The Mnota Senate recently voted to legalize same-sex marriage as Amerins' views of gay cizens ntue to shift. In light of the events, Jonathan Rch mak the nservative se for gay marriage orr to monstrate that is part and parcel of a re-mment to fay valu, not a flight om them.
Contents:
- CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- THE NSERVATIVE SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
* conservative views gay marriage *
More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). In the space of two days this week voters North Carola approved a nstutnal amendment effectively banng same-sex marriage and US Print Barack Obama ma clear his view that gay and lbian upl should have the chance to wed. We Southerners have held the le for tradn and moral tth about marriage every time the issue has been put on the ballot how cisive the North Carola vote was, and given that gay marriage proponents have lost every state, even culturally liberal California, is temptg to thk we n stand athwart history yellg, "Stop!
In my newsroom experience, is taken as given that any opposn to gay marriage n only e om rank would no more take a fenr of tradnal marriage serly than you would take a segregatnist serly - or so the thkg go.
THE NSERVATIVE SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Tryg to expla philosophilly why homosexualy is not the same thg as race draws blank is simply not somethg to be reasoned about, pecially not wh my generatn of journalists: too young to have seen the black civil rights movement, and who are not about to miss out on their own versn. Though I firmly believe there is only a superficial nnectn between gay marriage and ter-racial marriage, the legacy of the civil rights movement the South is precisely why I thk marriage tradnalists are gog to lose the long n. This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,.
Gay marriage opponents like to tell themselv that people get more nservative as they age - te, general, but unlikely this long as the tradnalist posn on same-sex marriage, almost universally held only 25 years ago, is treated as irratnal hatred and nothg but by the media, bs, and social el, there will be powerful social and psychologil prsure to shun . Amerin bs culture is creasgly pro-gay. Prejudice - eher the bad sense of mdls bigotry, or the good, Burkean sense - is the only thg keepg gay marriage at will not last, pecially as the social, legal, and mercial price for holdg fast to tradn creas, as certaly will, now that same-sex marriage mands the high ground the US social and cultural hierarchy.
Gay marriage plet the stutnalisatn of the sexual revolutn, agast which the forc of social nservatism and relig tradn have been pleasg as ballot box victori are, I see no reason for the long feat to reverse, at least not my lifetime. Support for gay marriage at 70% for first time.
CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CURRICULUM CLUDG GAY RIGHTS AFTER SPAT WH ERNOR
A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn.
Hodg cisn 2015, support for gay marriage had reached 60%. For the First Time, a Small Majory of Republins Support Gay Marriage. This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. Today, 73% of Millennials say gays and lbians should be allowed to marry legally, while jt 24% say they should not. Gen Xers, the next youngt hort, also support gay marriage, though by a narrower marg (59% favor, 39% oppose).
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Among olr horts, Boomers (ag 51 to 69) are currently divid (45% favor, 48% oppose), while Silents (ag 70-87) are the only generatn which signifintly more oppose (53%) than favor (39%) gay marriage. In 2005, 53% of Silent Democrats opposed gay marriage, while jt 31% favored . Today, 54% support gay marriage and 34% are opposed.
Support for gay marriage among Silent Republins and Republin leaners also has creased over the past (by 14 pots). However, Silent Republins oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry legally by three-to-one (72% to 24%).