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NPR Fresh Air: The New Apostolic Reformation

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Kragar8/25/2011 4:26:56 pm PDT

I’m guessing the Apostle’s won’t like this one bit:

Gay Couples Spread in U.S., Behave Like Straight Couples

The new Census Bureau data, finalized this week, shows the numbers of gay couples in America has jumped by half in the past decade to 901,997.

Sixty percent are female, and 22 percent are raising children, according to the report.

In other words, the 2010 Census shows an all-time high of people self-identifying as members of cohabitating same-sex couples.

According to the research, many same-sex couples are doing something straight couples have been doing for generations: getting older, having kids, and moving to the suburbs.

These trends, both the spread of gay people living openly, and of gay populations mirroring trends in the straight population, are playing out nationwide.