I know I can't shelter my kids forever. Like I always say, when barriers start to fall they go way beyond where they were intended to go, they always do! Just like the Patriot Act, before long that will be used for "all" purposes. Do they have pornos at the library? I doubt it. I wouldn't have a problem with all of this garbage at the public library if they had a room that was only available for adults provided it could be supervised correctly. Our libraries don't work that way. We don't need this garbage at a public library, these things should be left up to the consumer for purchase. I will teach my kids early on about gays, values and all. This doesn't mean our tax dollars should go to work putting in garbage at the library just like it does for art, National Endowment for the Arts, I don't know how to say or spell that. I think you know what I'm talkin about. Besides, If people want gay books and pornos they should go out and buy them and support the people who make them and the authors for gay books. You would actually be helping them financially and doing them a favor. :thumb:
You've obviously never been to the west coast. Heck, between Seattle, San Francisco and the USC male student population, that's at least 3-4% right there.
isnt is just obvious to you from living in the world that 10% is way too high? if that was true we would all know like bunches and bunches of gay people, but in reality we all know like 2 or 3 max, plus maybe one in the closet. "Although Kinsey's studies are often cited as documenting that 10% of the U.S. population is gay, Kinsey did not categorize his research participants according to sexual orientation. Instead, he chose to emphasize sexual behavior and fantasy. In addition, because Kinsey did not collect his data from a probability sample, valid inferences cannot be made from them to the larger population. For a discussion of how the Kinsey data came to be widely understood as supporting the ten percent figure, see Voeller (1990). Support for the ten percent figure was also provided by Paul Gebhard (director of the Kinsey Institute) in a 1977 memo to the National Gay Task Force. All surveys are likely to underestimate the actual prevalence of homosexuality because, fearing discrimination and stigma, many gay respondents are reluctant to tell a stranger (even anonymously) that they are homosexual. Recognizing this limitation, most research with probability samples suggests that at least 3-6% of the US adult male population is homosexual, with somewhat fewer females ." http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_mental_health.html
Well, it seemed a little for high for my world, but Baton Rouge is a conservative town. I did quick mental count of my colleagues at work, my friends and aquaintances, and my extended family and it worked out at something like 4%. But that's just the gays I know about, there must be more that are covert. But, as mentioned by MI, I have been to the French Quarter, San Francisco, and Paris and it makes me think that BR may be under the curve. There are no shortage of gays in Manhattan either, martin, what do you put them at there?
depends on where you are. financial district, 1%, chelsea 60%. i agree that gays are probably underrepresented in baton rouge, and that there is no real way to know, because of the covert homos, but i think it is obvious that 10% is way high. everybody i know only knows a handful of gays, and thats counting the ones who think they are secretly gay. so obviously we are just guessing here, but your 4% sounds about right, maybe if we correct for baton rouge being anti-gay, it is maybe 5-6%? hard to know, but when you consider that lesbians seem to be pretty rare and certainly less than 5%, even if male homos were 10%, the ladies would pull that way down.
I used to have a friend who had the homo-gay and I was so afriad I might catch it from him that I stopped being friends with him and beat him up. Thats ok though cause people with the homo-gay don't have rights like us normal people.
