[Mrs. Don-o]

The comments after his article are pretty interesting, too.

Bottom line: don't trust the polls.

In my own estimation, the youthful polling strength for gay activism is much like youthful support for the Left: "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

[relictele]

Young people also want to eat a diet of Hershey bars and Captain Crunch and want the workday to begin at 11 and end at 2.

I’ve never understood why inexperience (at best) and ignorance (at worst) is given so much credence.

[Marie]

I do believe this.

My kids are 18 and 20. Males of this age range are the most ‘homophobic’ of any other group that I’ve encountered. ‘Gay’ is an insult and they look on homosexual males with disgust.

“Tolerant” is truly the word that describes them. They tolerate that which they detest.

The girls, on the other hand, try to be compassionate with their gay peers, but they are still uncomfortable.

These kids (15-21) are just becoming comfortable with their own sexuality. They find things which are outside of the norm to be very disagreeable.

[umgud]

Perception is not alway reality, but the spin-doctors always try to create the perception.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Of course, they want you to think there’s something wrong with you if you don’t accept gay marriage. No one wants to think there’s something wrong with them, do they? Especially young people.

[Tax-chick]

This combination of pro-business economics with sexual liberationism—let’s call it Bloombergism—is the new consensus around which the Democratic Party is built.

I think the author is mistaken about "pro-business economics," unless one specifies that only certain businesses, those which are hand-in-glove with the government, can expect to benefit, and these businesses need not do anything that benefits the public, such as producing a product or providing a service that people would freely choose to purchase.

[Jack Hammer]

Not too surprising - in support of their atheist, Social Utopianist agenda, the media misreport pretty much everything.

[manc]

well someone frgot to tell the yoyng ones down here as my oldest has pals over right now and not one of them agree with the homo’s nor do any of their pals , maybe if this writer and others got out of the north east and parts on the west coast then they might understand that the country is very different.

[scottjewell]

Thanks so much for posting this piece: I had long believed - and hoped - that youth support of same-sex marriage was exaggerated. Now this confirms that.

[justiceseeker93]

This combination of pro-business economics with sexual liberationism—let’s call it Bloombergism—is the new consensus around which the Democratic Party is built.

Huh? This writer Matthew Schmitz seems awfully confused on this point.

Some may think of, at least crudely, a "combination of pro-business economics with sexual liberationism" as being a "libertarian" notion. But to associate "a combination of pro-business economics with sexual liberationism" with Michael Bloomberg and/or today's 'Rat Party is simply absurd. "Sexual liberationism" may fit there but certainly not "pro-business economics."

Since when does nanny-statism, Bloomberg's trademark, belong as part of "pro-business economics"? The two shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath!!!

[scottjewell]

“... we should not be surprised to see the increase in youth support stop when the issue leaves the headlines (or when young people move off campuses and into the suburbs where there is less social pressure in favor of the elite consensus).”

Another excellent point the author makes.