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You mean 51%
50.01% is a majority.
You mean 51%
50.01% is a majority.
In your eyes I move on full percetage points
That would be kind of hard to do if you had a poll with 101 people in it. :mrgreen:
The whole world should turn gay, that would solve all our problems. Is that all you ever think about?
Even if you debate these numbers, the trend is inescapable. Even if you think the poll may be flawed, you can't deny that it's going to happen.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/08/11/rel11a1a.pdf
The whole world should turn gay, that would solve all our problems. Is that all you ever think about?
That would be kind of hard to do if you had a poll with 101 people in it. :mrgreen:
Want to know what is accounting for the trend? Old people are dying out, and being replaced with younger people.
Hey, I'm old and I'm all for gay marriages! I think one of the reasons that the topic has gained more public support is that more and more gays are coming out of the closet, and society is realizing that *gasp!* gays are people just like them. In fact, they are learning that their favorite cousin, their best friend in high school, their own brother or sister... not to mention some of their favorite celebrities... are gay. The gay and lesbian community has become more open, more familiar, and they aren't the scarey folks people decades back made them to be... especially during the height of the HIV/AIDS revelations.
Also, I think that many people are listening to homosexuals as they talk about how they never made a decision to be gay any more than the rest of us made a decision to be heterosexual. They just were. I believe that, and I think eventually science will be able to prove that sexual orientation is genetic. As society comes to the realization that sexual orientation, like race and gender, is something we are born with, then constitutional protections will be expanded to cover sexual orientation as well.
As it should.
That doesn't explain an 0-31 record. BTW, great Daily Kos graphic my fellow conservative. LOL
CNN is a liberal joke that no one takes seriously. Most Americans do NOT support homosexuals marrying. They say so in the polls EVERY TIME there is a vote.
In Texas only 13% of the eligible voters even bothered to vote when gay gay marriage was on the ballot here. Considering the 87% that did not vote I would say the majority could care less whether or not that gays get married.
True that about Texas. In the last governor's election, Perry won reelecton with only 36% of the vote. LOL.
My wife also uses the internet, and she is a Daily Kos fan. She pointed that out to me. She is a Liberal, BTW. But nice try on the personal attack. It only reinforces your own dishonest image here at DP, in preferring to make personal attacks instead of discussing issues.
BTW, do you disagree with the graph? If so, why? I think that is the issue, not which way you wish to tell people I lean. Care to explain what you think of the graph, or would you prefer to make another personal attack instead?
Or are you just going to run away and hide again, like you did the last time I called you out on your dishonesty in a thread?
Actually, the polling data does explain it quite clearly, since we only now hit crossed the majority line. So in the past when those votes where taken, they would have been further to the left on the graph.
Even if you debate these numbers, the trend is inescapable. Even if you think the poll may be flawed, you can't deny that it's going to happen.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/08/11/rel11a1a.pdf
Frankly I don't care what Glen Beck or anyone thinks about same-sex marriage. All I'm interested in is the law makers and courts acknowledging what equal protection means in the year 2010. I don't care what people think the "tradition" of marriage has always been. Gays have never had as many rights in society as they have gained in the past 50-60 years, so naturally that civil rights movement is going to go forward and demand total equality with heterosexuals.
As for abortion, same deal. The mob can say what it likes against abortion, but women have a constitutional right to privacy and personhood is not an objective qualifier for denying women the right to form answers to their own spiritual questions about what sex, pregnancy, and abortion means to them. So to suggest that populism is beginning to work against abortion is completely irrelevant, just like how the Prop 8 vote to strike down same-sex marriage was irrelevant.
That doesn't explain an 0-31 record. BTW, great Daily Kos graphic my fellow conservative. LOL
The GOP ignores this trend at their own peril.
Unless they move into the 21st century, they will end up being a marginal party. Right now, they have a majority of white voters and elderly voters. Whites will eventually be less than 50% in America and the elderly will eventually all die off.
(Not the Democrats are doing much better, admittedly, but social issues-wise, people are moving away from the GOP at a fast pace)
Same-sex marriage ceremonySame-sex marriage, also referred to as gay marriage, is marriage between two persons of the same sex. The federal government of the United States does not recognize the marriages of same-sex couples and is prohibited from doing so by the Defense of Marriage Act. Nationwide, same-sex marriage is legal in three states as a result of a court ruling and in two others plus a district through a vote in their respective legislatures.
Same-sex marriages are currently granted by five of the 50 states, one federal district, and one Indian tribe:
Defense of Marriage Act is the short title of a federal law of the United States passed on September 21, 1996 as Public Law No. 104-199, 110 Stat. 2419. Its provisions are codified at 1 U.S.C. § 7 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738C. Under the law, also known as DOMA, no state (or other political subdivision within the United States) needs to treat as a marriage a same-sex relationship considered a marriage in another state (DOMA, Section 2); the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman (DOMA, Section 3).
The bill was passed by Congress by a vote of 85–14 in the Senate[1] and a vote of 342–67 in the House of Representatives,[2] and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996.