According to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology:
A quarter of [college] students are LGBT, and there are roughly equal shares of Christian and nonreligious students. LGBT, Nonreligious, and Christians are set to become more important political groups among America’s future leaders.
Liberal arts colleges are the least politically diverse. Many have almost no conservatives, and thus very low viewpoint diversity. But they have high sexual diversity, at nearly 40 percent LGBT.
Commenting on the report, Legal Insurrection notes that
23 percent of American college students identify as LGBTQ. That percentage is close to the results of a Gallup poll, in which 21% of Generation Z identified as LGBT ten months ago.
Far fewer older people identify as LGBT. The overall percentage of Americans identifying as LGBT was only 7% in the Gallup poll.
What do all the numbers mean? They mean that young persons — even (or especially) the most intelligent among them — are impressionable and easily swayed by their peers. The LGBT fad on college campuses exemplifies the bandwagon effect.
It’s another good reason to slash the funding of colleges and universities, especially the funding of illiberal arts departments and programs. Unfortunately, it’s too late to prevent the next generation of adults from becoming even more radical, irrational, and destructive than the generation that was spawned by the “flower children” of the 1960s and 1970s.
Fasten your seat belts.
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