By Ed Thomas

January 31, 2007

A pro-family activist who monitors the homosexual culture says a recently released marketing survey studying usage of online social network sites verifies what he’s already observed about the culture : that the Internet and websites have been primary tools in getting the movement organized.

The website eMarketer.com reports a recent Harris Interactive online survey of 2,500 adults (18 or older) shows more proportionate weekly use of the sites Friendster and MySpace, and more hourly time on YouTube and Craigslist. At 32 percent, nearly twice as many homosexual and transgender respondents said they were online 24-168 hours per week, compared with 18 percent of heterosexuals.

Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera says the article doesn’t mention one major reason for the difference in numbers. "Of course what the article doesn’t say is that it’s a big part of their illicit life," he asserts. "That’s what the Internet has enabled. The Internet is ideally suited to help uniting people practicing deviance."

Further clarifying his point, LaBarbera explains that technology is often at the forefront of uses for other than the moral good of society ; for example, to connect people in various subcultures and even vices, such as the pornography industry. "... It’s really the same old thing with technology," he says. "It has its good uses, but it also makes it easier for people practicing immoral behavior to organize."

In that sense, he says homosexual individuals in society have been able to network outside of the mainstream with the powerful and efficient tool of Internet websites.