LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)--Chad Thompson began by telling his story.  “I remember sitting on my bed when I was in the fourth grade. I hadn’t even hit puberty yet, but I knew I was different,” said Thompson, author of “Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would” and a featured workshop speaker at the “Disturbing Voices” HIV/AIDS conference at Saddleback Church.

Of the nation's 111.1 million households in 2005, 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, were made up of married couples -- with and without children. This stat is down more than 52 percent from five years earlier.

Since 2000, those identifying themselves as unmarried opposite-sex couples rose by about 14 percent: Male couples by 24 percent, female couples by 12 percent.

• In a sexual profile of 2,583 older homosexuals found that "the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500."
• A nationally representative survey of 884 men and 1,288 women found that 77 percent of married men and 88 percent of married women had remained faithful to their marriage vows
• The Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice) reports that married women in traditional families experience the lowest rate of violence compared with women in other types of relationships.
• A national survey of lesbians published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that 75 % of the nearly two-thousand respondents had pursued psychological counseling of some kind, many for treatment of long-term depression or sadness:
• A study in Developmental Psychology found that 12 percent of the children of lesbians became active lesbians themselves, a rate which is at least four times the base rate of lesbianism in the adult female population