Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The LGBT numbers

 A recent Gallup poll suggests that the percentage of LGBT+ professing adults is growing largely due to the younger age groups,

"Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged 27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation."

 People identifying as bisexual are most of the new converts,

"Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual. Gay and lesbian are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBTQ+ adults are transgender."

I suspect a lot of those "bisexuals" are heterosexual who are just saying they are bisexual to keep up with the Joneses.

 LGBT+ activists will probably say that the increases are due to relaxing social pressures on people and freeing them to be what they were born to be. 

I say that declines in religion, marriage, and family free people to walk away from God's intended path.

1 comment:

  1. Katherine10:35 AM

    I agree with you, but I also think this is a peer pressure phenomenon. Social media have been enormously destructive to individuals and to society.

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