I think it is believable.
1) Many, many otherwise Conservative and religious people have siblings and children who are openly gay and married. I know of such instances. They are not rare or unusual and the majority of friends, families and acquaintances support, cheer and openly offer public congratulations. In one instance I know of, the elderly relatives are being kept in the dark, so far. Of course, they may be totally aware of the situation and just holding their tongue for now.
2) Many, if not most people just do not care about such things. They regard them as personal, private and totally acceptable. There are far more classical liberals than true social conservatives on the right.
3)People with religious objections to same-sex marriage or open homosexuality are in the minority, numerically and culturally. The majority has proven they will not allow private convictions concerning the minorities that go against the majority to stand in the marketplace.
Everyone will continue to believe as they will. But if you are in business, be aware that the support is on the side of the homosexuals. If you have a wedding business, a restaurant,a retail establishment, any personal service business,you turn people away on socially conservative grounds at your own peril. Beyond that, people will turn such business owners in, will demand they be prosecuted under the law, will denigrate them on social media and will go to inordinate lengths to destroy them economically and socially.
Take your own rule-of-thumb poll and do not pre-select the respondents. If you find 5% in favor among a random selection of people you know, especially casual acquaintances, then you can expect the more rigorous polls to be correct.
It is what it is. Refusal to believe or accept could rebound against you.
I think not, “reformedliberal”.
SOME “conservative and religious people have siblings and children who are openly gay and married.” It is nowhere near “many, many”
SOME people “do not care about such things”; most of us DO, and most of us despise homosexuality.
“People with religious objections to...open homosexuality” are NOT in the minority -— numerically, culturally or in any other aspect., for that matter.
Homosexuality is flat-out perversion. You know it, I know it, and the overwhelming majority of Americans know it.
“Many, many otherwise Conservative and religious people have siblings and children who are openly gay and married.”
Mincing through a sodomite play-pretend marriage ceremony does not make them married.
They are accomplices in sodomy, nothing more dignified than that.