Posted on 04/30/2009 10:32:47 AM PDT by steve-b
Within just a few days this month, the push for gay marriage found a wave of fresh momentum. A unanimous state Supreme Court decision legalized the practice in Iowa. The state legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and instituted the practice in Vermont. And Democratic Gov. David A. Paterson announced plans to push legislation that would open the door to the practice in New York.
Beyond the political and legal arguments on the issue, however, are demographic shifts indicating that the controversy over same-sex unions may eventually fade altogether. Younger Americans are far more supportive of civil unions and gay marriage than older generations; in December, pollsters for Newsweek found that 51 percent of people between ages 18 and 34 support gay marriage, compared with 39 percent of all respondents.
Leaders of evangelical Christian organizations — the most vocal opponents of gay marriage as the issue polarized the electorate for much of this decade — now face a similar divide in their own ranks. In a survey last fall by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Inc., 58 percent of white evangelicals ages 18 to 29 said they support either civil unions or gay marriage; support dropped to 46 percent among white evangelicals who were older than that. (Asked about gay marriage exclusively, the support figures were 26 percent for the younger group and 9 percent for the older group.)
"The data do show a growing divide between younger and older evangelicals. There clearly is a generational difference,” said Amy E. Black, a political scientist at Wheaton College, an evangelical liberal arts school in Illinois. She characterizes the thinking among many younger evangelicals as, "What big deal is civil unions, really? What I care about is the environment, or what I care about is human rights."...
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How anyone who calls themselves “Christian” could support the atrocity known as gay marriage, abortion, or Obama, for that matter, is beyond my comprehension.
I’d swear the MSM screens these people.
Many of these “evangelicals” are simply not Christians anyway. At best, they are infant Christians. The depth of their theological knowledge is limited to “Jesus loves you”. They’re only interested in pop music and good feelings.
It’s not surprising when you consider that many clergy and churchgoing folks, evangelical and otherwise, have treated marriage rather lightly in the past couple generations. Divorce? No big deal. Premarital sex? No big deal. Living together without benefit of clergy? No big deal. So why shouldn’t the youth, the primary victims of that marriage devaluation, now say, “civil unions? No big deal.”
They do and the Leftists have their own versions of Christianity for perverts.
Exactly.
You have definitely hit the nail on the head.
Ask them what Sodom and Gommorah was about.
I have found that the most valuable information I have received has come from those who have experienced much more than me. How arrogant are those who think that they already know everything about life. I LOVE talking to people who have experienced more than me. I wish the rest of my generation felt the same.
” In a survey last fall by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Inc., 58 percent of white evangelicals ages 18 to 29 said they support either civil unions or gay marriage; support dropped to 46 percent among white evangelicals who were older than that. (Asked about gay marriage exclusively, the support figures were 26 percent for the younger group and 9 percent for the older group.) “
Is this like the survey of “Catholics” who never go to church that came out earlier this year (it showed protestants more strict on abortion, premarital sex, homosexuality... than “Catholics”)?
I agree with you 100%. I don’t see how any true evangelical could support gay civil union/marriage. As I understand it, the term “evangelical” refers to Christians who believe that the Bible means what it says. Thus, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament where it says a man shall not lie with a man as with a women, that’s a pretty clear statement against the practice. One cannot, therefore, proclaim to be an evangelical and support gay marriage, unless one is, as you say, an “infant Christian,” who is ignorant of scripture. It just doesn’t follow.
If they even have an answer they will spout some liberal garbage about how it was that the queers were inhospitable to the two angels, that THAT was the sin of Sodom. Yeah right. There is no context for that position.
Well, the people saying that are not "evangelicals"; evangelicals care about evangelizing. Everything else takes a back seat to preaching the Gospel -- using words when needed...
As for the % voting for Obama despite his positions on stem cell research, abortion and queer marriage -- I can't fault them for that. The brand differentiation on those areas was at the bottom of the ticket. Not much in the 2008 election at the top of the ticket for a Christian.
I simply do not buy into this. You control the end result of such a survey by controlling the definition of the group you poll. If you toss in a ton of Unitarian/Universalist types into your definition of “evangelical”, of course you are going to get a skewed result. These polls are meaningles propaganda for those who endeavor to demoralize the Christian faithful!
There is supposed to be a great “falling away” before Christ’s return. It has already happened to others, but the Evangelicals have always been like the Marines of Christianity. No one else will be left to “fall away”. Signs of the times?
Why don't they have a followup poll then, and see if they feel any differently about the topic?
Young Evangelicals Break From Old on Gay Unions
Nonsense.
If the support Gay Unions or marriage or homosexual acts,then they are NOT Evangelicals......
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