Gays vastly outnumbered by their Straight ALLIES.

On Jan. 28, 2004, a Usenet participant challenged an earlier post that I'd made, by asking this question:

Please prove that "straight allies almost certainly are in greater numbers than the gays".

To which I responded as follows ---

That's one of the easiest things in the world to do!

Pretty much the highest percentage of gays that anyone claims, in the population, is 10%. But just for fun, let's assume for a moment that figure were true. However... recent polls have shown that the percentage of people in America who would be supportive of same-sex civil unions (but not "marriage,' semantically-speaking... and really, that's the ONLY difference) is now very close to 50%. Any straight person who would not object to same-sex civil unions is an ALLY of the gays. And if we used only 40% (and there are more allies than that, as I just said), then we'd have the following:

Gays -- 10%... 29,000,000 Americans

+ Straight Allies -- 30%... 87,000,000 Americans

= TOTAL Gays & Allies -- 40%... 116,000,000 Americans

Ratio: 3-1. Three times more straight allies than gays. (At least!)

Using more realistic numbers, let's assume that 5% of the population is gay, and that 45%of population favors the granting of the right of gays to have same-sex civil unions. This gives us the following figures, which probably approximate today's reality very closely:

Gays -- 5%... 14,500,000 Americans

+ Straight Allies -- 45%... 130,500,000 Americans

= TOTAL Gays & Allies -- 50%... 145,000,000 Americans

Ratio: 9-1. NINE times more straight allies than gays.

Using either set of figures, those who think (wish) that straight allies of the GLBT Community are few in number, lose, big-time. A ratio of three-to-one is the best they can do with such a claim, but that's unrealistically low. Straight ALLIES of the gays vastly outnumber the gays, themselves. By approximately NINE-to-one.

The source of this next information is:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Relationships/same_sex_marriage_poll_040121.html

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Views of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions:

"Marriage" -- Make legal: 41% ... Keep Illegal: 55%
"Civil Unions" -- Make legal: 46% ... Keep Illegal: 51%

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This reliable ABC News Poll proves the ignorance of homophobes when they attempt to claim that gays have relatively few straight allies. They can wish all they want, but these facts are devastating to their antisocial hopes.

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And -- per CNN's exit polls at the Wisconsin Primary, fully 61% of the people in that HEARTLAND (not "liberal" coastal) state who took the time and effort to actually get out and VOTE --said that they SUPPORT same sex civil unions/marriage. And that was an open primary, in which people from ALL parties, including Republicans, were allowed to vote. The Wisconsin Primary was held more than a week after the same-sex marriages had started in San Francisco, so people were well aware of what they were supporting.

In conclusion, I offer this food for thought. Even by 2004, it was becoming very evident that the agendas of homophobic bigots were entering a fast track toward the Drain of Extinction. Where they ultimately would end up, forevermore, with the equally-hateful and ignorant agenda of the oh-so-similar segregationists, 50 years earlier. Which is HUGE progress toward an egalitarian America, when one considers that even as recently as 1970, it's likely that opposition to same-sex marriage probably would have exceeded 90%... if the issue even were to have been raised at all.

The legalization of same-sex marriage is inevitable, thanks to egalitarian activists. And when it arrives... guess what? It'll be just like 1967 all over again -- when the U.S. Supreme Court's "Loving vs. Virginia" decision struck down all remaining laws against interracial marriage. The sky didn't fall then, and it won't this time either. Because, after all, it's hard to imagine anything more harmless than same-sex marriage. It'll do NO harm to any opposite-sex couples' marriages. And by five years later, the likelihood is that almost no one will even give it a second thought, anymore. And wonder what the fuss had been all about!