According to a survey just published in Britain, 23.5 per cent of women fantasise about same-sex relationships, while only 5.3 per cent of men do so. (’Nurses and firemen top fantasy poll’, Melbourne Age, 24 Aug. 2006)

This is going to cause a lot of problems. You see, religious right groups constantly tell us that only 1-2 per cent of the population is gay or lesbian and therefore that we should staunchly oppose the granting of equal rights to such a tiny, insignificant group. It’s completely illogical but this is how these people think.

It’s been pointed out in another post on this site that one per cent of the Australian population represents about 200,000 people, while the more commonly accepted estimate of around 3-5 per cent ‘exclusively homosexual’ would give us a figure approaching one million. Add some more for the bisexuals and we seem to be looking at a very large crowd indeed.

But things get completely out of hand if we assume that the British figures regarding fantasies about same-sex relationships broadly apply to Australia as well. Why? Matthew 5:28 is why. Let me refresh your memories with these words of Jesus:

But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Get it? If you indulge in a sexual fantasy about someone or something, it’s just as bad as performing the act itself. Therefore, biblically speaking, well over 5 per cent of British (and, we are assuming, Australian) men are constructively gay, while a massive 23.5 per cent of women are ’scriptural lesbians’! That’s roughly two and a half million Australian lesbians!!

Well, it must be true. It’s in the Bible, isn’t it?

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