Posted on 03/11/2014 2:08:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you were wondering why CPAC was so light on traditional-marriage rhetoric from the podium, here’s why. An event populated mainly by young conservatives and libertarians isn’t a good venue for that anymore.
You’ll hear more of it, I’m sure, at the convention two years from now. But at the rate we’re going, probably not too much more. Where will the 30-49 group be in 2016?
The most striking numbers there, actually, are how small the differences are between various Democratic age groups. It’s an astounding consensus to have 18-year-old and 65-year-old Dems both above 60 percent support and within 15 points of each other on a practice that was barely on the cultural radar 20 years ago. Makes me wonder how many senior-citizen votes the GOP picked up over the last decade as the 65+ demographic sorted itself out. And how many younger votes it lost.
Pew’s not the only pollster lately showing majority support for gay marriage among young GOPers, either. A few weeks ago, the NYT/CBS poll found 56 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 in favor of legalized SSM. (Just 29 percent of Republicans age 45 or older agreed.) That’s a rare case of sharp disagreement on an issue among different conservative age demographics. The same poll found the two groups within five points of each other on guns, abortion, the minimum wage, and ObamaCare, The only other prominent outlier was — ta da — marijuana legalization, where 43 percent of younger Republicans support legalization versus only 28 percent of older ones.
Exit question: Given Republican sensitivity to changing demographics and the fact that millennials might be more gettable next time than last, is there a single major 2016 candidate who’s likely to spend much time on gay marriage on the stump? The only one I can think of is Huckabee, who may calculate that his only path to victory is consolidating social conservatives. Everyone else, including social cons like Cruz and Rubio, will probably take a federalist approach to traditional marriage.
Then they are not Republicans. They are Trojan Horses from the Libertarian wing.
Behold the coming nightmare.
When our generation is gone, it is over.
who cares? poll is probably scewed
Here’s the better question:
Should individuals be forced to support and service homosexual behavior?
“Pew poll: 61% of Republicans under age 30 support legalizing gay marriage”
Public education and MSM are the root cause of changes in social morays.
“Public education and MSM are the root cause of changes in social morays.”
...Along with those “anything goes” Commercials.........
20 years of propaganda by Hollywood and the public schools has done it’s work. Plus the right has done a terrible job explaining why it’s a bad idea.
The Rome-ulans like to repeat that “The Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church,” but the Gates of Hollywood have. The closet thing we have to a common religion is pop culture.
Oregon Republican conference overwhelmingly votes to support homosexual marriage http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/GOP-gay-marriage-division-on-display-at-conference-5300562.php
Why?
“who cares? poll is probably scewed”
My sense is that this poll is probably correct. Kids these days are steeped in political-correctness from the time they start (public) schools. The majority learn early-on to go with the flow.
The media is controlled by liberals and so are the schools. The Republican establishment cares only about their tax preferences and as long as they get that they see no evil. I think the people who own the media(rich libs) and the people who don’t but ought to (rich pubbies). Should just be made to pay their taxes. As it stands now we are apt to lose everything else so maybe in desperation we should just support taxing the people who are to blame. If there is any hope of turning i around this may be the only way. Tax them out of thier feckless and duplicity I say.
Pretty damn sad.
No, the better question is how do we stop and reverse the libertarian message of “”Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.””.
That is a lot of young sick people and a lot of young fools. Sad.
Why are the Churches so weak in the face of popular culture? BTW: The wealthy that you complain about pay much more taxes than others, and in places like New York City, it is essentially the wealthy that fund the government.
With youth, it’s all about dope and homosex.
America continues its toxic slide into evil and depravity. There’s no doubt in my mind that this country is entering into its death-spiral.
Uh, didn’t they say this a couple of years ago (right down to the percentage)?
Very good article here about the gay lobby and it’s effect on society. Apparently the author was “sold” to 2 lesbians as a child and you can tell he isn’t happy about it.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/breeders_how_gay_men_destroyed_the_left.html
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