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Sadly, in my experience, what you say is accurate. (WARNING LONG POST AHEAD).

I’m 34 and was raised in church-going Hispanic Catholic family. In my teens I was very liberal: pro-socialist, pro-”gay”, pro-”choice”, etc. Attending NYU in Manhattan and witnessing how hateful & hypocritical most of the rich, liberal, out-of-state students were, and how racist the affirmative action structure of academia was, changed me from liberal to libertarian. Having a child and actually experiencing life turned me conservative.

My siblings are 33, 30, 27 and 25. We were all raised in the same house and attended the same public schools. My 4 sisters married Catholic men in a Catholic Church and they ADORE gay men and have no problem with sham marriages! The 33-year-old is ultra-religious, so her adoration is even more peculiar (she is a graduate of Columbia University and a child psychologist in Williamsburg, Bklyn) My 25-year-old brother is more concerned with finding a job, but he has no theological issue with homosexual marriage, despite graduating from Notre Dame a “Catholic” college.

Socially, I am very conservative about abortion & the homosexual agenda—and yes, Virginia, there is an agenda, but it’s goes further than just homosexuality: it’s about guiltless, barren, pansexuality with no limits. (I’m no prude, BTW, but believe in 1 man & 1 woman marriage). I am more “libertarian” about drugs, gambling & prostitution (it is wrong, but shouldn’t be a crime; pimping/being a “madame”, on the other hand, should be a Class I felony).

Ironic that it’s only I, the “lapsed” Catholic (who married a pagan in a civil ceremony) who is against homosexual marriage. It’s wrong theologically, ethically, biologically and socially. I won’t argue that fact anymore than I’d argue that gravity doesn’t exist.

But for the most of the younger generation:
1)Everyone knows a “nice” gay person/couple/crowd.
2)Queers on tv are so great at giving fashion/designer advice.
3)That hairstylist Marc is such a sweetie-pie.
4)Not liking gays means you’re a BULLY.
5)Hatred is evil and should be illegal.
6)The Bible says something about not judging, but it also says you can’t eat crabs so who believes that 2,000 year-old Spaghetti Monster crap anyway
7)Marriage isn’t sacred or about family, not when you can have drive-through marriages, and quickie divorces and split up kids from their parents so that parents can “be happy.”
8)Guys think hot lezzies are sexy.
9)EVERYBODY has kinky sex [you know what I mean], so who is any person to judge what goes on in the bedroom or outside of it.
10)TV, movies, comic-books, commercials, websites, romance novels, billboards, bumper stickers, politicians, schools, corporations, human resource departments, etc., are all dedicated to promote “Gay is ok.”

Even my 71-year-old F-I-L says, “You gotta go withthe times.”

It’s all about peace and harmony and “tolerance” and love. Love is love is love. (No apologies to Dorothy Parker).

You’re right, the younger generations (and a lot of the older ones) are mostly all for it. So is there a “solution” for tradionalists? Yes. Be pro-matrimony and pro-healthy environment. Get married; be spiritually faithful & physically monogomous to your spouse; be loving and show it; do not use hormonal birth control; try to have stress-free pregnancy; marriage is not about two people’s happiness, it’s about man, woman & child & their purpose in this world; while pregnant, don’t be a vegan or eat unfermented soy; get rid of phytoestrogen-inducing plastics, insecticides and foods when pregnant; support your children when they do well, love them when they do wrong, but do not support their errors; and above all: believe that we humans were made male and female in the image of God, and it is only through holy matrimony that the male and female unite as one and become closer to God.

If that’s not for you, then don’t get married.