The article says that, with this new smaller estimate, the gay political force is lessened which means less votes, which means less attention from politicians and Obama & Co, which means they're just regular people and not special. My question is, how did 1.6% get such a loud voice to begin with?

Quote:That would mean the total number of gays in American is roughly 3.8 million, roughly 1.5 million less than the total number of American Methodists.

Scout, who goes by one name, a spokesman for CenterLink's Network of LGBT Health Equity, told the Washington Post, "The truth is, numbers matter, and political influence matters."

Most Americans believe the population of gays is exponentially larger. For almost half a century, Americans believed a number produced by disgraced sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, who claimed 10% of the population was gay. In recent years, Gallup found that a majority of adults believe the percentage of gays in the population is 25%. The same poll found younger people put the figure at 30%.

Ellyn Ruthstrom, president of the Bi-Sexual Resource Center in Boston, said, "It's just going to make it harder for us when we're going out and talking to people about the bisexual population. We have a real hard time already with people not taking the bisexual identity seriously."

The CDC defends its survey, explaining the current survey polled 35,000 adults. The CDC's National Center on Health Statistics told the Washington Post they "conducted rigorous tests to come up with the questions and interview method. They conducted more than 100 in-depth interviews—far more than is typical—and did three field tests, including one in which they experimented with a more private interview method that allowed respondents to listen to questions using headphones and type their answers into a computer." James Dahlhamer, a health statistician with the CDC, told the Post there was no difference in the results using the two methods.

WaPo reports that "CDC is investigating why its figures, particularly for bisexuals, differ from those in the other surveys."


Gays are the new 1 percenters

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING....HOW DID SO FEW GET SUCH A LOUD VOICE!

One percenters always get their way.

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I don't care if it's 99% or 1%

The size of a group of people is no excuse to say that they should not have the same legal protections that everyone else has.

(08-05-2014 09:43 PM)john01992 Wrote:  I don't care if it's 99% or 1%

The size of a group of people is no excuse to say that they should not have the same legal protections that everyone else has.

Who mentioned legal protections? This article is about political clout and being taken seriously.

(08-05-2014 09:49 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(08-05-2014 09:43 PM)john01992 Wrote:  I don't care if it's 99% or 1%

The size of a group of people is no excuse to say that they should not have the same legal protections that everyone else has.

Who mentioned legal protections? This article is about political clout and being taken seriously.

And a large percentage of Americans think they should be given the same legal protection hence the reason LGBT have so much more political clout than they did in the past.

(08-05-2014 09:49 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(08-05-2014 09:43 PM)john01992 Wrote:  I don't care if it's 99% or 1%

The size of a group of people is no excuse to say that they should not have the same legal protections that everyone else has.

Who mentioned legal protections? This article is about political clout and being taken seriously.

Jews are 2.2% and have the most clout of anyone.

Not only have we had this discussion before:

http://csnbbs.com/thread-695101.html

It's just another example of gay threads being made by conservatives...over...and over...and over...

It doesn't have to be a big group to make a meaningful movement. You just need haters, which in turn bring even more supporters.

Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

(08-05-2014 09:58 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

Good point.

(08-05-2014 09:58 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

California has a Harvey Milk day and a gay curriculum in schools. So why don't they tell us?

It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

~Samuel Adams

So if you don't count all of the gay characters and situations presented to us by the entertainment industry that percentage would probably drop to 1%.

That's comforting to know that only 1.6% are abnormal with regards to human nature. The troubling part is the percentage of enablers that give these freaks a voice.


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(08-05-2014 10:34 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  It does not take a majority to prevail...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

~Samuel Adams

I've heard gays called a lot of things, but never angry arsonists.

(08-05-2014 09:54 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Not only have we had this discussion before:

http://csnbbs.com/thread-695101.html

It's just another example of gay threads being made by conservatives...over...and over...and over...

Oh man, you went and did it again, posting a response on a 'gay' thread! Perhaps one day, a 'gay' thread will be started and UofMemphis WON'T comment on it. Perhaps.

(08-05-2014 09:59 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(08-05-2014 09:58 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

Good point.

This coward wouldn't know what a good point was, even if it walked up and shook his hand.

(08-05-2014 09:58 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

Behind closed doors ?

(08-06-2014 05:56 AM)ODU BLUE Wrote:  

(08-05-2014 09:58 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  Why are so many people obsessed with what 1.6% of the US population does behind close doors or who they marry?

Behind closed doors ?