What goes through the mind of someone who is gay? If you listen to the Christian right, somewhere there is a magical place where people wait in line for hours to sign up to be gay. Because it’s a choice, right? “Hmm. I’ll choose the life where I will face discrimination, fear, loneliness, rejection, lack of rights and possibly risk my life. Yea, that one sounds better.”

I came across an interesting post on the Advocate, a long running, well respected LGBT newspaper. The post started in September of 2006 by a young Christian man who hates being gay and is praying that his faith will give him the strength to overcome being gay.

Compared to many of the Stupid Things People Say About Gays done during the course of this series, this one is perhaps only a small slight, but the ramifications of this sort of ideology can result in absolute horror:

“There aren’t even that many gay people let alone gay people who would get married and need benefits!!!!!!!!!!!” Youtube User bwickedintense

This statement may be true to the extent that there are far more straight people than gay people. Of course, to get an accurate count, you would first have to define what “gay” is. Does “gay” include bisexual people, and if so, does it include bisexual people living in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship? Dr. Kinsey originally opined that 1 in every 10 people is gay.