Acceptance of Gays Rises Among New Generation

[Quetzal]

Acceptance of Gays Rises Among New Generation

Gays and lesbians have experienced a dramatic rise in acceptance over the last two decades, according to a Los Angeles Times poll.

Almost seven in 10 Americans know someone who is gay or lesbian and say they would not be troubled if their elementary school-age child had a homosexual teacher. Six in 10 say they are sympathetic to the gay community, displaying an increasing inclination to view same-sex issues through a prism of societal accommodation rather than moral condemnation.

On questions ranging from job discrimination to role models to whether homosexuality is morally wrong, responses indicate that as gays and lesbians have become more open, heterosexuals in return have become more open toward them. A key exception is same-sex marriage — supported by only one in four.

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Acceptance of Gays Rises Among New Generation

[Quetzal]

1. From the article

How awful.

Rauch, an engineer, said he has warned his three children that if they "turned homosexual," he would disinherit them — "because if my child was to choose that lifestyle, basically my bloodline would end with that child and not continue on. Why give him an inheritance that he is just going to have to give to the state someday?"

Meanwhile, some interesting poll numbers on Catholics

In the 18-to-29 age group, 54% said they favored adoption by same-sex couples, while 70% of those over 65 opposed it. Sixty-five percent of liberals and 56% of Catholics said they favored same-sex adoptions. But 73% of conservatives and 63% of non-Catholic Christians opposed such adoptions.

[WildClarySage]

2. Only 65% of liberals favor

adoption by same sex families? That hardly seems like it could be right.

[Prodemsouth]

4. No I would say its is about right. Some people think that the child will

be persecuted in school or elsewhere by other children for having Gay parents- so they reason for the child's sake married heterosexuals would be the best option.

[NashVegas]

8. No, That's What It's All About

Marriage, that is. You may not like that man's words, but it's a good argument to on those against gay marriage on religious grounds. We didn't get the institution because a god willed it, but because asset-holders wanted to be certain the heirs they were passing those onto actually were their heirs (pre-paternity test era).

Without the necessity of keeping a woman 'chaste' to determine heirs' legitimacy, marriage loses its Darwinian imperative.

[BattyDem]

14. Hmmmm ...

"because if my child was to choose that lifestyle, basically my bloodline would end with that child and not continue on."

So ... when did homosexuals become sterile? :eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Dig this quote:

Keep in mind that radical fundamentalist Christians were the driving force behind the era of lynching (1880-1935), the recent "patriotic militias", and violence at gynecological clinics (including several murders).

"And they are practically committing anarchy with what they are doing. It is just not peaceful, these people going and blatantly getting married, all this nonsense (...)"

If getting married is "anarchy", that either we need more anarchy, or someone has been taking the wrong meds.

--bkl
Hey, baby, let's go to the chapel and commit some anarchy!

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[JoFerret]

6. Meaning what?

Hurt kids by, say, keeping them warehoused and unwanted when there are loving people ready to adopt them but prevented by prejudice and discrimination??

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[Skittles]

10. the catholic priest way, as you put it, is PEDOPHILIA

we are discussing HOMOSEXUALITY. In case you don't understand, THEY ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS.

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[Skittles]

12. it is in OUR MINDS

HERE IN THE DU

[Arugula Latte]

13. Give me a break

The vast majority of pedophiles are heterosexual.

[slinkerwink]

15. oh come on----there's a big difference between two gay men

having CONSENSUAL sex, and a PEDOPHILE preying on kids. By the way, most PEDOPHILES are HETEROSEXUAL....

Would you accuse a gay man with his family of being a pedophile just because he's raising his family with his gay partner?

[Democat]

16. Some people understand it, but they like to spread the propaganda

Talking points.

[EdGy]

7. I know young die-hard Republicans whose ONLY disagreement with Shrub

is on this issue.

There really is a shift taking place in this country.