If You're Gay and You Know It Raise Your Hand

Tom Cruise thinks we need to get an accurate count of homosexuals:

Responding to news that Britain is counting the number of homosexual citizens it has in a new survey beginning in January, everyone's favorite troublemaker, actor Tom Cruise, has called on the U.S. government to do the same.

As Cruise told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel last night: "I am tired of not knowing. I am tired of hearing numbers quoted all over the map from practically zero to only a few million, all of them certainly far less than I believe there are. I think it is, psychologically, now the time to try and do something about this."

Kimmel had raised the subject in his opening monologue that evening but appeared dismissive of Cruise's support for the idea, saying: "I think such a census would prove to be a nightmare for any statistician."

Cruise was on Kimmel's show to publicize his newest film, "Valkyrie," which opens Christmas Day. "Valkyrie" is the true story of a plot to kill Adolph Hitler.

I doubt that gays would want to go along with this. For years they've been promoting the idea that 10% of the population is gay (based on the flawed Kinsey study of prisonsers from the 50's), and an accurate count would probably put the actually percentage somewhere in the 2% or 3% range. That might take away some of the political power this noisy but relatively small group wields.