By Charles Layton
Ocean Grove has 45.1 same-sex couples per 1,000 households — the highest ratio in New Jersey — according to a report on mycentraljersey.com, a Gannett Company website.
In a photo finish, Lambertville came in second with 45.0 same-sex couples per 1,000 households. Asbury Park was third with a ratio of nearly 43 per 1,000.
Those numbers put all three places ahead of such well-known gay meccas as San Francisco.
The numbers are from a study conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles, based on U.S. Census data.
Oddly, the Gannett story leads with Lambertville having the second-greatest concentration of same-sex couples. Only in the 10th paragraph does it mention that Ocean Grove came in first.
This arrangement of the facts prompted one of our citizens to complain on Ocean Grove United’s Facebook page. He wrote that he found it “a little annoying” that the story led with Lambertville’s second place. “Why not lead with #1 — OG???”
To read the Gannett story, go here.
The homeowner residents of Ocean Grove truly have, as the Methodists say, ‘Open Hearts and Open Minds.’ I have lived here for 8 years. When I moved here, the neighbors on my side of my block included a Presbyterian minster and his wife, my gay household, a Jewish family, a German family, a Vietnam Veteran, an 80 year old Methodist, and a British couple. I love how diverse Ocean Grove is! I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Zero coverage from the Asbury Park Press on this. Should I be surprised?