According to a new survey by the Gallup organization, for the first time a majority of Americans—53 percent—believe that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable. Only 43 percent of Americans call these relationships morally wrong.Posted on 06/18/2010 1:47:13 AM PDT by markomalley
According to a new survey by the Gallup organization, for the first time a majority of Americans—53 percent—believe that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable. Only 43 percent of Americans call these relationships morally wrong.
This is a dramatic change from the beginning of the millennium. In 2001, only 40 percent of those surveyed called same-sex relationships “morally acceptable” while 53 percent called them “morally wrong.”
According to Gallup, the “gradual increase in public acceptance of gay relations” is “almost exclusively” a result of changing attitudes among males towards homosexuality. This is especially the case among men under the age of 50.
The change in attitudes has happened despite little, if any change, in beliefs about the causes of same-sex attraction. Americans are evenly divided on the “nature versus nurture” explanation, and have been for a long while.
The only good news from the survey results is that 53 percent of those polled are against same-sex “marriage,” which is “down slightly” from last year.
Not surprisingly, gay-rights activists are ecstatic over the results. At the Atlantic Monthly, Andrew Sullivan called the results a cultural “Rubicon” and rejoiced in the failure of those he labels “Christianists”—a nice backhanded comparison to “Islamists.”
Christian commentator Rod Dreher, while he completely disagrees with Sullivan on the issue, agrees that the tide has turned.
But these results were to be expected—given the relentless barrage of pro-gay media coverage and the overwhelmingly positive depiction of same-sex relationships in popular culture.
A recent New York Times article noted that people are “starting not to notice” when celebrities come out of the closet. The Times lamented that what was “once seen as a defiant and courageous act of such social and political significance” has “has lost some of its potency.”
I wonder why? Could it be that, if your perception of the world is shaped by pop culture, you expect a lot of people to be gay? Could it be that after years of being told by elite media, like the Times, that being gay is “no big deal,” people treat the news that someone is gay as “no big deal”?
The elite molders of opinion have done their job well. We live in a world where moral qualms about homosexuality are regarded as bigotry. Today it requires more courage, as well as strength, to swim against the cultural tide and express any reservation about homosexual relationships.
But swim we must. What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t “democratic”—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
Of course, that idea is even less popular than our beliefs about same-sex relationships. We in the West have elevated autonomy, which literally means “self law” into our highest value. Now listen to me folks, this is going to be a wake-up call. The tide has turned against Christian in the culture because we haven't been doing our job in the church. Culture matters. Politics follows culture. That's why we've got to start making a better case. You can come to the Colson Center and get all kinds of resources to winsomely present our arguments.
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality” - Michael Ellner
Step one, get your kids out of public school while you still can.
‘...“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality” - Michael Ellner’...
YES! And, it cannot last..
When more hetereosexual couples are living together outside of marriage than within....it is no wonder that the polls reflect that a majority no longer see homosexuality as immoral. Sex outside of heterosexual marriage is “immoral.”
Since the majority of heterosexuals don’t want to admit they are “immoral” in their behavior, they are more likely to not call homosexuals immoral.
Until there is a return to “moral” conduct among the heterosexual community.....don’t expect them to care about other immorality. It just makes them feel like hypocrits. The basis for calling homosexual conduct is the Bible....but that same Bible calls non-marital hetersexual behavior immoral as well. Folks don’t want to accept that, so they are inclined to toss everything else as well.
Where did they poll?
San Franciso?
The surge in homosexual power rests squarely on those who have trashed marriage over the past 4 decades through easy divorce and Las Vegas-style marriages. And the Church must share in the blame for this just as much as popular culture. When ministers will marry divorced men and women, against all the teachings of Scripture, bestowing the “blessing” of God on them, what else can we expect?
I must be in the minority again.
I cannot watch any movie with Rock Hudson and a woman, knowing that he was a fruit sort of spoils the love scenes with women.
Are we a free society or an anything goes society? I’m getting very confused in my old age. How are we defining freedom? Agrrrrrrraaaaaaahhhh. (Rhet.)
...Same reason I can't watch the Brady Bunch(Robert Reed) or Star Trek(Miss Sulu)anymore....
“The Overhauling of Straight America”. Compliments of our friends at massresistance.org.
The Overhauling of Straight America
by Marshall K. Kirk and Erastes Pill
The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights. To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register differences in sexual preference the way they register different tastes for ice cream or sports games: she likes strawberry and I like vanilla; he follows baseball and I follow football. No big deal.
At least in the beginning, we are seeking public desensitization and nothing more. We do not need and cannot expect a full “appreciation” or “understanding” of homosexuality from the average American. You can forget about trying to persuade the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if only you can get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders, then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won. And to get to shoulder-shrug stage, gays as a class must cease to appear mysterious, alien, loathsome and contrary. A large-scale media campaign will be required in order to change the image of gays in America.
And any campaign to accomplish this turnaround should do six things...
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/gay_strategies/overhauling.html
Kirk and Hunter Madsen followed the propaganda up with “After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s”.
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”- Edmund Burke
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”- John Adams
The implications for our nation’s future are both enormous and grim.
Let the “tolerant” crowd of any political persuasion chew on those quotes for a while!
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