Not near as many as most people think

It's almost as if there's someting cosmic about the way news items come across the radar screen in clusters by topic.

After putting up the previous post, I ran across this Atlantic Monthly piece by Garance Franke-Ruta on the wildly overblown perception among the American public of what percentage of it is homosexual.

This paragraph is particularly insightful:

These numbers are significant because identity -- and not behavior -- is the central determinant of whether or not someone will seek a same-sex marriage. A straight woman who makes out a couple of times with a female friend in college is not going to seek a same-sex marriage, nor is a guy who fooled around once with a male friend while drunk in high school. Neither individual is demographically relevant to the question of how often same-sex marriages will occur. And it's not clear at all what fraction of bisexuals will seek out same-sex marriages.

 I've long thought that establishing a broad-brush straight/gay dichotomy mainly served the purpose of those who would politicize it.  Balkanize the American public and it won't unify and toss out the FHer overlords.