No Kathy Bates is a very good actress who you'd probably know from other movies, more recently remembered for a hot tub scene in About Schmidt. But in Misery she was a demented fan of a writer, with an odd cutesy manner. It was a Steven King story, like the Secret Window, or whatever the newer one is called. I don't quite get the comparison, Mister Man.

One of the arguments against particular gay rights laws and protections is that gays are disproportionately successful, anyway, tend to make more money by and large, and hold positions of responsibility. I don't know where those numbers come from, or how one counts gays in a population except by self-declaration, again. But gay people I know fit that general outline.

Lesbians are probably at the lowest risk for stds, I think. A lot of objections seem to focus disproportionate attention on gay men. Maybe because men are more trouble in general. It's harder to pick names for baby boys because some stupid guy you knew ruined every good name.

Marriage itself is a separate question, since it's not all about kids. But monitoring kids is a big and complicated part. The law respects blood, and tends to reflect biases. Without marriage a gay couple might adopt in one name, and if that parent dies, the other has no custody claim. In a good situation, that would be awful.