Thanks for trying to bring stats into the discussion, but there's a flaw in your numbers. They come from a survey of 1,000 people by Prudential, a company not exactly known to be able to find respondents outside its client pool (ie, they already have to be relatively wealthy.) There is a much more comprehensive data set out there that relies on the full US census, rather than a small pool of 1,000 Prudential customers.
From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...than-non-gays/2011/03/04/gIQA26CexQ_blog.html
"Gary Gates, a scholar with the
Williams Institute who has analyzed 2010 Census Bureau data for the forthcoming American Community Survey (ACS), notes that while the gap has narrowed, it still remains.
Different-sex married couples with kids, average household income: $96,265
Same-sex couples with kids, average household income: $88,828
Different-sex married couples with kids, median household income: $77,000
Same-sex couples with kids, median household income: $67,000
The gap in average income was $7,437. The gap in the median income was $10,000.
While we’re at it, let’s look at some poverty numbers. LGBT families with children earn less than married heterosexual families with children. And there are more of them living in poverty and receiving public assistance.
Now take a look at a chart Gates gave me from the ACS analysis of 2010 Census Bureau data.
As you can see, 3.4 percent of gay men and lesbians are on public assistance compared with .9 percent of straights. The percentages are higher for LGBT families with children with 3.4 percent of lesbian couples and 2.7 percent of gay male couples on the dole. That’s 6.1 percent compared to 1.3 percent for married heterosexual couples raising children."
You can also look at this writeup on the history of activism in the gay community on economic and social issues here:
http://urbanhabitat.org/node/5822
gay agenda nonsense.
