The NY Times Obsession With ‘Gay Marriage’
From the relentless gay militants at the New York Times:
Support for Gay Marriage Outweighs Opposition in Polls By NATE SILVER
May 9, 2012
President Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage undoubtedly entails some political risk, but recent polls suggest that public opinion is increasingly on his side.
According to surveys included in the PollingReport.com database, an average of 50 percent of American adults support same-sex marriage rights while 45 percent oppose it, based on an average of nine surveys conducted in the past year.
This is a reversal from earlier periods: support for same-sex marriage has been increasing, and opposition to it has been decreasing, at a relatively steady rate of perhaps two or three percentage points a year since 2004…
Which is why that whenever the issue is on the ballot it has lost, in 32 out of 32 referendums. And, never mind that while gay marriage was voted down in California in 2008 by an 8% margin, it was just voted down In North Carolina by a 22% margin. Which would seem to indicate movement in the other direction.
But even if these claims are true and polls show more people favor gay marriage now than they used to, so what? We do not make our policy based on polls. We make them on elections. Or, at least, we used to.
And, after all, polls show more people now are anti-abortion than pro abortion. So does The Times think we should overturn Roe v. Wade? In fact, the polls say most people overwhelmingly oppose Obama-Care and all of Obama’s policies.
Besides, as we have suggested before, polls can be misleading since people do lie to pollsters. In fact, it is not at all farfetched to believe that more and more people are lying to pollsters today because they are afraid of being seen as bigoted.
In fact, some might even fear being prosecuted for a thought crime given the daily onslaught of propaganda that we get every day from the news media and the rest of the Democrat Party.
Still, even if polls have sometimes overstated support for same-sex marriage, and if some of the Americans who support same-sex marriage are less likely to turn out to vote than those who oppose it, the issue now seems to have a bit of wiggle room, with supporters slightly outnumbering opponents in recent national surveys…
In other words, even this pollster admits that polls overstate the support for gay marriage.
But even if it is true that polls show that more people favor gay marriage now than they used to, so what? We do not make our policy based on polls. We make them on elections. Or, at least, we used to.
But this is the kind of article you get when your newspaper stops reporting the news and takes up militant advocacy for a cause.
In fact, here are the top political news stories of the day as listed by the RSS feeds from today’s New York Times:
1. News Analysis: Obama’s Watershed Move on Gay Marriage — Same-sex marriage is still a controversial issue, but one on which views are changing rapidly, polls show, a point that President Obama clearly came to recognize.
2. Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal — By publicly endorsing same-sex marriage in a television interview, the president took a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
3. Romney Reaffirms Opposition to Marriage, or Unions, for Gay Couples — The question of precisely what legal status and protections should be granted to gay couples is emerging as an issue of the sharpest possible contrast between the two presidential candidates.
5. Civil Union Bill May Be Revived in Colorado — A call for a special legislative session by Gov. John W. Hickenlooper could revive a bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado.
And there’s still more:
22. The Caucus: Romney Draws Contrast, but Does Not Hammer Obama on Gay Marriage — Mitt Romney responded to President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage by drawing a contrast with his own oft-repeated view that "marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman."
23. The Caucus: What Romney Has Said About Same-Sex Marriage — In endorsing same-sex marriage, President Obama has offered voters the sharpest possible contrast with Mitt Romney on a social issue that polls show still evenly divides the country
24. FiveThirtyEight: Support for Gay Marriage Outweighs Opposition in Polls — President Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage undoubtedly entails some political risk, but recent polls suggest that public opinion is increasingly on his side.
That list is just from today. But it is by no means unusual.
In fact, a search of the New York Times website for the phrase "gay marriage" reveals they have published 9 stories on "gay marriage" in in past 24 hours. 53 in the past 7 days. 67 in the past 30 days. 123 in the last 90 days. 420 in the last 12 months. And in the 12 years since the term ‘gay’ has been allowed to appear in the paper, there have been 2,905 articles containing the phrase "gay marriage."
Apparently, the New York Times has gone from being the ‘Old Gray Lady’ to being the ‘Old Gay Lady.’ And the news or even the fact be damned. |
