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Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues - GALLUP

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Very interesting.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/183413/a...RELATIONS&utm_medium=topic&utm_campaign=tiles
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level.
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Key trends in Americans' views of the moral acceptability of certain issues and behaviors include the following:
  • The substantial increase in Americans' views that gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable coincide with a record-high level of support for same-sex marriage and views that being gay or lesbian is something a person is born with, rather than due to one's upbringing or environment.
  • The public is now more accepting of sexual relations outside of marriage in general than at any point in the history of tracking these measures, including a 16-percentage-point increase in those saying that having a baby outside of marriage is morally acceptable, and a 15-point increase in the acceptability of sex between an unmarried man and woman. Clear majorities of Americans now say both are acceptable.
  • Acceptance of divorce and human embryo medical research are also up 12 points each since 2001 and 2002, respectively.
  • Polygamy and cloning humans have also seen significant upshifts in moral acceptability -- but even with these increases, the public largely perceives them as morally wrong, with only 16% and 15% of Americans, respectively, considering them morally acceptable.
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All things considered, this is not bad news.
 
It looks like a general 'lightening-up' of America, which is fine by me.

Great to see the acceptance of the death-penalty continuing to decline.

I still think the whole gay marriage & transgender thing is going a bit faster than I can keep-up - it looks like I'll be on the wrong side of history with that one.

Looking good otherwise, though.
 
This must be making the far right go nuts.
 
It looks like a general 'lightening-up' of America, which is fine by me.

Great to see the acceptance of the death-penalty continuing to decline.

I still think the whole gay marriage & transgender thing is going a bit faster than I can keep-up - it looks like I'll be on the wrong side of history with that one.

Looking good otherwise, though.


On the bolded, it's ok, you don't have to stay there bud. ;)
 
I just post this because I see it out in the real world. The average person simply isn't purely socially conservative anymore unless you drive out into rural areas. Even in suburbia where social conservatism is still strong there's a great irony in that while suburbia social conservatism is still borderline radical, those same people are social liberals in many ways as evidenced in the data, which represents the great duality and deep contradiction of America. We are socially liberal yet want to live in a socially conservative setting at the same time. It's the very reason people move into the suburbs. For social conservatism. Then you have the irony of those very same people being social liberals. Very odd duality at work there indeed.
 
Very interesting.

Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level.
y0yc1xm7ceukouxi34l22w.png

Key trends in Americans' views of the moral acceptability of certain issues and behaviors include the following:
  • The substantial increase in Americans' views that gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable coincide with a record-high level of support for same-sex marriage and views that being gay or lesbian is something a person is born with, rather than due to one's upbringing or environment.
  • The public is now more accepting of sexual relations outside of marriage in general than at any point in the history of tracking these measures, including a 16-percentage-point increase in those saying that having a baby outside of marriage is morally acceptable, and a 15-point increase in the acceptability of sex between an unmarried man and woman. Clear majorities of Americans now say both are acceptable.
  • Acceptance of divorce and human embryo medical research are also up 12 points each since 2001 and 2002, respectively.
  • Polygamy and cloning humans have also seen significant upshifts in moral acceptability -- but even with these increases, the public largely perceives them as morally wrong, with only 16% and 15% of Americans, respectively, considering them morally acceptable.
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Oh cripes! Wait till Paleocon sees this.... :eek:
 
Oh cripes! Wait till Paleocon sees this.... :eek:

Nice going, before it is all said and done we'll end up in a Sodom and Gomorrah threat.
 
The one that surprises me a bit is divorce - only 20% see it as morally wrong. I'd have figured more like 50-50 split. Also, pretty shocked a majority think doctor assisted suicide is morally OK.
 
The one that surprises me a bit is divorce - only 20% see it as morally wrong. I'd have figured more like 50-50 split. Also, pretty shocked a majority think doctor assisted suicide is morally OK.

Doesn't surprise me. My generation is pretty liberal.
 
Doesn't surprise me. My generation is pretty liberal.

that is because they haven't grown up yet to see the consequences of some of these actions.
 
that is because they haven't grown up yet to see the consequences of some of these actions.

Are you saying that yer a better person than young liberals on social issues as an older conservative judge of them?

Don't worry ludin--young liberals also don't vote--so yer GOP will continue to ruin DC until at least 2022 .
 
In 2001, only 53% thought sex between an unmarried man and a woman was moral? Wow. This shifts shows America is far less about what other people are doing with their lives and, in this case, shows a marked decline in hypocrisy. Unless anyone here thinks 47% of Americans never had sex before marriage as of 2001?
 
Are you saying that yer a better person than young liberals on social issues as an older conservative judge of them?

Don't worry ludin--young liberals also don't vote--so yer GOP will continue to ruin DC until at least 2022 .

as the saying goes.

If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.
 
It doesn't surprise me. I think many are adopting a "live and let live" attitude so long as the views of others aren't forced upon us as something to be personally morally accepted.
 
as the saying goes.

If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.

I voted for McGovern, Ford, Reagan, then all DEMs.
The 1983 tax cuts and Reagan's turn to the Christian Right after his near assassination death changed me forever for one.
So just the opposite of you .
 
This must be making the far right go nuts.

Not really, given the deterioration of the country that liberals moan about the conservative can just point at these statistics and say "told ya so."

This is on par with progressives cheering the increasing progressive lean of the American public school system over the last 40 years while also decrying the piss poor performance of American schools.
 
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Now if only our elected leaders saw it this way and stopped making laws preventing private citizens from doing as they please.
 
Not really, given the deterioration of the country that liberals moan about the conservative can just point at these statistics and say "told ya so."

pretty much.
 
I voted for McGovern, Ford, Reagan, then all DEMs.
The 1983 tax cuts and Reagan's turn to the Christian Right after his near assassination death changed me forever for one.
So just the opposite of you .

like I said as the saying goes.
 
like I said as the saying goes.

I see the two studies related to the Presidents while they were in high school.
As a side note, it was my observation that my chemistry and physics students were more conservative than the average student.

So during the 1990's, they had little good to say about Clinton's personal life.
Since I retired in 2009, I saw them change as a backlash to the intrusion of conservatism into people's private lives.

It should be interesting to see how the young are measured in let's say 2020 a few years after Obama .
 
Not really, given the deterioration of the country that liberals moan about the conservative can just point at these statistics and say "told ya so."

This is on par with progressives cheering the increasing progressive lean of the American public school system over the last 40 years while also decrying the piss poor performance of American schools.

So how about j, he shifting left on morals, or staying a steadfast Puritan?
 
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