GAY TRUTH

PRINCETON, New Jersey , September 22, 2015  – The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans ' trust in the judiciary has fallen to an all-time low. Trust in the judicial branch of government dropped eight points just in the last year, which saw major decisions including the constitutionalizing of homosexual "marriages." It is a "significant" loss of trust, according to Gallup, with only 53 percent of Americans responding that they have "a great deal" or even just "a fair amount" of trust in the third branch of government. Trust in the executive (45%) and legislative (32%) branches are also quite low, but both were slightly up from last year. In 2009, Americans' trust in the judiciary was 76 percent. In just the six years since then, mistrust has risen in nearly a third of Americans. “The Supreme Court has caused the people to lose confidence in the entire judiciary, because over a period of years, the justices have issued ar

Wagon with poster "We're a GAY and HAPPY FAMILY" (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Why do people in the United States (and probably other Western countries , as well) over-estimate the proportion of gays and lesbians in the population? Ever since 1948, when the  Kinsey Report  suggested 1-in-10, Americans have accepted wildly exaggerated figures. Last year,  The Smithsonian , the official web magazine of the famous museum in Washington DC, even suggested that it was 1-in-5! However, a  recent government survey  in the United Kingdom found that in 2013, 1.6% of UK adults identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual. This is a very small proportion of the population, but it becomes even smaller when the figures are broken up. Only 1.6% of men identified as gay; only 0.8% of women as lesbians; and 0.5% of men and women as bisexual. The percentages varied hugely by region. In London the figure for gay, lesbians or bisexual was 3.2% but in the North East region , it was only 1.