I simply don't believe this is true from a familial standpoint. The percentage of gays in this country is not that high - just surfing, estimates range from 2% to 3.5%. And, for the high number, I'd have to see the questions asked before believing that poll.
As for the rest of the statement, I concur.
Tell a lie enough and it bcomes truth
My favorite sleazy poll asked about "homosexual encounters" to determine the percentage of active homosexuals. They listed examples of homosexual encounters, including a same-sex person making unwanted sexual advances. Rather clever actually - dishonest but clever. They hit close to 5% of the population as actively homosexual, and I suspect the true number would have been higher if people had responded honestly.
“I simply don’t believe this is true from a familial standpoint.”
I took it to mean “extended” family. IE: cousins, aunts, uncles, children grandchildren, and so on. Extended family usually can contain a surprisingly large number when you sit down and add them up.
I don’t think the author meant “immediate family”.
I think all of us have gay friends. Many of us have close family members. The women accept the behavior easier than the fathers and the brothers. How many men are purely gay? Probably 2 to 3% or less. How many bisexual? Much higher.
On the other hand, the current generation, is more forgiving and accepting than probably any other generation in the history of this country. Maybe it’s the nature of the evolution of a great society. After affluence you go into a period of moral decay, decadence and demise.
Something must change this trajectory. You would think that the AIDs virus would wake all of us it didn’t, and there’s more new sexual transmitted diseases in adults, esp recently divorced.
Something is going to happen, no doubt. Maybe a back lash on the state level that leads to a constitutional convention and we have an actual amendment that fully states that our country recognizes marriage between a man and a woman.