Posted on 04/21/2011 4:42:01 AM PDT by technonerd
A poll from CNN this week is the latest to show a majority of Americans in favor of same-sex marriage, with 51 percent saying that marriages between gay and lesbian couples “should be recognized by the law as valid” and 47 percent opposed.
This is the fourth credible poll in the past eight months to show an outright majority of Americans in favor of gay marriage....
As we noted last August, support for gay marriage seems to have been increasing at an accelerated pace over the past couple of years. Below is an update to the graph from last year’s article, which charts the trend from all available public polls on same-sex marriage going back to 1988.
...Both the California and Maine results were close, and because opinion is shifting so quickly on the issue, the outcomes would probably be different if they were voted on again today....
But Republican candidates, who have placed less emphasis on gay marriage in recent years, probably cannot expect their opposition to it to be a net electoral positive for them except in select circumstances. If support for gay marriage were to continue accelerating as fast as it has in the past two years, supporters would outnumber opponents roughly 56-40 in the general population by November 2012....
One way to read the trends of the past few years is that we have passed an inflection point wherein it is no longer politically advantageous for candidates to oppose same-sex marriage, which in turn softens opposition to it among the general public, creating a sort of feedback loop and accelerating the trend.
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Exactly. If the rest of us hadn’t been spineless coward neutered bunny rabbits, the homo-agenda would be in the closet where it belongs.
Propaganda is a much simpler word troll.
Take a look at the Proposition 8 analysis -that is reality.
Same here.
So, you joined FR last week to try to get us to drop social conservatism? Or is technonerd not your first FR name?
The question is: where to go from here?
For actual conservatives, the answer to that will ALWAYS be to continue to advance conservatism.
The best obtainable solution is probably to sidestep the problem by separating marriage and state.
Are you a retread, or did you simply join to promote sodomy? Marriage is a solemn union between ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN, anything else is a satanic abomination.
Perhaps you should read this:
Possible “Non-Sequitur”.......
Just shows why it’s important, as was said upthread, to keep winning elections.
It also shows what I feel is a basic disconnect, where the majority of the population seems willing to grant special rights to two percent of the population.
We don’t need your advice.
That's what I said -- advance conservatism; get the government out of its entanglements with everything under the sun.
This is just your agenda driven propaganda...
Nate Silver must be a little light in the loafers...
technonerd
Since Apr 14, 2011
Hmmm...
I realize that you and your libertarian ilk are prey to some sort of alternate history, but the FACT remains that governments have been involved in licensing marriages since medieval times. It is a historical and traditional function of government, especially those governments that have their roots in English Common Law.
Now, libertarians love to say that we should just get the government out of marriages, but this is often because they don't want to admit that they favor homosexual marriage.
In no way does your proposal "advance conservatism," all it does is further the destruction of America.
Exactly right!
Amen to that.
I’ve seen some of Ron Paul’s acolytes advance the idea that we should get government out of marriage in public forums that had a cross section of participants. The radical gay activists stood to their feet and cheered when these ideas were voiced. This is no coincidence. They know damned well that if marriage is not protected on every single front they will divide and conquer us all. Just like they are doing now because the Republicans are almost all a bunch of judicial supremacists.
Stupid is laboring under the impression that marriage can be separated from the state. Who judges when it comes time to dissolve a marriage. You?
They’re lying.
Governments have set wages and prices by edict since at least the time of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. That's a bad idea, too.
They want to get the government out of everything, that's how they advance their immoral agenda.
Sometimes I honestly wonder where the libertarians get their history, because what the Founding Fathers believed and did is VERY DIFFERENT from what the libertarians portray.
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Yes. This "poll" is pure propaganda.
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