A Martian who visited modern America today might well think that half the population was homosexual-and the other half wished it were.
This is bizarre, especially when you look at the actual statistics which show that as few as 2% of the general population identify themselves as “gay.”
Writing last month in USA Today, conservative radio host Michael Medved noted, “UCLA's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy offered a new estimate of homosexual identification: concluding that 1.7% of Americans say they're gay, and a slightly larger group (1.8%) identified as bisexual....”
Despite the small numbers (and Medved cites a different study that puts the number at only 1.4%), this issue seems front and center everywhere.
When The Flintstones theme first crowed, “we’ll have a gay, old time,” it would have been difficult to imagine how the meaning of that phrase has changed to a cultural phenomenon sweeping the nation.
June might have been the wedding month of yesteryear, but this month the president declared, “NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” [Emphasis his]
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