Posted on 05/14/2012 8:33:17 AM PDT by kevcol
A new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples - though not necessarily through the official act of marriage - and the number of people who do support full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples is significantly higher among younger generations.
Overall, 38 percent of those who responded to the survey said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, just like any other couple. Another 24 percent said civil unions should be used to grant same-sex couples legal rights similar to male-female partnerships. Combined, that means 62 percent - close to two thirds - of Americans believe that same-sex unions should be recognized by law.
Of all those who participated, 33 percent said there should be no legal recognition for same-sex couples.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
The only recognition that the queers deserve is that they are a stink in God’s nostrils and society at large.
Support? Or tolerate. There’s a big difference.
Some of it is due to the fact younger people/independents etc who poll "yes" for it don't vote and people who vote "against" are generally older and conservative. People get more conservative as they get older or realize they are being fleeced by the gov't.
Marriage is becoming obsolete, 4 in 10 say
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/11/18/20101118marriage-study.html#ixzz1urU3tjeV
Marriage as we have always known it probably won’t exist in another 20 years.
WASHINGTON — Unmarried mothers gave birth to 4 out of every 10 babies born in the United States in 2007, a share that is increasing rapidly both here and abroad, according to government figures released Wednesday.
Before 1970, most unmarried mothers were teenagers. But in recent years the birthrate among unmarried women in their 20s and 30s has soared — rising 34 percent since 2002, for example, in women ages 30 to 34. In 2007, women in their 20s had 60 percent of all babies born out of wedlock, teenagers had 23 percent and women 30 and older had 17 percent.
Much of the increase in unmarried births has occurred among parents who are living together but are not married, cohabitation arrangements that tend to be less stable than marriages, studies show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/health/13mothers.html?_r=1
And this was three years ago. I assume it has gotten worse. Marriage with children used to be the bedrock of our society. No longer.
The divorce rate has supposedly gone down because fewer people are marrying.
http://marriage101.org/divorce-rates-in-america/
I fear the unraveling of American society will continue.
How do they dissolve a civil union? Are civil unions available to heterosexual couples? What about close relatives? Can I have a civil union with a friend to get on her health insurance? If civil unions are “just as good” as marriage, why marry? It is all so confusing!
I think the gay marriage issue is just another attempt to degrade the culture. I have no particular problem with civil unions, but marriage is a wall that shouldn’t be torn down, and that is exactly what this attempt is, an attempt to tear down a cultural wall of longstanding.
If it goes down, it’s only a matter of time before the wall goes down (already down in some other cultures) dictating that marriage should involve only two people, and we’ll get polygamy legalized.
Ultimately the Man-Boy love crowd (of which there aren’t many perhaps, but who are the most radical of the bunch) will attack the concept of prohibiting minors from marrying adults, and then you’ll have cultural chaos, exactly as intended.
I’d like to think the liberal press and Hollywood are just dupes in all this, but their complicity is too obvious to draw that conclusion. We are never going to see a mainstream television series that portrays the Man-Boy Love crowd for the degenerates that they are, for example. And we are never going to get a TV series that puts the threatening actions of the gay activists on full display either, nor a balanced report in the MSM detailing the despicable tactics directed at those with whom they disagree.
Leave the decision to the States. We know which ones will legalize gay marriage anyway, since their fiscal policies are as bankrupt as their cultural policies. The farther left those states go, the less the likelihood that the rest of us will consent to bailing them out when they hit their financial Armageddon.
CBS is trying to “civil union” equals homosexual marriage BS the voters.
This is just commie propaganda style incrimentalism. (see the old outer limits (?) episode called “the flag”)
Homosexuality is a disease. They know this to be true just as we always have known it. What this really is about is the homosexuals engaged in an aggenda to be accepted and seen as normal. They have to understand that they will never be normal. It is a disease with no cure.
There are layers to “what this is really about”.
The homos want acceptance of their mental illness as “normal”.
The left wants to use the homos as a weapon in the war on traditional/Christian values and the family as a concept.
They’re not reporting on reality, they’re attempting to create it.
In any case, nature is what nature is, no matter what anyone thinks about it.
And in more than thirty states, when the question has been put to the people, they have overwhelmingly supported real marriage. Even in states that are supposedly heavily liberal.
Pretty soon the gays will be the only ones getting married;o) Seriously, those trends are becoming more obvious; thanks for the stats.
Yes to “civil unions” but no to “marriage”? Sorry, it’s a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
This sort of “I’ll accept this but not that” myopia is why Aristotle said the young should stay out of politics.
Homosexual behavior was declared abhorrent to the Lord in the LAW of God. Yes, in the Old Testament; but repeated in the New Testament by Paul clearly in the book of Romans. - Christ was not quoted on the matter, but He kept the WHOLE LAW perfectly in order to be qualified to be our substitution on the cross.
I would that no one indulge in homosexual behavior; but I know I cannot tell those so inclined what to do. They aren’t getting anywhere changing man’s laws in many of the states. They certainly aren’t getting anywhere trying to change God’s laws ANYWHERE as far as the Lord is concerned.
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