Posted on 04/05/2014 6:21:16 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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First, it is difficult to overstate the effect of the generation gap. A decade ago, when most of these same-sex marriage bans were passed across the South, the vast majority of today’s Millennials were neither counted in public-opinion surveys of adults nor eligible to vote. Their attitudes strongly diverge from their parents and grandparents. Nationwide, nearly seven in 10 (69 percent) Americans ages 18 to 33 favor same-sex marriage, compared to just 37 percent of Americans ages 68 and older. This generation gap is evident in virtually every subgroup in America, including among southerners. Today, nearly two thirds of southern Millennials (65 percent) support same-sex marriage, compared to just 28 percent of southerners in the Silent Generation.
Second, and perhaps not surprisingly given the value southerners place on hospitality, there is a growing “friends and family effect” at work in southerners’ changing attitudes. Despite the generally conservative cultural climate, more gay and lesbian southerners are coming out to those who are close to them. Nearly two thirds of southerners (64 percent) today say they have a close friend or family member who is gay or lesbian, a factor that strongly influences support for same-sex marriage. Within that group, 56 percent favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally; among southerners with no gay or lesbian close friends or family members, only 32 percent favor same-sex marriage.
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Finally, there is some evidence in the recent survey that southerners may be rediscovering a value that is part of the historical DNA of groups such as Southern Baptists: the separation of church and state. Southerners are drawing a distinction between personal moral objections to same-gender sexual relationships and support for public policy that would legally recognize same-sex marriage.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
What has happened is so simple a blind man could see it.
We have been subjected to at least 50 years of liberal and radical brainwashing by the media. Brainwashing is the right word too. Simple Pavlovian conditioning. Every time you see a liberal idea presented in a positive way and a conservative idea presented as evil, it begins to add up and eventually become part of one’s way of thinking.
They’ve ‘taken’ San Antonio with the Castros, and we’ll see if the local Latinos can be rustled out of their work/marriage/kids/home life pre-occupation to get out and vote the Lavender Mafia OUT.
What election did this happen in?
“one thing I refuse to believe is that kids try homosexuality as an experiment. “
I second that. The visceral reaction against homosexuality is very real. At least for males- we’ll have to let the distaff side speak for themselves.
It’s amazing isn’t it, how much this country has been destroyed and perverted in such a short period of time. Everyone complains that we will leave a country in ruin for our children. Perhaps the ruin is what they need to wake up from the delusions that have been fed to them at public schools.
I honestly ask all conservatives, what good will be done for the future generation if we hand off to them a country where they can still spend their entire lives glued to T.V. and cell phone screens, yelling racist and homophobe at anyone who disagrees with them, ignorant of our history, constitutional founding, or the reality of God? A country where everything comes easy?
What made the earlier generations of this land, and that includes those who founded it, is that life was not strawberries and cream. You couldn’t afford to be decadent and lazy. There was a country to build, a life to make. It’s sad to say, but when nations become as rich as we have become, they do have a shelf-life. In the absence of some kind of soft authoritarianism as in Singapore (which may not even work for them in the long run), it seems impossible to keep a harmony in life. The left tears society apart and conservatives become less and less able to resist them.
Though it may seem a contradiction in terms initially, the best thing for the young people of America may actually be the worst thing.
Ummm this guy sure as heck ain’t no southerner. To jump up and down about judges who are liberals (and they all have been who have made these decisions) to say that the whole of society is changing is just so much clap trap. You will not find a single southern state voting to allow ‘gay’ marriage.
Yes some attitudes are changing. In some ways it is like the west where they used to simply say don’t scare the horses.
A very recent poll, in the last five days. Trying to find it.
I hope it's not the same poll that assured us blacks would be fleeing the democrats over gay issues.
No, it was a poll showing a recent loss of 23% of Hispanic support for zero. It’s here, I just have to find it.
Simply “stunning”! Not “chilling”, it’s “stunning”. Freakin’ reporters.
This was not the article, but one similar to it:
Poll: 71% of Obama voters, 55% Democrats ‘regret’ voting for his re-election
The Washington Examiner ^ | February 18,2014 | PAUL BEDARD
Posted on 2/18/2014 10:10:50 AM by Hojczyk
Over seven in 10 Obama voters, and 55 percent of Democrats, regret voting for President Obama’s reelection in 2012, according to a new Economist/YouGov.com poll.
Conducted to test the media hype about a comeback by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the new poll found voters still uninspired by Romney, but also deeply dissatisfied with Obama who has so far failed to capitalize on his victory over 15 months ago.
The poll asked those who voted for Obama’s reelection a simple question: “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?”
— Overall, 71 percent said yes, 26 percent no.
— 80 percent of whites said yes, 61 percent of blacks said no and 100 percent of Hispanics said yes.
— 84 percent of women said yes, and just 61 percent of men agreed.
— 55 percent of Democrats said yes, as did 71 percent of independents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3124337/posts
Franklin Graham..... ‘who have questioned Barack Obama’s faith’. Faith in what? Abortion? Marxism? Allah? who knows, it changes with the wind and he throws money at everything. Zero thinks he is God.
Yeah, but the fact that you had a traffic circle in the first place means that you guys allowed a bunch of europhile anti-American scum into your traffic planning departments. It was all downhill from there. Now, you guys are buggery central.
The lesson here? Yes, the slippery slope is real! :p
They do know what they’re doing. This is how propaganda works. It’s all about convincing the individual that the people around them accept it. And since we can’t read minds, we rely on what we see around us and what the media is continuously promoting. While we personally don’t believe it, we can get to a point to where we think that others believe it. Then we act accordingly (fear to speak out) because we want to avoid social reprimands, and consequences. Then, of course, there are the examples that the propagandists make of people who go against their wishes. Like the executive who resigned because he gave donation to an anti gay marriage group. Since the mainstream media are firmly under liberal control, the individual must come out against it. Tell your neighbors, friends and family what you think. Be not afraid. Speak out and more people will be encouraged to do so as well.
As a southerner I can testify 100% that we have NOT embraced gay marriage. What nonsense.
Washington State as well, IIRC.
The main ones succumbing to the radical left ideology are those who have known nothing else unless they got it from their parent.
The conditioning has been going on for more than 50 years but in the last 20, they smell blood and have stepped it up to a point I would have never believed I would hear in this country.
Depends on whether you consider Maryland "southern," but yes, I get your point. You won't see gay marriage pass in Georgia any time soon.
I don’t think so!
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