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The public backlash over gay marriage has receded since a controversial decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 2003 to legalize those marriages stirred strong opposition, says a poll released Wednesday.
Gay marriage remains a divisive issue, with 51 percent opposing it, the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found. But almost two-thirds, 63 percent, opposed gay marriage in February 2004.
This is an ominous trend for the GOP. With a huge deficit, Detroit losing jobs by the second, a quagmire in Iraq, North Korea and Iran gaining strength on Bush's watch, Hurricane Katrina and the UAE ports fiasco - all the right wing had to campaign on was marriage. If this "wedge issue" is not as divisive as they had planned, they are in deep trouble in the midterm elections.
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And I'm sure most of those in favor of gay marriage are the younger generation. The future looks bleak for the radical right. Equality for gays and others will slowly come as the old bigots die off like shriveled horse corn in a November field. Bitchard Queer
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 10:01 AM
Not only that, but Gallup is saying that by an almost 6 in 10 margin these teens (age 13 to 17) are saying that being gay results from outside factors (nurture/environment) rather than being born that way. I believe the margin on that was 59-41.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 10:33 AM
Kurt is that all you do all day is look up homophobic shit. If teens think (the uneducated dumb ones) that being gay is caused by 'outside factors' than they have a lot of science to catch up on. And i dont care what ONE poll says, the fact is that younger people are much more open to gay equality and marriage than older people. No surprise there. I'm sure you're very disappointed about that. I've seen numerous articles in leading news magazines which contradict the gallup poll. It takes a long time, but history has shown that civil and equal rights movements eventually win out; and so will we!! BQ
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 11:34 AM
Anonymous...problem is, there is not "science" for them to study on this, because there is no proof...don't you think P-FLAG would boldly proclaim it if there were? (Even with the muddled soup of an explanation they attempt to give, or rather disprove?)
It's kind of like the modern democratic party who seem to be saying "Trust US to make America safe from terrorism. We don't have a plan and F*** you for even being stupid enough to suggest we should, but WE can do better." Always heat-lightning promises, but never (and I hope they prove me wrong) solid facts as to why they're in the right.
Back to these kids...if there was any scientific evidence for it, their public school textbooks would shout it at them. But right now there isn't.
And remember, the Pew Research Center (which published the poll Mr. Besen cited) also had a poll in the fall of 2004 of the characteristics of George W. Bush and John Kerry...in that poll, no one, when asked, believed that "honesty" was a word which they could associate with Sen. Kerry.
No one.
And that's a big part of your group's problem...
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 11:52 AM
In fact, anonymous, isn't it interesting that P-FLAG asks, in response to questions of why does someone become gay (or, ostensibly, straight): "Why ask why?"
If the evidence is truly there that same-sex attraction is genetic/inborn people absolutely SHOULD be told "why", not steered away from the question...
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 11:54 AM
The poll of high school students was just that, a poll of high schoolers. When I was in high school, everyone was homophobic. When I got to college, all of that turned on a dime. Such thinking was suddenly frowned upon and anyone who behaved that way was looked upon as backward and ignorant. All we had to do was look at the Frat Boys to know that we didn't wanted to appear that way to our friends and peers. Take a high school poll with a grain of salt, I say. When I was in high school, any gay marriage poll would NOT have yielded a 50-50 split. It would have been more like 92-8!
posted by Anonymous, at
3/23/2006 12:31 PM
Naturally Kurt cited a Baptist news service. The fact is the homo-bigots are on the wrong side of history and they know it. That's why they're so shrill and desparate.
posted by Sam, at
3/23/2006 3:44 PM
Sam,
The first link I cited was from Gallup...I tried to find a link on a GLBT web site about a more detailed breakdown, but all those news services did was provide the numbers on those who were for/against gay marriage. They didn't even breach the subject of the "nature/nurture" debate the pollster asked. The Baptist news link had the most complete information I could find, as the gallup.com link is a subscription one.
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