The South's Stunning Embrace of Gay Marriage

The Atlantic ^ | Mar 10 2014, 7:00 AM ET | Robert P. Jones

[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.

[windcliff]

Ain’t that sumpthin’.

[yarddog]

I think they have no idea what they are talking about.

I recall when the attacks began on Chik-fil-a, there were so many customers at the Dothan, Alabama one that they had to close down the traffic circle.

[Arlis]

One more generation of thorough Marxist/gov. education brainwashing, media affirmation and re-enforcement of same, absentee parents, and the wholesale rejection of God, and there will be no morals left at all.

And this country will die completely either internally, by outside conquest, or financial collapse. Maybe all three.

And almost no one sees where we are headed.......

[Viennacon]

I hope this next generation is ready to reap what they sow. It’s now hard to sympathize with them at all when Hannity says “we are robbing the next generation”. Who cares? They deserve to be robbed.

[Chode]

if the south moves into the faggot camp, all is lost...

[Vendome]

The number of gay azz teens walking around the mall today seem disproportionate....or not..

Be interesting to see how many FK’d up kids grow up only to discover see”That sucked. I was acting a fool, messing with other guys tools and I really like women”.

[kcvl]

Jones is frequently featured in major national media, including NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Nation,

Robert P. Jones beautifully chronicles progressive applications of religion to public life, December 2, 2008
By T. Krattenmaker (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life (Hardcover)

It’s gratifying to think of how much has changed since 2004, when publicly applied religion seemed to belong solely to conservatives. In this expertly researched and written book, Robert P. Jones beautifully chronicles how religious progressives are re-asserting themselves in the public square and showing an idealistic face of faith that seemed all but lost in the Bush years.

Submitted by:
Tom Krattenmaker
Religion writer and commentator
Member, USA Today Board of Contributors
Author of ONWARD CHRISTIAN ATHLETES (coming Spring 09)

[skinkinthegrass]

just Liberal Cr@p..Marxist &/ Queer lobby; infiltrating
"the South", thru their media shills..nothing more.

[cripplecreek]

I don't buy it. I have gay relatives and I don't support gay marriage because I have gay relatives and see the game up close and personal.

[RightGeek]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

More agitprop from the apparatchiks.

[Veggie Todd]

Do I hear banjo music?

[kcvl]

Robert P. Jones’s Recent Discussions

Franklin Graham ‘idiotic’ about Obama’s religion?

Franklin Graham is just one of the many conservative and Republican leaders who have questioned Barack Obama’s faith.

http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/robert_p_jones.html

[willywill]

“Be interesting to see how many FK’d up kids grow up only to discover see”That sucked. I was acting a fool, messing with other guys tools and I really like women”.”

one thing I refuse to believe is that kids try homosexuality as an experiment. if you’re straight, it’s a disgusting thought.
I really believe we’re seeing more for two reasons. one, they’re out more, ad two, just like autism, adhd, cancer etc,our environment is causing more illness, mentally and physically.

[Rashputin]

Now the traditional Southern reprimand of, “Now don't be ugly”, will take on a whole new range of meanings. As will, no doubt, “Ya’ll come”, when parting.

[txhurl]

Gay Mafia is not strategic, just ballistic.. they haven’t read that Democrats just lost 23% of Hispanics over the gay issue. Let ‘em keep pushing it louder and louder.. until their support system gets voted out of office.

[Olog-hai]

Trying to propagandize it into existence, I see.

Was the Atlantic ever a legit publication? Hmm.

[blueplum]

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.

First, it is difficult to overstate the effect of wholesale societal indoctrination of children to perversion over a generation. But their parents weren't as impressionable, and still aren't.

[BeadCounter]

They said that amendment in North Carolina for Traditional Marriage was going to be a close vote and the pro-traditional-marriage side had at least 60%+ so I call bunk.

By the way, Atlantic is located I’m rather sure in Massachusetts and was established there 150 years ago or something. It’s not as bad as Mother Jones but they definitely lean left and are probably highly Intellectual. Boring Magazine, once in awhile they’ll have a good article.