Thursday, June 04, 2009

This note was in a Focus on The Family email that Steve forwarded to me today.

June Declared 'LGBT Pride Month'
President Barack Obama has proclaimed the month of June 2009 as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." "The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress," Obama states in the official proclamation, "but there is more to be done." The most recent reliable figures, from a study called the "National Health and Social Life Survey" in 1994, found that 2.8 percent of American men and 1.4 percent of American women reported some level of homosexual or bisexual identity. [OneNewsNow.com; Edward O. Laumann, et. al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States, University of Chicago Press, 1994]

No, I am not going to post comments about President Obama. What struck me about the article were the statistics. 2.8 percent of men and 1.4 percent of women report some level of homosexual behavior. Does that surprise anyone else besides me? How does such a small percent of the population have such a loud voice? Unfortunately, I think it is called media.

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