Posted on 10/27/2020 3:05:17 PM PDT by Ennis85
A poll conducted earlier this year says that a majority of Republicans are opposed to same-sex “marriage” and that support for matrimony defined as between one man and one woman is higher amongst those who identify as “conservative” within the party.
The “2019 American Values Atlas” survey, published in April by the Washington D.C. based Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), which was mainly funded by pro-LGBTQ foundations.
In regards to marriage, the survey asked participants: “do you strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose, allowing gay and lesbian couples to legally marry?”
The poll found that overall, only 47 percent of Republicans voiced support for same-sex “marriage.”
When it came to those who identified as conservative Republicans, only 40 percent said they approve of same-sex “marriage.”
When it comes to Democrats, the survey found that the majority, 70 percent, reported being in favor of same-sex “marriage.”
Amongst Independents, a total of 66 percent reported support for same-sex “marriage.”
The PRRI lists itself as a “nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to conducting independent research at the intersection of religion, culture, and public policy.”
Their survey sampled a total of 53,474 people via “bilingual telephone interviews” from all 50 states throughout 2019.
Listed as funders for the “2019 American Values Atlas” survey are various foundations tied to the LGBTQ community, those being the Gill Foundation, the Arcus Foundation, the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, and Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock.
The foundations individual websites show them all to be advocates for LGBTQ rights, which includes support for same-sex “marriage.”
The survey asked a variety of questions relating to LGBTQ issues, and overall states that 72 percent of Americans “support LGBT nondiscrimination protections” and that a majority (56 percent) oppose allowing small business owners “to refuse services to gay and lesbian people based on their religious beliefs.”
The survey also says that support for business owners who refuse “gay and lesbian people” service because of their faith, has increased.
“This landmark survey also finds some erosion in opposition to allowing business owners to refuse to serve gay and lesbian people based on their religious beliefs,” said PRRI CEO and Founder Robert P. Jones in a press release about the poll.
The PRRI survey says that a total of 56 percent of Americans “oppose allowing a small business owner in their state to refuse to provide products or services to gay or lesbian people, if doing so violates their religious beliefs.”
Of this amount, 39 percent of Republicans, 70 percent of Democrats, and 57 percent of Independents oppose allowing small business owners “to refuse service to gay and lesbian people based on their religious beliefs.”
The survey says that amongst Americans who view President Donald Trump “favorably,” just under half, 48 percent, support same-sex “marriage.”
For those that view Trump in a negative light, 74 percent say they support same-sex “marriage.”
Broken down by faith, the survey states that those who identified as white evangelical Protestants are the biggest religious group who oppose same-sex “marriage”, with only 41 percent in support.
For those who identified as Catholics, support for same-sex “marriage” is in the majority.
The survey states that 63 percent of “white Catholics” are in favor of same-sex “marriage,” rising to 68 approval amongst “Hispanic Catholics.”
Overall, the survey says that 62 percent of Americans support same-sex “marriage” with 33 percent being opposed, which is the same result as 2018.
In 2017 a Gallop survey found that 64 percent of those who were surveyed said that same-sex “marriage” should be recognized as valid, while 34 percent said that it should not be.
The PRRI survey says that overall, women (65 percent) are more than likely than men (58 percent) to show support for same-sex “marriage.”
Geographically speaking, the survey states that overall, the biggest opposition to same-sex “marriage” comes from those who live in the south, with only 57 percent approving.
In comparison, a total of 67 percent of those who live in the Northeast and 64 percent living in the Midwest approve of same-sex “marriage”
The PRRI survey also stated that opposition to same-sex “marriage” has increased amongst those who live in the West. In 2018, 67 percent of those surveyed approved, compared to 62 percent today.
Compared to a PRRI survey done in 2011 titled “The Millennials, Religion & Gay and Lesbian Issues Survey,” the “2019 American Values Atlas” survey suggests that support for same-sex “marriage” has risen overall amongst both Republicans and Democrats.
The 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision forced all U.S. states to legally recognize same-sex “marriage” in a 5-4 Supreme Court vote.
At the federal political level, while President Donald Trump has a long list of pro-life accomplishments and is very supportive of religious liberty, he supports same-sex “marriage.” In August Trump said that it was his “great honor” to be called the “the most pro-gay president in American history.”
Vice President Mike Pence on the other hand has a track record of being a strong social conservative on marriage issues.
In 2016, then U.S. Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden famously performed his first “wedding” ceremony between men.
Biden says he is a Catholic, but the Catholic Church does not recognise so-called same-sex “marriages.” Rather the Catholic Church teaches that marriage can only be between one man and one woman and that same-sex inclination is “objectively disordered,” while instructing “compassion, and sensitivity” for those with such tendencies.
Biden has in the past said he was opposed to same-sex “marriage” but publicly flip-flopped on the issue in 2008, and has been a staunch supporter of it ever since.
What percentage of gay people are monogamous and married?
Start with 2% of the general population, then less than 50% of that, then an even smaller subset.
And when you factor transvestites and transexuals in there, even smaller.
How did less than 1/2 of one percent come to dictate the norms of this society?
And America fell to this agenda ahead of quite a few other Western nations.
Some out of state lesbians sought a divorce in Texas (before SSM became the judicially decreed law of the land).
They were informed by the state that their marriage was not recognize and that they were free to dissolve their relationship if they wanted.
They found a friendly judge to advance their agenda (getting the state to recognize same sex marriage via a backdoor).
So much for it being about “true love”. They wanted OUT of “marriage”.
To realize how despised the Democrat leadership is, they brought up the issue of impeachment (each on different “reasons”) before impeaching his this January.
And Nanzi Pelosi has again brought up impeachment over Covid now.
So if Trump “did so much wrong that he has to be removed from office”, how is he doing so well that he’s at least neck and neck with the other guy?
The media are partisan hacks pushing Party propaganda.
>>There is also a big difference between being attracted to adult males or females and pedophilia which is an attraction to children which is based on predatory behavior involving a unwilling, frightened recipient.
Explain California Democrats dropping age of consent restrictions between 24 year old adult men sexual propositioning 14 year old boys.
Explain the founder of NOW Kate Millet advocating for sex between adult women and minor girls.
Explain the founders of the gay rights movement being tied to NAMBLA (including Allen Ginsberg) and other man-boy love advocacy groups.
Explain the German Left schools of the 1960s and 1970s pushing for sex in the classrooms and “no limits” between the activities of school children and teachers.
The pollsters could run this into the ground if they wanted to rat hole everything.
The 40 percent who self-identified as "conservative" are not actual conservatives, no matter how much they THINK they are.
Their moral standards are decided based on what the popular culture of society is at the time. If society overwhelmingly approved of and legalized bestiality, those "conservatives" would, too.
Sez who? Dig deeper, there’s probably more than just republicans. Turn on your TV, watch a movie, read magazines... it’s as if 97% of the population is actively engaged in the practices of “The Acronym”
IOW there’s some brainwashing going on.
You could see it happening as the various states passed their marriage amendments over the years. If I recall, there were almost 10 years between CA passing prop 8 and NC passing their amendment. They both passed in the low 50% ranges, but ten years or so apart. No one would have predicted that NC would end up basically in the same place as CA was on ‘gay marriage’. That is the actual shift in votes too, not opinion polling. Pretty darn amazing.
Freegards
It’s all in the language of the polling. That, and the “Bradley effect.”
I can’t disagree with you.
About 10 years ago, I was walking in downtown Minneapolis. During the summer, self-righteous college students with nothing better to do walk around with clipboards. They’re mostly from liberal groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
One day a woman stopped me and and asked me to sign a petition supporting human rights. She said she was with the Human Rights Campaign.
I looked back and her and firmly but politely said “What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home is their own business but that doesn’t mean that I have to like it or agree with it”.
She got this really surprised look on her face and then I resumed walking w/o saying anything else.
This article is from Lifesite I thought this was a Christian news source!!
I do not think there are per say any normal sex behavior. However, making it legal resulted directly in laws against discriminating sexual psychotics dressing themselves as homos from babysitting my children. Just like I should be able to discriminate drug, alcohol or tobacco users, so should I people I deem risky in terms of sexual or emotional addictions
Exactly. Giving an ideological degree in stupid was the biggest flattery of stupid and corrupt behavior there was.
Gay marriage is for banana republics, certifying people with some kind of official medal for self destructiveness is the bane.
Had the poll reflected the language that way... such the like as: “should we give rewards, marriage certificates with poop so as to encourage people to eat poop? “
Would people support that kind of reversion?
Even to the sexually deviant this is satanism incarnate.
Poll designed to label us as intolerant haters - needed a center choice, “Don’t waste much time thinking about it” to give a better result.
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