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 ...
He’s gone.
No fireworks? I want fireworks.
Thanks for letting me know!
LOLOLOL! I guess so. :)
Stench of troll instantly.
Yes, many times devil's advocates are actually advocates of the devil...
I expect to see more as the leftists are literally funding such undercover propagandists. The writing is on the wall and they become desperate.
I’ve never, ever seen the attraction of being “the devil’s advocate”. And when people do it, it always seems as though they’re heart is in it, if you know what I mean.
No TechnoTard, the best obtainable solution is to alter the negative trajectory of our national Socio-Biological fitness level by acknowledging the Truth that, among other things, two male penguins can't lay an egg and produce viable offspring - not even in the Sanfransicko Zoo.
"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN
WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--
Thomas Jefferson
Got Fitness?
Even more Americans would opppose homosexuality if they were given honest information instead of that Hollywood pap that we are exposed to on tv. When people are exposed to the big lie over and over again for twenty years, of course many will succomb to the lie. We need to get the truth about this lifestyle out there.
The left controls the media, education, many religious institutions: the commanding heights of culture. The people follow like sheep, even self-proclaimed conservatives.
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