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Fiddytree said:
Stand up for their religion, please. :roll: They use the platitudes of the wisdom of the masses to justify using the democratic process to squash the protection of a minority they displease due to their religious sympathies, yet cannot be bothered to establish State churches.
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Then let gays stay away from pastors and ministers that stand on their faith when it comes to marriage. Jesus said marriage was a man and a woman`
 
ptif219 said:
You want laws changed and you want voters votes on constitutional amendments to not count
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No, we want the 14th amendment of the US Constitution to actually be enforced.
 
100%. Or rather, 0% as the OP only addresses people who are completely straight or completely gay. The Kinsey scale is definitely far more correct than the idea of a binary coding. Everybody is somewhere between the two extremes.
 
ptif219 said:
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There is no right to marriage in the constitution. That means there is no link to a website that asserts that there is a right to marriage granted in the constitution.

When the constitution was written in the late 1700's marriage wasn't a concern of the government. Marriages were granted by churches. State issued marriage licenses didn't become a function of government until the early 1900's. The authors of the constitution had no idea that such a thing would ever be considered.
 
ptif219 said:
Is it a right when the government makes you buy a license?
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Debatable. Legal recognition may be considered to be a right. If it is a privilege, then it is a right, which a democratic majority of the various states has denied to a minority group, whereas one of the purposes of republicanism is to ensure minority rights are not trampled by democratic majorities.

My point was more in regards to the rights subsequent to such a legal recognition...visitation, inheritance, etc.
 
ptif219 said:
Is it a right when the government makes you buy a license?
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That is a good point that I often bring up concerning the 2A. If your property may be taken by the gov't (if you fail to pay the tax annually assessed on it) do you really own it? As it applies to the SSM issue the point is moot because only some folks, that have such a marriage license, are being denied service at the Idaho business.
 
ptif219 said:
You mean you want to pervert the constitution to get special laws and special rights
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No, I mean I want the 14th amendment of the US Constitution to actually be enforced. Gays have the constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
 
If you watch Hollywood productions it seems like at least 20% of America is gay. Of course that may be true in Hollyweird but not in real America,
 
radcen said:
In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?
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I say "...in your estimation" because, as someone else said in another thread, not all gay people are willing to admit it (for reasons of their own), so the best stats we have are most likely incomplete.

Note also, bi-sexual, bi-curious, etc., are not included in the question. Straight (pun only slightly intended :mrgreen:) gay only.
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My guesstimate is that 100% of those who aren't heterosexual are gay.
 
ptif219 said:
There is no reason to give such a small percentage power or special rights
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They don't want power or extra rights. They want eagles with rainbow wings.

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ptif219 said:
There is no reason to give such a small percentage power or special rights
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Let's just give them the same rights that everyone else has, eh?

Is that OK with you?




"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
 
I chose 2-4 percent. It's probably higher but sadly I think a lot of gay people don't feel comfortable acknowledging the fact, and admitting it. That's a shame too. People's bedroom preferences should not be attacked, mocked, belittled or denigrated in any way. I think our sexual preferences are as private as anything we have/do/think.
 
tres borrachos said:
I chose 2-4 percent. It's probably higher but sadly I think a lot of gay people don't feel comfortable acknowledging the fact, and admitting it. That's a shame too. People's bedroom preferences should not be attacked, mocked, belittled or denigrated in any way. I think our sexual preferences are as private as anything we have/do/think.
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Or maybe some don't feel comfortable admitting that they are homosexuals because they can be fired, denied housing, and be legally discriminated against in the marketplace, not to mention be targeted for verbal and physical violence.
 
wolfsgirl said:
Or maybe some don't feel comfortable admitting that they are homosexuals because they can be fired, denied housing, and be legally discriminated against in the marketplace, not to mention be targeted for verbal and physical violence.
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I never said anything otherwise.
 
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