Did you know that the saying that 10 % of the population is homosexual is nothing but a lie ?-ukcoalition.org

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

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.

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.
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,
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What is wrong with you people ! I'm not full of hate today ! I'm not hating on homosexuals ! I just want people to be informed and know the truth because millions of people are actually being fed lies !

P.S. The question is whether or not you knew about this ?

It depends on what you define homosexual as. For example does that include transsexuals and bi-sexual? I think most of your long article would be improved if you had a better definition for what is included, and those various studies disagree on the basis of their fact gathering. At the time of the Kinsey study, homosexuality was still a crime, and you can't expect people to accurately mark the surveys if they feared punishment.

What exactly is the question again??

No, I did not know that. But I always thought that the 10% was higher than the actual number.

You expect anyone to read all that?

It IS true...see "they" are counting all of their "straight" men on the down low.

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Well aren't you full of hate today. I almost feel sorry for you.

geezzz..............I red most of it and it is very interesting

I don't know but what I can't understand is how they put so much effort, time and money into researching something like this. Homosexuals are people just like everyone else and should be treated as such.

Of course 10% is a lie.

I'm really sorry you are so worried about it though.

you have too much free time on your hands

Did you know that many, many homosexuals aren't comfortable with publicly announcing their sexuality and instead choose to marry, adopt children, and satisfy their deeply-buried, self-loathing sexual spirit by engaging in anonymous sex in airport bathrooms, therefore throwing off the percentages reported by the not-possibly-biased research in "Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific
Research in the Church's Moral Debate."

Also, did you know that the whole cut-and-paste of the "ZOMGTHEHOMOSARETAKINGOVER!" propaganda is intellectually weak, embarrassing for the poster, and doesn't change the fact that there's still a zillion of them out there regardless of the actual percentages? Seriously. Get a hobby.

Nope, sure didn't.

who really cares? would you want someone telling you whom you can and cant love? it has no direct affect on you so let them be already. people are people. they still have feelings and they still deserve respect and should be allowed to live their life without people acting like it matters. the fact is you dont really know anything just because statistics tell you so. statistics are a general figure based on studies- but there are still people who havent come out and people that did not participate in it

and who cares really sweety .. leave these ppl alone there not messing with anybody

What does this have to do with anything?

STFU.

Shut up dummy.

Despite what the "actual" percentage. It all depends on if all persons participating in the studies were 100% truthful. I have also read studies that make claims of up to 33% of the population is gay or bi. In saying this I would say bisexual people should be counted also, since it strays from the societies idea of norm. This question I feel is a bit homophobic. I myself am not gay, but my sister is a lesbian. I can tell you I live in Lawrence, Kansas and the gay population per capita here is huge, I realize this may not reflect the nation as a whole but perhaps so many have called my town home because they are treated just like anyone else here. All in all I do feel homosexuals are mistreated for who they are. I do believe at least 95% of homosexuals are born that way. Having grown up with my sister my whole life the "little girl" that never acted like one. Either way, I don't think they are asking for "special rights," they just wanted to be treated as people too. Free to love and marry who they want, the ability to walk down the street safely without harm coming to them based on the fact they are gay and to be able to put their loved one on their insurance, or to be able to be considered family to make choices on their behalf if their loved one falls ill. If they are living together like they are married they should be able to have the same tax breaks that married people do. So many discriminate them based on the fact of how they are born ...would the people that discriminate against gays also discriminate against people born with a physical or mental handicap? May be...may be not.

Did you know that the saying that 10 % of the population is homosexual is nothing but a lie ?

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