Regarding .6% of the population.
The amount of time and attention given this election cycle to trashing the issue of equal legal protection of gays is staggering given that the gay community comprise only .6 percent of the entire population. That is a figure a fraction of what the national unemployment rate is. That is below what is frequently cited as the rate of homosexuality in the animal kingdom which has been pegged at about 10 percent of any given species. POINT SIX PERCENT.
Only five counties in the country have gay households pegged at over ten percent which include places like West Hollywood, San Francisco's Castro District and certain totally gay enclaves of Massachusetts. Washington, DC does not have a gay household ratio over ten percent. It doesn't even rank in the top ten highest gay communities in the country.
But this was a such a pillar of at least one Republican campaign that it started a new fad- glitter bombing-- Tossing glitter on the suit of a bloviating politician who was assaulting the civic dignity of gayness. The Archdiocese of Washington cancelled ALL adoptions-its entire adoption program because it didn't want to place kids in gay households. It cancelled ALL spousal medical insurance because it lost a legal battle with the District which says if you have gay people working for you who now are legally married under District law you cannot discriminate against their spouses and not give them spousal insurance. The church considers that all priests are in a sense married to the church. Some even wear wedding rings to make the point. So this is all men married to each other essentially for life. They all give each other medical insurance. But rather than recognize non clerical gay marriage they just cancelled ALL straight and non straight medical spousal coverage. Madness.
You cannot turn on your computer without reading another story of a poor kid who took his life because he had been bullied for years for being gay. Emotional torment, fomented by a political culture of abusive insulting rhetoric. Why would anyone 'choose' being gay people lament.
No politician in America is going to win by gay bashing. It is just not necessary to be so malicious to any group of people. People who are gay are more often than not related to siblings and parents who are not and still love them. Some of them have lost siblings or children to AIDS inflicted gay relatives.
They resent deeply things like the catholic church refusing to cover for condoms when a third of them are likely gay and carrying HIV/AIDs viruses at a rate four times greater than the population.
You call that 'religious liberty.' I call it Madness.
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