Posted on 06/11/2008 8:05:46 AM PDT by SmithL
It's because younger people today — those under, say, 45 or so — have been far more exposed to the gay "lifestyle" and to more fluid notions of gender and sexuality, to the idea of homosexuality as a common, nonthreatening, everyday, what's-the-big-deal shrug, and therefore, as a demographic, they/we understand that allowing gay people to wed doesn't actually mean our shaky notions of God and family and society will collapse like a priest's willpower at a Boy Scout jamboree.
This, I think, was perhaps the most fascinating tidbit of insight to emerge from the most recent poll of Californians where, for the first time in state history, a majority of those polled said they support the idea of gay marriage and/or oppose a new and vile push for a state constitutional amendment to ban it outright. And that majority consists, by and large, of the young.
It's an intriguing — if slightly morbid — thing to note, because on the flip side, the poll also found that most people over age 65 don't like the idea of gay marriage one little bit because, well, they usually can't exactly explain why, though it's not difficult to guess: It's what they were taught, what was implied, it's what their own parents passed on to them, as did their church, their culture, society as it was during their upbringing, and it was largely a narrow and repressed and sexually unaware period that finally, mercifully seems to be gasping its last.
And hence the obvious conclusion: It's only because the "Greatest Generation" is finally dying off that something like gay...
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It's an intriguing — if slightly morbid — thing to note, because on the flip side, the poll also found that most people over age 65 don't like the idea of gay marriage one little bit because
And who votes more Morfordite?
Have fun in November!
It's no foregone conclusion. I bet if you looked into the demographics of the supporters of the California Marriage Amendment, you'd find a great diversity of ages, races, income levels, educational degrees, etc. In short, the kind of real diversity that's anathema to liberals.
Gay’s teaching children how to have sex.
Precisely. I see the polling on this issue the same way I see the polling on Obama v McCain. No one wants to admit to a pollster that they aren’t voting for the (MARXIST) Black guy or against (LEGALLY UNNECESSARY) marriage for homosexuals for fear of being viewed a racist or a homophobe (which is stupid - what do homophobes do? Run screaming from the room when Will & Grace is on?)
In the privacy of the voting booth, however....it’s another story.
more slams against the Catholic church, whose traditional tenets if followed are the most vocal against perverts,immorality, abortions, etc.....
Godless....valueless...meaningless.....a nothing culture with nothing to live for.....that's where we are headed....
sometimes I feel like we can't sink any lower...
I promise myself that I will not live among perverts, among satanists, among evil leftist.....if we have to move to Alaska and live in the bush we will...( or Montana or Wyoming..out in the dry country where nobody goes).
we would be pleased to have other God-fearing patriots join us, if it gets to that.....
Nope, they just do what a lot of us would do: suppress our vapid-TV-show gag reflex.
“for the first time in state history, a majority of those polled said they support the idea of gay marriage and/or oppose a new and vile push for a state constitutional amendment to ban it outright. And that majority consists, by and large, of the young.”
Q. What do you call a politician that depends on the youth vote?
A. A loser.
Monkey Business
http://boknowsonline.com/2008/06/11/monkey-business/
Posted on 06/12/2008 11:48:12 AM PDT by fings
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