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The University of Melbourne logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A New Zealand pro-life commentator has blasted the methodology and findings of an Australian sociological study that found that children with homosexual, bisexual or lesbian parents are happier and healthier than kids from the average family. Writing on his Leading Edge blog on July 22, Brendan Malone stated that the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families, out of the University of Melbourne , was “ideologically motivated”. The preliminary findings of the study were listed in an article in the Sunday Star Times in New Zealand on July 21. The lead researcher was Dr Simon Crouch, a homosexual man with four-year-old twin boys. The study collected data on the physical, mental and social wellbeing of 500 children aged 5 to 17, from 315 homosexual, lesbian and bisexual parents. Children from same-sex couples scored better than the national average for Australia in general health and family cohesion measures. T

Image via Wikipedia Even though the best data available puts the prevalence of homosexuality at somewhere between 1% and 4% of the U.S. population , on average American adults believe that 25% of the population is homosexual , according to a new Gallup poll . Over half of Americans estimate that 1 in 5 (20%) are homosexual, and thirty-five percent estimate that 1 in 4 (25%) are homosexual, according to the poll, which involved interviews with 1,018 U.S. adults in all 50 states. “Americans perceive that there is a large U.S. gay population—one far larger than is likely reality,” concludes the pollster, observing that the tendency to overstate the population is likely due, at least in part, to the level of exposure that Americans have to homosexuality. Despite their status as a small minority, in the past several decades homosexuals have built a well-funded and politically powerful activist movement that has placed homosexuality at the forefront of political and popular culture .