Based on the 2013 NHIS data [collected in 2013 from 34,557 adults aged 18 and over], 96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual. The remaining 1.1% of adults identified as “something else[]” [0.2%,] stated “I don’t know the answer[]” [0.4%] or refused to provide an answer [0.6%].
More specifically, 1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual.
Who is hysterical over marriage equality?
U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian
Those with lower incomes, the less educated, women, and young people give the highest estimates
Even if the "less educated" were right, marriage equality does not impact their lives, so why do they care? Why do they want Big Government to control the lives of these people?
What about politicians? Surely they know their monstrous bills making discrimination legal would affect only 5% of the population, so why do they harp on it?
My own opinion is that RW politicians pander to the fundie nutters because they figure they'll only lose that 5% of the vote.
What about posters here? Why do they get so hysterical over 5% of the population? Why do they want to deny them the same rights the rest of us enjoy?
Why did the LW politicitians vote against ghey marriage for hundreds of years? What changed?
hey dumbshit gay marriage was not even an "thing" for hundreds of years.
It only became an issue in the last 50 or so years.
besides lots of gay and lesbian couples were secretly married.
state or religious sanctioning is only a formality.
why did grown men marry children for thousands OF YEARS ?
What percentage of children being intentionally denied the human right to be raised by their actual parents is OK with you? Why should everyone be forced to subsidize these people if their numbers are so irrelevant?
Such a low percentage of males are homo yet they spread the most STD's by far.
Why such a loud and large representation in the public sphere if the numbers are so low? Why should they be so heavily propagated if their numbers are so irrelevant?
Your excuses to discriminate against gay people are pathetic, hypocritical and very old lies that have been disproved years ago.
I tried to read your post but couldn't get past the lie and garbage in the first sentence.
Adopted children aren't raised with their ACTUAL parents as you describe it. An actual parent doesn't have to share dna with the child. The person who loves the child and guides it to adulthood, the person who puts the child's needs before the adult's own wants is the ACTUAL parent. The person who sat up nights when the child was sick is the ACTUAL parent.
Children whose parent or both parents have died aren't raised by the ACTUAL parents.
Children whose parents have divorced aren't raised by both of the ACTUAL parents.
Children who are in a foster home aren't raised by the ACTUAL parents.
Yet you have no problem with those situations. Just a situation that includes gay people.
You have no right to tell anyone how to raise their child as long as they aren't breaking the law. The government has no business getting involved with any family that's not breaking the law. You and those like you scream you want a smaller and unobtrusive government but your actions say the exact opposite. You want a big government nanny to tell everyone how to live, how to raise their kids, who they can marry and to force women to carry a pregnancy against her will.
Stop lying and trying to use innocent children that you don't know and never met to excuse your homophobia, bigotry and wanting to discriminate against your fellow Americans. You don't give a damn about any child beyond maybe your own. So cut the garbage and lies.
When I see you post that you don't want cuts in food stamps, after school programs, schools and other services that children need then I'll start to believe you have any concern for anyone else's child.
Right now, you're just another homophobe liar. Using innocent children to excuse your own hate and bigotry has to be one of the lowest things I've seen from a conservative yet.