Comments on: Dishonesty about the ‘how many LGBTs’ study

By: Gnasher

Gnasher — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:24:46 +0000

Be counted, then what??? ‘Ahuh there is an increase in glbt, let’s build more bars & hospitals!’
Leave us alone!!

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:03:48 +0000

Lucrece, my analysis is coming… it contains some of the same objections as Blaze but from a different perspective.

Sam, aha! So Montana is that elusive place where the water turns you gay.

;)

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:08:03 +0000

Growing up in rural Montana in the 70′s I thought I was the only gay kid in the world. But years later I find that of my graduating class of 16 kids, 3 of the boys including me are gay, and at least one other boy is gay or bi and another boy who moved away the year before graduating was very gay. That’s about 25% and probably pretty unusual. Or is it? I’ve not heard of anyone else from my hometown, but everyone moves away if they don’t fit in and you never hear of them again.

By: enough already

enough already — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:38:14 +0000

I would save one single Jew among all of us would be reason enough to demand their full and equal treatment as humans and with absolute respect of their civil rights.

We’ve been down that road before. We know where it ends. Right about 20 minutes walk from my home in Germany, actually, at a former concentration camp.

Civil and human rights must never depend on the number of humans with those characteristics. By virtue of being human, we are imbued with these rights.

By: Lucrece

Lucrece — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:21:01 +0000

Alex Blaze at Bilerico gave the report some pretty good treatment.

These studies are meaningless until we live in a society where universally homosexuals aren’t stigmatized or have little reason to conceal their relations.

And even then the issue of identification comes up. Some people will simply not accept gay or homosexual. Some will be men who sleep with men, same-gender loving men, queer men, and the list goes on. In this generation some youth are even refusing labels.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:58:17 +0000

gar, even the SF Chronical is misreporting the figure?! That’s terrible. I would expect it from a conservative town like SD.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:44:19 +0000

Doing a very quick search gave the result that in the US population aprox. 2.2% are Jewish. Would anyone claim that this sector of the American people is somehow insignificant?

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:38:28 +0000

So uh, what percentage of the population do we have to be before we are deemed significant enough to deserve equality? Is there a magic number?

By: gar

gar — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:21:18 +0000

Not surprisingly, this is the same spin that American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer put on the report. Perhaps they share the same motivation.

I’m sure they share the same motivation. When I read the story in the Oakland Tribune (or maybe it was the online SF Chronicle), I thought “really? 4 million? That sounds awfully low.”

Minimize to belittle, an old story.