Posted on 07/18/2014 6:05:02 AM PDT by wagglebee
A study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released Tuesday found that there are far fewer who people who identify as homosexual and bisexual in America than many think. The study also found that self-identified homosexuals lead less healthy lives.
According to the study, which was based upon data from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 2.3 percent of Americans identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The study also found that "health behaviors," "health conditions," and "health care access and utilization" were statistically worse among what the CDC calls "sexual minorities.”
The NHIS survey interviewed 34,557 adults aged 18 and older. This was the first time the survey has ever examined sexual orientation.
The CDC's calculation of the percentage of Americans who are homosexual is lower than many previous studies. According to The Washington Post, other surveys have found estimates closer to four percent.
Larger estimates include that of researcher Alfred Kinsey, whose assertion in 1948 that 10 percent of Americans were homosexual has shaped the common view. However, according to Professor Judith Reisman, "the point of [Kinsey's] exaggerated numbers was to change perception and thus laws to cater to the large population and to normalize homosexuality."
Kinsey's research has been shown to have numerous flaws. Among them, he focused much of his research on prison populations and pro-homosexual groups, something a former director of the Kinsey Institute described as "opportunistic collection." He also appears to have focused his study on specific regions of the nation, rather than the country as a whole, and interviewed male prostitutes and sexually abused children, claiming that these demographics represent average Americans.
The CDC study also found dramatically different health behaviors in the homosexual population. Over one-quarter of gay and lesbian Americans over the age of 18 currently smoke, the study found, while fewer than 20 percent of heterosexual Americans do the same. And homosexuals were far more likely to have had five or more alcoholic drinks in one night in the past year than their heterosexual and bisexual counterparts, though heterosexual men drank almost as much as the highest-risk women -- bisexuals.
Over 50 percent of bisexual men had drunk at least five beverages in one night, compared with 31 percent of heterosexual men and 34 percent of bisexual women.
Homosexuals were more likely to have met the federal guidelines for aerobic exercise, and to have had flu shots, however.
Bob Witeck, president of Witeck Communications and a LGBT-issues consultant, argued that the CDC's results are skewed. "The gay population sampled very likely skews younger on average than non-gay adults in the sample" because older homosexuals "are more likely not to disclose and remain closeted,” he told LifeSiteNews.
"Younger gay people also tend to socialize, meet and connect with others in gay bars, parties and other social venues. In all of these venues, smoking and drinking are prevalent – not rare. To visit and enjoy a bar’s social setting, for most adults is to choose to drink and smoke. If the data was controlled for age and behaviors about socializing, then the difference between the gay and non-gay adult might be closer."
Kevin Naff, editor of the Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, told LifeSiteNews that while "it's a terrific milestone that the government is finally gathering data about lesbian, gay and bisexual people, the actual number of gay Americans is routinely undercounted due to the reluctance of many to self-identify as gay."
Witeck said another major factor in the health differentials were related to how "many gay people do feel more stress in their lives – not about their same-sex attraction or identity, but about the degree of alienation or hostility or disdain they may feel from their family, co-workers or their faith if they feel like outsiders."
"They must have coping mechanisms that allow them to deal with all forms of stigma, and it’s not at all unusual for people feeling like outsiders to depend more on substances like alcohol and cigarettes," Witeck said. "Again, that is not because of their sexual orientation. It is because of the way they are judged or alienated by others."
According to Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera, however, "while it's convenient for gay activists to blame homophobia or other outside sources for the ill health of homosexuals, the evidence shows that disease rates and other harms are represented disproportionately among homosexuals.”
“A good example is a study done 12 years after Denmark allowed same-sex domestic partnerships, which found that suicide among men in same-sex partnerships 'was nearly eight times greater than for men with positive histories of heterosexual marriage,’” he continued.
"Certainly," said LaBarbera, "nobody thinks of Denmark as a bastion of homophobia."
Likewise, Focus on the Family Issues Analyst Jeff Johnston told LifeSiteNews, "Many studies have shown that lesbian-, gay-, or bisexual-identified people have greater health problems in a wide variety of areas, including behaviors, mental health issues and physical conditions. It’s significant that the CDC study would find similar outcomes."
Last year, a CDC study of gay men in America found that approximately two-thirds of gay men who have HIV/AIDS engage in sex without using a condom. Earlier in 2013, the director of the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention said that "gay and bisexual men remain at the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."
Johnston also said that "the study just confirms what we already knew" about the population size of homosexuals. "What’s interesting," according to Johnston, "is comparing that number with public perception. The average person thinks the percentage is much higher, probably because of the high profile that entertainment, news media and other influential sources have given homosexuality in recent years.”
Homosexuals are less than three percent of the population, so the number of those who are politically active and pushing the homosexual agenda must be miniscule. Yet they are winning every fight they engage in and will soon have America adopting 100 percent of their agenda.
There are far more conservatives and Tea Partiers. What is the tiny “gay” lobby doing to get its agenda adopted while the conservative agenda goes nowhere?
Read the 1963 Communist goals for the answer.
They must be bummed.
we have been corrupted by a tiny minority, and they are after the next generation. Way past time for the majority to realize that and shake off the chains...
Their numbers are highly inflated by the sympathetic young people who have been taught that homosexuality is a wonderful thing. I know I have a number of them in my own family. In a couple of cases they are pretty conservative on the whole, but support the fairness of gay marriage and other agenda items.
Part and parcel.
Consider that recent expose by a gay journalist in a gay paper about how Mathew Shepard was killed in a meth deal gone bad, rather than a gay bashing attack.
The writer explictly supported the notion that Shepard’s murder had been misidentified because doing so advanced the cause of gay rights.
“And if your parents aren’t aghast about it, what’s the freaking point?”
Early Seventies, Milwaukee. Several “gay” Marquette students rented the house next store. We all got along. They had no aggressive agenda then. But so many of them had “daddy” issues! They wanted to shock and embarrass their fathers! I found that to be quite prevalent, and very sad.
My brother, who is gay, always tried to walk the line between telling people “I was born this way” and telling my mother “You made me this way”.
“than many think”
And why do they think it? Because they have been lied to forever
Everything the left believes is based on lies.
While that 2.5% figure may in fact be accurate, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s actually lower.
YUP!
That is why I call them “LIEberals.”
Whether it's 2 or 4 percent, the "10 percent or more" trope from Kinsey's study never seems to die, no matter how many unbiased studies have been done and how many times Kinsey has been exposed as a fraud who cherry-picked his data to fit an agenda.
A football bat? LOL.
LOVE the tag line.
When I hear people say stuff like, “I’ll move away if...”
I typically say, “Well...BYE!”
- Curly Bill Brosius
LOL.
My favorite part is when he gets hopped up on opium and shoots at the moon.
Kinsey had a perverted mind, that’s clear. His studies of children in particular allowed him to indulge it in the name of “science.”
The cdc does these surveys all the time. Rush is wrong here.
and if you really want an eye opener try finding the survey of teen age at risk behavior, that listed intercourse below age 13 along with who didn’t eat their veggies.
the fact remains that homosexuals and liberals try and portray the homosexual community is bigger than it really is , and push their agenda onto others.
Hell look at TV, Hollywood is big into homosexuality.
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