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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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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.



The authors of the constitution didn't know about a lot of things.

Many things have changed and more will change in the future.
 
In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

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.

Well, I brought donuts into the office this morning. Based on a survey of my immediate surroundings, I'd say everyone is happy as a clams. Can I say 100% of the people in my office right now are gay?
 
In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

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.

Are you including all those who have disordered desires exclusively for their own sex, or only to those who actually act on their desires and engage in perverted acts?
 
In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

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.
The most recent Gallup poll ( Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT ) presents that 3.4% identify as L,G,B, and T in total.

Considering the private nature of this poll and the current media fame given the oxymoronic "gay marriage" flap, the "in the closet factor" couldn't be more than half this number, or another 1.7% at most.

Thus, at most, I'd estimate about 5 percent of the population identify as L,G,B, and T in total, with about a quarter of that identifying as L or G (B being the largest group), or about 1.25 percent of the population is L or G in total.

This is in keeping with what we'd expect from any specific abnormally occurring and problematic gestational etiology, which most always maxes out at about 6 percent occurrence per, some maxing out under 6 percent occurrence per.

What's interesting in the poll is that the percentage occurrence for Black, Hispanic, and Asian is considerably proportionally higher than for Non-Hispanic White.

But that makes sense, not because the former three are more likely to be "honest" about it in a poll than the latter one, but because it makes total sense that there'd be a higher occurrence in minority populations due to lower economic conditions which thus creates higher stress, specific biological reaction to higher stress in the mother being scientifically implicated as the gestational epigenetic cause of LGBT in the offspring.
 
Jesus's words aren't law in the USA.

Which, if you think about it, is actually kind of a pity. The words I've always heard attributed to Jesus are almost invariably messages of inclusion, tolerance, and restraint from the rush to judgment.
 
In my estimation, I have no idea nor do I much care?

As long as same-sex lovers leave me a few opposite-sex loving ladies that will find me appealing and vice versa, they can be 90% of the population for all I care.
 
Which, if you think about it, is actually kind of a pity. The words I've always heard attributed to Jesus are almost invariably messages of inclusion, tolerance, and restraint from the rush to judgment.
I'm sorry, but we have no room for inclusion, tolerance, restraint from rushing to judgment in modern society.
 
For my part I'm going with roughly 10%. Although the country is nothing like how I remember growing up in the eighties, I'm almost entirely certain that the negative atmosphere is still great enough to prevent a significant portion of gays from self identifying.

Hold on. If I want to choose 10%, though, do I vote for 6-10% or 10-15%?
 
I'm sorry, but
we have no room for inclusion, tolerance, restraint from rushing to judgment in modern society.






Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe that any of those words are in the U.S. Constitution.

Maybe we should put them there, eh?
 
In your estimation, what percentage of the population is gay?

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.

If I quota my friends about 50% are something other than strictly straight but maybe four of them would identify as gay. Most would say they are looking for an emotional connection and gender isn't that important
 
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,

That was going to be my point.

Every new show made has gays and interracial couples. it is looking like it is a requirement to get the show on the air now.

The Hollywood crowd definitely thinks the percentage is much higher than it actually is.
 
2-4% for straight up gay folks, I suppose. I'd imagine that the entirety of American citizens of a LGBT sexual orientation would be at most 10%, though with bi-curious type folks, maybe cap it off at 15%.
 
I didn't vote.

That kind of information would have to come from a scientifically and statistically created/controlled poll or research....and since no one can tell if someone is gay by looking at them (it's a joke if people think they can always or even often tell)...an individual really cant do anymore than 'guess.' And I'd bet that that guess was heavily colored by their personal bias. Just IMO.
 
That was going to be my point.

Every new show made has gays and interracial couples. it is looking like it is a requirement to get the show on the air now.

The Hollywood crowd definitely thinks the percentage is much higher than it actually is.

It creates more fodder for topics, stories, controversy, etc.in the program's scripts.
 
A few people on this forum can't.

I can't either. Some homosexual men became homosexual men because they were sodomized as a child by an adult.

The gay numbers can shrink if we institute the death penalty for male on male statutory rape. I firmly believe that.

The gay numbers can grow if we encourage men to manipulate young boys in a vulnerable position to engage in sex with them.

They are separate issues but it is aggravating that homosexuals can be recruited as children.
 
The reason I have for voting 0.1% - 2% is that almost no one is 100% gay or 100% straight. (The question was worded in a way that only 100% gay individuals could be considered.)

Strictly speaking, almost everyone is bisexual, with about half leaning straight and the other half leaning gay - both to various degrees. The only reason we appear to have a more heterosexual population is that most people learn to ignore or even suppress their gay tendencies. I suspect it will be a long time before that aspect of social conditioning changes much.
 
privilege to marry...

we need to stop calling privileges under the Constitution....rights.

A difference that's irrelevant to ssm becoming legal in all fifty states.
 
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