Which premise fails, Ebbie? About what percentage of families in America do you think have had heterosexual parents raising children in the last 100 years? I'd say virtually all of them, and that's why I said about 99%, just as a ballpark figure.

I've known a number of gay individuals by now. Maybe a dozen or so of them among the tens of thousands of friends and acquaintances I've had in my life, maybe two dozen. I haven't personally known anyone yet who was raised as a child in a gay family...not one.

There are some people who have been. Sure. And I haven't happened to meet them. But what guess would you make as to their percentage amongst the general population?

My premise is simply that people resist the unfamiliar and they cling to the familiar, because it makes them feel secure. What fault do you find in that premise? There are thousands of different ways of proving it if one wishes to take the time.

It's plain freaking obvious. But people here would rather talk about homophobia and hunt around for homophobes, and reduce everything to some extreme position that they can get upset about than just look at something perfectly ordinary and predictable that's plain freaking obvious, wouldn't they?


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Do you disagree with my premise? I will repeat it. My premise is simply that people everywhere in EVERY society resist the unfamiliar and they cling to the familiar, because it makes them feel secure.