So I called my sister and suggested that since it might be unwise to celebrate the occasion

by finding somebody to get gay married to (or non-gay married, I'm openminded), we could celebrate by her picking me up a burrito from Chipotle.

She seems remarkably unconvinced by my stirring argument. This is because she is teetering on the precipice of worst sister ever. (But she can redeem herself and become the best sister ever by getting me that burrito.)

Anyway, once all is said and done I might update this post with a complete list of great images I've seen so far. It might be a looooooooong list.

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The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

Face of bizarre sea creature Hallucigenia revealed

Urban microbes come out of the shadows

Christ, Not Even Jurassic World's Dinosaur Toys Are Allowed to Be Female

How ‘organs-on-chips’ could end animal testing

Why cycletrack networks should be the next great American transit project

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan

Marvel's New Spider-Man Is Our Third White Peter Parker In 15 Years

Sony can make a black Spider-Man movie, it just doesn’t want to

Drastic acceleration of HIV fight needed to stop AIDS resurgence

Fat is back: New guidelines give vilified nutrient a reprieve

Oslo builds its bees a highway of flowers

Thai Buddhists to help anti-Muslim Myanmar monks set up radio station

Middle-Class Black Families, in Low-Income Neighborhoods

NYT Summer Reading List Finally Achieves 100 Percent Whiteness

The Increasing Scarcity of Helium

Listening to 'extreme' music makes you calmer, not angrier, according to study

The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing

The writer of this note is treading a very fine line between passive aggressive and simply aggressive aggressive

Smart insulin patch could replace painful injections for diabetes

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We can add "it's just a tiny minority" to the list of "shit people say that makes no sense"

If gays are a tiny minority then it surely doesn't harm you to let them do what they like.

Of course, you can be a tiny minority and still be a sizable number of people. Statistics show that only about 3% of the US identify as gay or bisexual. We have no idea how many people might simply be deeply closeted and not admit they are gay or bisexual, but then, those people are unlikely to get into a same-sex relationship in the near future so let's ignore them.

The US is the third most populous nation in the world, right after China, India, and the EU. (Okay, except the EU isn't a nation, now is it?) We have just over 321 million people. Minors make up about a quarter of the population, and like closeted gays are also unlikely to get married in the near future, so that leaves, what, 313 million people? Of whom nearly 10 million are gay or bisexual?

Okay, that may be a "tiny minority of the population", but it's also half the population of the greater New York metropolitan area. Or, put another way, it's about 25% greater than the population of NYC. However you want to slice it, 3% of the population of the US is going to add up to a lot of people.

I'm not sure if people making this claim simply can't do math, or if they don't want to.