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1 jamesfirecat  Thu, May 24, 2012 5:02:24pm

Wait, “tiny two percent” isn’t homosexuality closer to being around 10% of the population?

2 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, May 24, 2012 5:10:41pm

PENISES EVERYWHERE OH GOD SAVE US WHITE JESUS

3 dragonfire1981  Thu, May 24, 2012 6:05:26pm

Here’s where Fischer is getting his numbers from

How many gay men and lesbians are there in the United States? Gary Gates has an idea but acknowledges pinpointing a solid figure remains an elusive task.

Gates is demographer-in-residence at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles. For the institute’s 10th anniversary this week, he took a scholarly stab at answering the question that has been debated, avoided, parsed and proven both insoluble and political since pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey said in the 1940s that 10 percent of the men he surveyed were “predominantly homosexual.”

Gates’ best estimate, derived from five studies that have asked subjects about their sexual orientation, is that the nation has about 4 million adults who identify as being gay or lesbian, representing 1.7 percent of the 18-and-over population.

4 jhncsy  Thu, May 24, 2012 6:31:33pm

“Are they truly willing to risk the future of their political party by cravenly capitulating to a whiny, noisy, hateful and demanding sliver of the American people? “

Well, when he’s right, he’s right.

5 Dark_Falcon  Thu, May 24, 2012 8:53:18pm

re: #1 jamesfirecat

Wait, “tiny two percent” isn’t homosexuality closer to being around 10% of the population?

Actually, no. Kinsey inflated his figures by about double. Homosexuality is really more like 5% of the population (though the percentage does depend on how you define homosexuality). That having been said, Fischer is still doing a deliberate and dishonest underestimate.

6 Kragar  Thu, May 24, 2012 9:06:59pm

See, now when Bryan said “Are they truly willing to risk the future of their political party by cravenly capitulating to a whiny, noisy, hateful and demanding sliver of the American people? “ I keep thinking he’s talking about the Evangelical’s influence on the GOP.

7 Kruk  Fri, May 25, 2012 2:41:07am

re: #5 Dark_Falcon

Actually, no. Kinsey inflated his figures by about double. Homosexuality is really more like 5% of the population (though the percentage does depend on how you define homosexuality). That having been said, Fischer is still doing a deliberate and dishonest underestimate.

Maybe Kinsey was just adjusting for the self-hating ant-gay Republicans hiding in the closet. An not insignifican adjustment, I’d imagine.

8 nines09  Fri, May 25, 2012 4:07:21am

Can’t see the trees for the forest.

9 HappyWarrior  Fri, May 25, 2012 6:14:34am

Purity uber alles eh Bry?


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