Posted on 07/22/2014 12:42:47 PM PDT by jalisco555
As it has for decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week released its annual National Health Interview Survey on the health of Americans. But this year, there was a difference: For the first time, the respondents were asked about their sexual orientation.
Of 34,557 adults ages 18 and older, the survey reported, 1.6 percent said they were gay or lesbian. Some critics say the numbers are low, but they fall in the range of other surveys. In the new survey, however, only 0.7 percent of respondents described themselves as bisexual; other studies have reported higher numbers.
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I was talking to some liberals a few weeks ago who assured me that it was LGBT. I asked why not GBLT. They said because that’s the name of a sandwich and it would be insulting to them to use it. So I have been, ever since.
But I call them Gay BLTs.
Because in the 80s, Gay was, you know, yuck.
Good one :)
That's pretty much my impression. Most of the political noise being made about the homosexual marriage issue is coming from a tiny minority from within a tiny minority, the remainder comes from non-homosexuals who are simply using the issue because they want to make themselves feel like the straight versions of the white "freedom riders" from the 60's (i.e. their lives don't feel fulfilled unless they can pretend to be martyrs or on the side of wannabe martyrs).
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