{"id":9934,"date":"2010-09-23T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2010-09-23T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T03:22:50","slug":"some-interesting-numbers-from-the-uk-on-the-percentage-of-the-population-that-is-homosexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-interesting-numbers-from-the-uk-on-the-percentage-of-the-population-that-is-homosexual\/","title":{"rendered":"Some interesting numbers from the UK on the percentage of the population that is homosexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314720\/Only-100-Britons-gay-despite-myth--71-public-say-Christian.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first ever official count of the gay population has found that only one in 100 adults is homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>The figure explodes the assumption\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 long promoted by social experts and lobbyists\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 that the number is up to ten times higher than this at one in ten.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics said 1.3 per cent of men are gay and 0.6 per cent of women are lesbian.<\/p>\n<p>Another 0.5 per cent consider themselves bisexual, according to the figures gathered from questions put to nearly 250,000 &#8211; the biggest survey possible outside a full national census.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, in total, around 1.5 per cent of the population is either homosexual or bisexual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There isn\u2019t much reason to suppose that the percentages would be substantially different in North America. I strongly suspect that the percentage of homosexual Anglican priests is much higher, though.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the attraction of dressing up in robes, I can\u2019t think of any convincing reason for this: it does help to explain the obsession that the Anglican church has for what it calls \u201cthe full inclusion of gays\u201d. It has more to do with self-interest than anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The first ever official count of the gay population has found that only one in 100 adults is homosexual. The figure explodes the assumption\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 long promoted by social experts and lobbyists\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 that the number is up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-interesting-numbers-from-the-uk-on-the-percentage-of-the-population-that-is-homosexual\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[407,2166,2167],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-anglicanism","tag-homosexual-priests","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}