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Is Prime Minister Luxon just a bald Ardern? |
As if the horrible example of batshit Britain gone bonkers or the October 7 atrocities were not enough ... New Zealand's smarmy PM Christopher Luxon and his Minister of Police Mark Mitchell today were, incredibly, celebrating Ramadan. It's a 'holy month', they said. They wished us all a 'blessed Ramadan'.
'Blessed'? As if God could bless an ideology which promotes rape, murder, genital mutilation of women, sodomising boys (but not adults), beheadings and Sharia law. Ramadan, we're told, is the time for Muslims to learn to control themselves. Judging by their behaviour in Britain, Muslims are very slow learners.
All protestations to the contrary, New Zealand is no longer a Christian country. In fact it leads the world in paganism, with Te Pati Maori, Kapa Haka (costing NZ $48 million) and the Coalition Government's enthusiasm for LGBTQ+ cementing this dubious honour in place. With even NZ Police now busy indoctrinating children, New Zealand looks likely to emulate the US where nearly one in 10 now identify as 'queer'.
National and Luxon are pandering for votes. Hands up, all you Kiwis who bitterly regret giving them yours.
Nearly one in 10 Americans now identify as LGBTQ+, according to Gallup — almost double the percentage recorded just four years ago.
In 2020, 5.6% percent of U.S. adults identified as LGBTQ+ on the Gallup survey, and today, 9.3% of adults in the U.S. identify as part of the community. That number represents a one-point bump from just a year ago, and a staggering increase from the 3.5% first registered in Gallup’s inaugural 2012 poll measuring the size of the LGBTQ+ community.
The rise in Americans openly identifying as LGBTQ+ is largely due to an uptick in people who identify as bisexual, especially among Generation Z, according to Gallup’s breakdowns of the data.
More than one in five Gen Z adults (23.1%) now identify as LGBTQ+, per Gallup, followed by about 14% of millennials. Older generations, including Gen X, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation, all identify as LGBTQ+ at rates of 5% or below, tapering off to only 1.8% for those born in or before 1945.
Of the 900 people surveyed who identified as LGBTQ+, more than half — 56% — indicated that they were bisexual. In fact, more than half of both Gen Z (59%) and millennial (52%) queer people identified as bisexual. These numbers are consistent with past polling that has shown that bisexual people are an “invisible majority” within the queer community.
The percentage of trans U.S. adults has also increased when compared with the survey’s 2024 results. In last year’s poll, fewer than one percent (0.9%) of American adults identified as trans, while this year, 1.3% of respondents self-identified as such. Likewise, last year, 11.8% of the LGBTQ+ population identified as trans, while this year that percentage was recorded at approximately 14%.
The poll notes that LGBTQ+ identification has a strong correlation with being a woman, being politically liberal, and living in an urban area. For example, 21% of liberals, compared to 3% of conservatives, identified as queer or trans, while, overall, 10% of women identify as part of the community compared to 6% of men.
Gallup based its results on interviews with more than 14,000 U.S. adults. Respondents were asked to identify as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or something else, and are allowed to indicate multiple identities when responding.
As the percentage of Americans who identify as LGBTQ+ rises, the statistic inches closer to a famous and controversial claim based on the work of human sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s. Kinsey estimated that about one in 10 Americans were predominantly homosexual — a figure that was colloquially flattened over the years to become the oft-repeated claim that 10% of the population is gay.
Kinsey of course was long ago outed as a liar. "Kinsey was a pederast who enjoyed the company of adolescent boys well into his college years. Under the guise of "research," he produced professional sex films in the attic of his home using his staff and their families as the cast. A committed atheist, he allowed no Christians or Jews on his staff. His books made no attempt to hide his "grand scheme" to steer society away from its traditional moral standards to one predicated on "free love." "https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6793
The results of Gallup’s poll suggests a population increasingly likely to be at odds with the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies, which include a January executive order making it the official position of the U.S. government that there are only two genders defined at birth. That memo is part of a recent conservative efforts to deny and regulate the existence of trans people nationwide. In 2024, a record number of bills aimed at limiting trans freedoms, including access to gender-affirming health care, were introduced in state legislatures.https://www.them.us/story/gallup-lgbtq-population-nine-percent-increase-united-states