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New Record Highs in Moral Acceptability
Gallup ^ | 5/30/14

Posted on 05/30/2014 10:42:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The American public has become more tolerant on a number of moral issues, including premarital sex, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia. On a list of 19 major moral issues of the day, Americans express levels of moral acceptance that are as high or higher than in the past on 12 of them, a group that also encompasses social mores such as polygamy, having a child out of wedlock, and divorce.

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KEYWORDS: church; moralabsolutes; morality; morals; religion; socialissues
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Record high acceptance of divorce, pre-marital sex, unwed motherhood, sodomy, doctor assisted suicide, abortion, cloning, suicide, polygamy, and even extra-maritr sex.

All TRENDING higher.

Weep for America.

1 posted on 05/30/2014 10:42:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Where are we going - and what are we doing in this handbasket....?


2 posted on 05/30/2014 10:44:06 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73

I’m not worried. God knew all this was going to happen back before He created Adam.


3 posted on 05/30/2014 10:51:05 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag (The problem with the world today, is that it wants to be digital, but it's really analog)
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To: SoFloFreeper

In 2012 there was a ballot question in Massachusetts to legalize assisted suicide.In the same election that saw Osama Obama get something like 90% of the vote here I was stunned to see that the assisted suicide question was defeated.


4 posted on 05/30/2014 10:54:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: SoFloFreeper

We can clearly see who are the Evil Doers.

5 posted on 05/30/2014 10:55:46 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Gay State Conservative

electing Obama was assisted suicide, of the country


6 posted on 05/30/2014 10:56:24 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“... and they have forgotten ME, says the Lord.”

That’s worse than any individual earthly sin. Shun the Savior = no salvation.


7 posted on 05/30/2014 10:58:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Or that the Jackass Party appeals more to the evil.


8 posted on 05/30/2014 10:59:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: GeronL

He would have been rejected had he not been willing to fill the job of Idol of America.


9 posted on 05/30/2014 10:59:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Not every single solitary item indicates an evil... the animal cloning may not be a sin as it is an extension of animal husbandry. But most of these are classic evils.


10 posted on 05/30/2014 11:01:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So “high” is the new low.

Lib doublespeak at it’s finest.


11 posted on 05/30/2014 11:08:06 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: redhawk.44mag

I am! God knowing about these things in advance hasn’t prevented things like the Holocaust, the Gulag, or other atrocities of history.


12 posted on 05/30/2014 11:08:44 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: SoFloFreeper

In an increasingly godless society such as the former America.. are we surprised?


13 posted on 05/30/2014 11:12:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; ...
An indication of where morality is in America....

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14 posted on 05/30/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Oliviaforever

I’ll bet pedophilia ranks high among dems as well.


15 posted on 05/30/2014 11:14:28 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Oliviaforever

The poll says 27% of democrats are OK with suicide.

OK, dems... prove it.


16 posted on 05/30/2014 11:16:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Veto!

bttt


17 posted on 05/30/2014 11:24:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Oliviaforever

What? They didn’t ask how people felt about homosexual marriage?


18 posted on 05/30/2014 11:30:30 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: redhawk.44mag
"I’m not worried."

Me neither - I mean in the sense that I know where I'm going, but it will be a painfull few years until we get there....

19 posted on 05/30/2014 11:52:46 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

And America goes deeper and deeper into the cesspool of evil.


20 posted on 05/30/2014 12:05:32 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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