What percentage of preachers are secretly gay?
959922
Probably the same as the Population.
1042804
You seem to be asking two questions, then hint at a third. The first, "Why do they (some people who have a solid faith), insist on pushing it onto others?"\n\nWhen I see "faith" I immediately think "religious faith," and when some of those who have a solid religious faith insist on pushing it onto others, they are likely to be evangelical, which charges them with spreading the Word. For others, their faith has so changed their lives that, evangelical or not, they cannot contain their happiness and must share with others.\n\nAs you elaborate your question you ask a second and hint at a third: "We don't judge them for their beliefs - so why do they judge others?" What you see as "judging" to them may be seen as having accepted the Truth. That Truth is so obvious it can be blinding in its clarity and all the more mystifying that others can't, don't or refuse to see it. That in turn, couples with a sense of urgency to save the rest of us.\n\nAnd then, "While I am not gay, it seems to be the gay community that recieve the most 'telling offs'." This seems to go into a different territory. The gay community receiving the most 'telling offs' may be from those who are anti-gay and/or homophobic; or simply ignorant and/or immature.
1030737
who knows.\ni don't think god favors anyone from the way i understand the bible and all that jazz.\ni think only the gay people who are out of the closet are the successful ones. the white trash gay guy is probably too homophobic to admit he's gay, and he's probably been brainwashed by his not-so-smart-neighbors.
401009
This is an enormously complex and divisive question.  In the LGBT community, the traditional wisdom is that it is 10% of the population.  There are some studies out there that support this number, others that say as high as 16% (a lot depends, by the way, on how you define "bisexual," particularly in women), and some other studies say as low as 2%.  In 2000, the last Census year before the current anti-Gay hysteria took over the Federal government, there was a lot of pressure to use the Census to begin to figure out just how many self-identified LGBT people there were in America, but the political backlash from the predictable Christian Right crowd stifled that.  Still, the census does reveal an astonishingly high number of people who are "heads of households" with biologically unrelated adults of the same gender in their home, so figure it out for yourself.
394736
Depends on where you are. In the US, especially in larger metropolitan areas out of the South, it's fairly easy to be gay and not get grief from others.\n\nIf you're in a society that's dominated by fundamentalist religions, like the US South or Iran or somewhere, then being out and gay isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do. In both places, it can potentially get you killed.\n\nNotice that it's never the gay people killing the fundamentalists...yet somehow, the gays are supposed to be in the wrong?
497607
I think yes, but not because they are innately immune, but rather, because they have motivation to investigate their religion more deeply if their background is one of the anti-gay religions.  If you are told that your nature is evil, you have reason to investigate whether or not that claim is true, whereas straights don't have as much motivation.  \n\nEven though there are plenty of promiscuous religious straights, there is not the same level of condemnation of that as there is of being gay.  There is a religious double standard that says heterosexual promiscuity is simply a series of failures, whereas homosexual "sins" are a lifestyle of rebellion.  ...makes no sense.
826353
as a Catholic cantor I know many dozens of Priests personally who are fed up with the wrong media messages that are doing the rounds about celibacy, all the Priests that I know love their calling and accept the gift of celibacy with joy, a small percentage of Priests have been used as the voice of all the Priesthood and denounced celibacy and this is not indicative of the vast majority.
1155013
There have only been a few pedophile priests and they have all been gay.  I have never heard of them molesting girls, only boys.\n\nThe Catholic church and most protestant churches do not endorse the gay sexual orientation, but there are Christian churches that do.
1063891
Charismatic preachers claim that 'god' speaks to them directly. \n\nPat Robertson would be an example, his followers would count as a subculture.
140729
There is no way of knowing, especially when most gay people are secretive about it. But if I had to take a guess................ I would say 20-10% percent, and that is especially including San Francisco. That is also including bi-sexuals.
343589
I just asked everyone (all 6 billion of them) and the answer is 37.83%.  38% like him, 13% are neutral, and 11% don't care.  I'm in the last group.
1041346
Many just can't get past the gay thing.They are more concerned with what two guys do in the privacy of their own homes then with what they themselves do.Jesus would not approve and would again say to modern followers, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
1013228
I remember something about this from my sociology classes.  It's actually about the same everywhere, at least from what can be told from research that HAS been done.  Each time that researchers have surveyed people (of each sex, from whatever background, from any country, any religion, rural/urban, etc.)--- when the people were told and it was made VERY CLEAR that everything was confidential--- the results were about the same:  4%-5% of those responding identified themselves as homosexual and/or bisexual.\n\nResults from surveys that were NOT confidential were predictably very different.  Numbers were higher in urban and western areas, simply because homosexuality is more openly accepted in those places.  But give the people anonymity, and it seems to even out...
654198
I don't know, no one has come forward and announced he or she was gay. They would be welcomed in our church, but the church would hope the individual would change their lifestyle, since it is against the bible.
116981
"The number of pedophiles in the United States is not known, but mental health experts estimate that 4 percent of the population has a sexual orientation toward children, the vast majority of them males."
50553
Yes, I think so because many people just are in closet! Therefore, statistics are untrue or refer to the people that have claimed their position openly. But in my opinion there are a lot of other gay or bi people in the world around!
368798
Yah.But most of them are gay..........!