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I'd check your statistics and how the question was phrased. That 10-20% comes from those who admit to having a same sex experience. Not necessarily identifying as gay. (LGBT = about 3.8% of the population.)
And to address the OP, I live Indiana. In a small(ish) town. I see gay people every day. I see them holding hands in our downtown square. Or walking down the street. Or shopping for groceries.
Nobody does a double take or bats an eye.
No big deal.
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The demographics of sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States have come to light in the social sciences in recent decades. In the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation, the NHIS reported in July 2014 that 1.6 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent considered themselves bisexual.[1] In a Williams Institute review based on an June-September 2012 Gallup poll, approximately 3.4 percent of American adults identify themselves as being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender).[2] An earlier report published in April 2011 by the Williams Institute estimated that 3.8 percent of Americans identified as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender: 1.7 percent as lesbian or gay, 1.8 percent as bisexual, and 0.3 percent as transgender.[3] The 2011 Williams Institute report also states that 8.2 percent of Americans reported that they had engaged in same-sex sexual behavior, and 11 percent reported some same-sex attraction. Studies from several nations, including the U.S., conducted at varying time periods, have produced a statistical range of 1.2 to 5.6 percent of the adult population identifying as LGBT.[3] Online surveys tend to yield higher figures than other methods,[4] a likely result of the higher degree of anonymity of Internet surveys, which elicit reduced levels of socially desirable responding.[5]
I find it weird and creepy that there was a time when owning another person was considered normal;
I find it weird and creepy that there was a time when a parent could determine who their children married and this was considered normal;
I find it weird and creepy that there was a time when a woman couldn't own property, and that was considered normal;
I find it weird and creepy that there was a time when a woman couldn't vote, and that was considered normal;
I'm 27 and think it's "weird" that it took until 2015 for us to catch up with countries like Mexico, French Guiana, and Brasil.
I grew up in the rural south. Few of my peers supported equal marriage in middle and high school, though I don't remember a time when I didn't. A decade later, I saw nothing but positivity scrolling through my former classmates' posts on Facebook. A few of the most virulently anti-gay kids are now in long term, committed same-sex partnerships themselves.
Yes, your children and grandchildren will think it was weird and immature of you to try to legislate based on your specific religious beliefs.
" A few of the most virulently anti-gay kids are now in long term, committed same-sex partnerships themselves. "
That would credibility to those that say those who are the most Anti-gay are really gay
Probably one of the biggest changes is in the military. Even as Obama's approval rating among our troops has dropped to a historical low, 15%, their attitude towards Gays serving is at a high
"A Military Times poll in 2009 found 35 percent of troops felt that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve in uniform. Five years later, that figure has jumped to 60 percent."
Even today some kids think interracial marriage is weird even though it's almost an order of magnitude more common than gay marriage ever will be (judging by the LGB percent vs. percent of new marriages that are interracial*), it's been legal nationwide for over 50 years, legal in some states for centuries, and people have been shamed for saying it should be illegal for the past few decades. Support among the current crop of kids for removing legal status for interracial marriages is slim, but nevertheless a lot of them could understand why someone would want criminalization even if they detest the concept. I don't know if that would count as "thinking it's weird" or not.
The consensus among the youth is that one's sexual orientation shouldn't matter in society, and that includes marriage; it doesn't mean that they embrace or even personally approve of homosexuality, view it as normal, or can't comprehend why anyone would have a problem with it. There is a certain segment that can't comprehend having a problem with gayness and embrace it (and a certain segment that are anti-gay, let's not forget), but what puts gay marriage over the top among the youth is those that harbor the "your sordid affairs shouldn't be anyone else's business" attitude. In few words, the youth consensus is not so much "gay pride!" as "live and let live".
*Although that includes Anglo-Latino marriages, one of the most common kinds, which aren't exactly interracial; even without that it's still far more common than same-sex marriage ever will be.
My kids think homosexual relationships and marriages are creepy. Of course, I have normal, well-adjusted children that don't buy into the militant left and homosexual blathering. They understand that sexual relationships between the same sex are abnormal. And no matter how the law was re-written to allow homosexuals to marry, most people, even if they accept that it's now legal, know that it's a perversion. They always have, they always will.
Are oral and anal sex between straight couples also perversions?
Speak for yourself. I know no such thing. I can think of few things more creepy or perverted than being forced into a legal sexual union with someone you don't desire, as happened in the past - and some people apparently still think that's OK - and few things more cruel than denying someone who wants the chance to marry someone they love.
They can be with whomever or whatever they want, but marriage is between a man and a woman. Nothing has changed.
Same reason young people now think its weird black people had to use different restrooms and drinking fountains than white people. Conservatives are slow witted troglodytes unable to comprehend that their own stupidity and lack of logic are not normal. Basically, stupid people never know that they're stupid. The smartest people are aware that they do not know everything that can be known, unlike conservatives who believe the Bible, Rush and FOX News are the complete repository of the world's knowledge.
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