Posted on 06/11/2008 8:05:46 AM PDT by SmithL
It's because younger people today — those under, say, 45 or so — have been far more exposed to the gay "lifestyle" and to more fluid notions of gender and sexuality, to the idea of homosexuality as a common, nonthreatening, everyday, what's-the-big-deal shrug, and therefore, as a demographic, they/we understand that allowing gay people to wed doesn't actually mean our shaky notions of God and family and society will collapse like a priest's willpower at a Boy Scout jamboree.
This, I think, was perhaps the most fascinating tidbit of insight to emerge from the most recent poll of Californians where, for the first time in state history, a majority of those polled said they support the idea of gay marriage and/or oppose a new and vile push for a state constitutional amendment to ban it outright. And that majority consists, by and large, of the young.
It's an intriguing — if slightly morbid — thing to note, because on the flip side, the poll also found that most people over age 65 don't like the idea of gay marriage one little bit because, well, they usually can't exactly explain why, though it's not difficult to guess: It's what they were taught, what was implied, it's what their own parents passed on to them, as did their church, their culture, society as it was during their upbringing, and it was largely a narrow and repressed and sexually unaware period that finally, mercifully seems to be gasping its last.
And hence the obvious conclusion: It's only because the "Greatest Generation" is finally dying off that something like gay...
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Morford’s anus is just itching due to the newest release of the Doc Johnson ‘marital aids’ catalog for June.
Give it up Morford! Your boyfriend left you on the alter and he isn’t coming back... Let him go...
Maybe the young in SF or LA, but the “young” in my neck of the woods have all told me their against gay marriage.
Blacks and Hispanics are also against gay marriage.
In any event, all this is going to do is lead to a SCOTUS showdown on “full faith and credit.” And once SCOTUS says “nope, sorry, not gonna happen,” they’ll wish they hadn’t pushed the issue.
His analysis is accurate - the strategy to normalize sodomy via mass media has been successful (haw haw - those zany, whackey queers on tha tee vee!). That, coupled with a refusal for many (NEA and far, far too many churches) to teach or emphasize ideas of absolute right vs. absolute wrong, have morally neutered large segements of our culture.
Markie...I’m 43. Try again.
No, it’s itching because of...well, one of his recent partners, anyway. It’s so hard to keep track.
Our “notions” of God aren’t shakey Morford.
LOL, “Mister Fister”.
“it was largely a narrow and repressed and sexually unaware period “
Yes, from the dawn of man to the Stonewall Rebellion. An unaware period. But now we have nincompoops like Morford, who cannot write his way out of a wet paper bag, to “enlighten” us. Spare me.
I’m 39 and my WIFE is 36...we’re 100% AGAINST homo “marriage”
Don’t worry. They’ll soon teach those silly little brown people the correct way to think. Young, well-educated whites are vastly superior to anyone else, don’t you know.
And hence the obvious response to Morford's wishful thinking: You think a preponderance of Californians will repudiate the California Marriage Amendment? Don't place any really large bets, Clark.
Let’s make that “Don’t place any really large bets, Mark.”
How dare the Greatest Generation not die quickly so that this creep can get his heart’s desire. Anyone know if there is a comments section to this article? I’d like to leave one.
Har har! He mocks the notion of priestly molesters while ignoring the fact that it wasn't that they were priests that attracted them to Boys, it was that they were homos. He doesn't make the connection that almost without fail these "priests" (males) forced themselves onto boys (males) - the virtual definition of a homosexual rapist.
I would think that the best sociological reason against the practice of homosexuality is the fact that a human’s ovaries are not to be found anywhere in the alimentary tract.
Until you can prove to me that being gay is biological and not a choice, you have no right to change an entire institution to suit your flavor of the month.
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