Exposed: The Myth That "10% Are Homosexual"

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[Conservative Coulter Fan]

While homosexuals claim they make up 10% of the population, the reality is closer to 1-2%.

A NEWLY RELEASED REPORT from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics reveals that only 2.3% of the population considers themselves homosexual. The statistics come from a 2002 National Survey of Family Growth and are based on 12,571 interviews with men and women ages 15-44 years of age. (The findings were reported in WorldNetDaily, September 16, 2005). According to this survey, only 2.3% of the males surveyed considered themselves to be homosexuals; 1.8% considered themselves to be bisexuals. Among men ages 18-44, 92% said they were attracted “only to females” and 3.9% “mostly” to females. Among women, 86% said they were attracted only to males, and 10% “mostly” to males.

	Reputable journalists, legislators, and other opinion leaders must avoid using this bogus 10% statistic. Those who continue to use this homosexual urban legend should be challenged to prove it with facts-not myths.

Homosexuals Admit 10% Is Wrong

Homosexual activist groups have finally admitted that their claim that 10% of the population is “gay” is false. This admission took place in a Friend of the Court brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2003 in the Lawrence v. Texas, known as the Texas sodomy case. In this case, homosexuals are trying to have the Texas law against sodomy declared unconstitutional by the Court.

In footnote 42 on page 16 of this legal brief, 31 homosexual and pro-homosexual groups admitted the following: “The most widely accepted study of sexual practices in the United States is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS). The NHSLS found that 2.8% of the male, and 1.4% of the female, population identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. See Laumann, et al, The Social Organization of Sex: Sexual Practices in the United States (1994). This amounts to nearly 4 million openly gay men and 2 million women who identify as lesbian.”

Despite this indirect admission that the 10% figure homosexuals have used for more than two decades is wrong, the writers of the brief still continue to lie about the real numbers. The claim that 4 million men and 2 million women are gay is based on multiplying the 2.8% and 1.4% figures by the total number of males and females in the U.S. It is unreasonable to count any of the 60 million Americans who are 14 or younger (including 40 million who are under nine years of age) as “openly gay men and women.” Yet, that is what this brief claims. Even as homosexuals admit they’re wrong about the 10% figure, they apparently still can’t resist lying about their true numbers in our population.

The NHSLS study found that only 0.9% of men and 0.4% of women reported having only same-sexual partners since age 18, a figure that would represent a total of only 1.4 million Americans as homosexual. The truth is that homosexuals used the bogus 10% figure in order to inflate their numbers and their influence.The 10% Urban Legend has been effectively used by homosexuals to recruit children into the homosexual lifestyle and to lobby for legislation to provide special legal protections for homosexuals. Homosexual groups throughout the United States, however, continue to use this bogus 10% figure because it provides them with political power and legitimacy.

Debunking The Urban Legend

What do scientific surveys and studies show about how many homosexuals actually exist? As long ago as the early 1990s, statistics showed that the 10% was false. USA Today, in its April 15, 1993 issue published the following statistics from a Planned Parenthood/Alan Guttmacher Institute study:

• Only 2.3% of males ages 20 to 39 said they had experienced a same-sex relationship in the past decade. Only 1.1% said they were exclusively gay.
  
  
• A 1989 U.S. survey indicated that no more than 6% of adults had any kind of same-sex experience. Less than 1% said they were exclusively gay.
  
  
• A 1992 French study found that only 1.4% of men and 0.4% of women said they had any same-sex contact in the past five years.
  
  
• In 1991, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) provided data indicating that of the 6% who have ever experienced same-sex relations, the number of currently active homosexuals (at that time) was .06-0.7%. The source for this is: T.W. Smith, Planning Perspectives 23, May/June 1991).

The Wall Street Journal shed more light on the 10% urban legend in its March 31, 1993 issue:

• A survey conducted by the Minnesota Adolescent Health Survey (1986-86) of public school students indicated that only 0.6% of boys and 0.2% of girls identified themselves "mostly or 100% homosexual"-which is less than one percent!
  
  
• In Canada, a 1988 survey of first-year college students under 25 indicated that 98% were heterosexual; 1% bisexual; and 1% homosexual. (Source: King, et al. Canada, Youth and AIDS Study, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University.)

Census Figures Show Few Homosexual Households

The 10% figure was drawn from Alfred Kinsey's deliberately dishonest research on human sexuality conducted in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Even Kinsey never declared that 10% of the population claimed to be exclusively homosexual.

The Census 2000 figures show that homosexuals exist in far fewer numbers in our population than homosexual activists would have us believe. Homosexuals used these census figures to claim that the number of same-sex households had experienced an explosive growth during the past ten years. This is untrue. According to Census 2000 figures, there are a total of 106,741,426 households in the U.S., only 00.42% of those are unmarried same-sex households. This is less than one percent. Yet activists claimed that these figures showed a surge in same-sex households since 1990. However, the Census Bureau issued a disclaimer saying that 1990 figures and 2000 figures could not be reconciled because of the different ways the questions were asked in 2000. TVC's report, Lies, Homosexuals, and Census Statistics provides more details about this. It is posted on the TVC web site.

Dr. Mark A. Yarhouse and Dr. Stanton L. Jones have dealt with the 10% urban legend in their book, Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate. They note that the 10% figure originated in the flawed research work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kinsey's work has been criticized not only for his use of pedophiles to molest children, but his statements about the prevalence of homosexuality in our culture have also been misquoted and distorted. While homosexuals still claim that 10% of the population figure is homosexual, Kinsey never made that claim. According to Yarhouse and Jones, Kinsey actually reported a number of different statistics on prevalence rates. These rates include the following:

• Ten percent of white males were "more or less" exclusively homosexual during at least a three-year period between the ages of 16 and 55.
  
  
• Fifty percent of males had neither attraction to nor the experience of homosexual behavior.
  
  
• Kinsey also reported that homosexuality among women was about half the rate of males.

The Kinsey statistics as a whole are suspect because he didn't use random samples and drew samples from prison populations and others who self-identified as homosexuals.

Gay Activist Admits The 10% Figure Is Bogus

Bruce Voeller, a gay activist has admitted in his book, Some Uses and Abuses of the Kinsey Scale that the 10% figure was a myth used to promote the homosexual agenda. According To Voeller: ...after years of our educating those who inform the public and make its laws, that concept that 10 percent of the population is gay has become generally accepted as “fact.” ... As with so many pieces of knowledge and myth, repeated telling it made it so… In short, the 10% urban legend was used by homosexual activists to promote their political and social agenda. They knew it to be false but used it anyway.

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[elpadre]

“I think 10% is probably accurate, it seems the homos are everywhere these days”

Only the homosexual activists agree promote the 10% number.

At a convention 10 years ago, there was a break-out seminar in which noted human behavior scientists provided several valid surveys saying essentially that 2% of the population was homosexual, slightly higher for men, and slightly lower for women.

The problem, as I see it, is that the activists, whom have become a large group in recent years, promote and develop new recruits. Drunken young people are prime targets as are school children. These targets who may not have any same sex attraction before, but after the experience and indoctrination accept it. These activists are a blight on society.

[brytlea]

When I was teaching HS it was becoming fashionable for the girls to behave as lesbians. My impression was that they did it because they guys liked it. I walked in on 2 girls kissing in my classroom once (I had let them go in to work on something, it never occurred to me at the time that 2 girls would be an issue!).

[brytlea]

Being a woman, I suspect that when a woman says she is attracted to women, it may not be in quite the same way a man would be. Because I think women look for something different in a partner than men do. Having said that, I much prefer men, warts and all!

[SweetCaroline]

Television is part of the problem also.

Look at MTV, and Sex in the City, just two of many programs showing gay and bi-sexual relationships as the norm.

[informavoracious]

48% voted for Prop 8 because: they are homosexual, have a family member that is homosexual, have a friend or colleague that is homosexual, or have bought into the “civil rights” gay-is-the-new-black propaganda. Young voters in particular buy into this “cause.”

[little jeremiah]

bookmark.

[scripter]

HA Ping.

Thanks for posting. Many of us here have been discussing the 2.1% (not 10%) number for years.

[manc]

if they want their so called marriage why move to a place which does not let them?

because it is nothing to do with marriage but to do with pushing their agenda.

I have spoken to an organiser over e-mail and they are planning a demo this Saturday in Jacksonville

I kept pointing out that the state will never overturn the will of the people or a constitution amendment.
the state will not ignore the voters, a right to vote which people have died for
she said the public should not vote on this issue

they care not for the constitution or the law.

They actually believe because they live in a homo bubble that two hundred people blowing whistles at cars and passers by will over turn the 62% to us to their 30plus% of votes.

If those country ever breaks up and the north east separates then all homo’s should be forced to move back up there and leave us along down here and take their agenda with them

[Lazamataz]

Exposed: The Myth That "10% Are Homosexual"

I read it different. I thought everyone was 10% homosexual.

So I started sleeping with one out of ten men I met.

[manc]

correct every homo I have ever had the misfortune to come across as been a attention seeker

they are told to get out there and let everyone know they are a homo.
This way it makes them look more of them than there really is.
They are told to make friends with us normal people , neighbors , work etc and then give us the sorry old story of well we just want to be happy crap, some people fall for it sadly but what we have to do is to keep reminding everyone we know how perverted and sick they are.
remind folks what they do to each other and that always works.
every reaction is UGH that is sick

homo’s like to try and make everyone feel sorry for them but they hate it if you make people know what they do to each other.

I do not let one chance go by where I do not mention my disgust to them.
In public or private I do not care, the more of us who stand up the less they will get their agenda advanced

[manc]

had to stop watching HGTV for some time now because of the queers on it .

I like now to watch the older films before my time where the family could watch and there was no disgusting homo’s prancing around like it is normal

[nmh]

BUMP!

[manc]

thank you and that is what I am doing here in st Augustine FL

I get to mention about them every day, I correct anyone who feels sorry for them or say they are married.
I make it a mission to let people know that there is nothing normal about putting a man penis into a mans arse nor is it normal for a woman to pretend she is a man wear a strap on and have sex with the other woman.

everyday I do this and let them know nature never intended for a man and a man to have sex with each other or reproduce.

I talked to an organiser last night and I just kept on at her until she realised she could not answer any questions and she ran out of bumper sticker slogans.

We have to get onto the media at every turn, do not watch any programmes with homo’s in them and let teachers, librarians know we do not want books with homo’s in them.

do not let them think they are being accepted and if everyone stays silent then they have won

[manc]

could be the troll who is always coming on here under different names and then gets banned.
seems they are playing it safer this time but the writing style is very similar.

we’ll see

[manc]

nope
they are told to get to talk to as many people where they live and work so those people will feel sorry for them and then the homo gives the sob story of how they are just wanting to be together and be the same as everyone else.

sadly the sheep follow it without realising at just how sick these people are

we have to tell everyone what they really are about

[Ghengis]

I’ve found that a lot of teenage girls and young adult women are what I call “Internet lebians”. They call themselves lesbian or bisexual but have never had any lesbian experiences and don’t seem to be in any rush to try. I think they say it because it makes them feel special.

One of the most twisted that I’ve encountered was an internet lesbian muslim.

Without a doubt, you and I hang out in different bars! ;-)

[Abathar]

"I'm a 1983 graduate and believe I was among the first targets of the attempted mass conversions to homosexuality."

I don't know where you live, but I grew up in Michigan and graduated in 83 also, and you are spot on. Our school was conservative until just about that time, then we started to get all the "They are just like you, do you like to be singled out?" lectures and it went all downhill from there. Moved to Indiana in a small town that is very conservative, none of that stuff seems to be on the agenda here yet.

[murron]

I work at a very liberal university, and wahtever the percentage is, I think they all go to school here.

[EyeGuy]

Ha!

In my expert (snicker) analysis, I don’t count kids—college age and under.

Right now, it is hip to be queer among some of the young, and I think a lot of these kids are (temporarily) gay-for-attention purposes, and of course, woefully confused and misdirected.

They are playing with fire.

[Gondring]

Which goes to a larger question that has been debated throughout history...is cultural degradation inevitable? In a free market, the consumer chooses the show, and the masses choose MTV over C-Span.