Posted on 04/03/2014 4:57:49 PM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ned Flanders is considered one of the most likable characters on television. But according to a new poll, more people may have a positive view of Big Gay Al.
The public views homosexuals more favorably than evangelical Christians, according to a new survey of 1,000 likely 2016 voters.
According to the survey, 53 percent hold a favorable view of homosexuals. Only 42 percent said the same about evangelicals.
Homosexuals had fewer detractors than fundamentalists, as well. In all, 28 percent viewed evangelicals unfavorably, 10 percent more than those who held a similar view of homosexuals.
The polling firm and its funding have raised some eyebrows.
The survey was performed by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQRR), which was founded by Stanley Greenberg, President Bill Clinton's pollster during the 1992 presidential election.
It was commissioned by its client, the homosexual lobbying group Human Rights Campaign.
GQRR has worked for a host of liberal-progressive, pro-abortion, or homosexual groups or individuals.
Its advocacy group clients feature such left-wing groups as Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, NARAL Pro-Choice America, EMILY'S List, Pro-Choice Voter, MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals.
Aside from Clinton, prominent political clients include Al Gore, Walter Mondale, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Richardson, former Senator John Corzine, and numerous national and state Democratic party affiliates.
The newest poll found a cavernous gap on the issue of redefining marriage between people of faith and those who never attend church. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of people who attend religious services weekly oppose same-sex “marriage.” However, even more (84 percent) of those who never attend support same-sex “marriage.”
GQRR did not release demographic information about whether their poll was scientifically representative of the United States as a whole. However, national media portrayals of homosexuals have been overwhelmingly positive, while its coverage of evangelicals has typically been hostile.
The Family Research Council and the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission declined to comment on this story.
Or else
Tell me who paid for the poll and I’ll tell you what it says.
Not a problem, when the goats and sheep are segregated at the end.
5.56mm
mission accomplished
Like, I’d run my life by polls. Right.
What if this had been done by Rasmussen ?
Yea I agree there is something hinky about this poll.
They hated Christians and loved homos in Rome too. Didn’t turn out well.
Navel gazing would be more productive.
Exactly.
There hasn't been an honest poll in at least 8 years.
It would appear that this poll recognizes that a person cannot be both a homosexual and an evangelical “Christian”.
There is a silver lining to this dark cloud.
Unless you’re queer, I guess
Hollywood.
John 15:18-27
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’[a]
This gay-funded poll may be a little off, but our decadent nation is definitely headed in the wrong direction.
Many Americans dislike evangelicals because of guilt feelings. By contrast, homosexuals don’t go around preaching about icky things like God, the Bible and sexual restraint. Homosexuals have no sexual morals. Young adults shacked up and getting high on pot like people with no morals.
If we’re talking the Big Gay Al from Southpark, well I like him. Too bad more guys were not like him.
That’s okay. Conservative “evangelicals” have the lion’s share of guns, and when force is applied, we WILL use them.
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