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To: greenspirit who wrote (112078)	5/27/2009 10:29:33 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

From a recent US News column: "Gallup notes that support for gay marriage has come a long way since it first asked the question in 1996 (when Americans opposed it by 68 percent to 27 percent), but the progress has essentially stalled in the last five years, with support in the low 40s and opposition in the upper 50s. Here's the good news. First, the demographics favor marriage equality, with 18-to-29-year-olds strongly favoring gay marriage (59 percent to 37 percent). All other age groups oppose same-sex marriage, with opposition increasing the older one gets. While it's not surprising that liberals strongly favor it and conservatives strongly oppose, it, moderates favor gay marriage by a slim 50-46 percent margin." Far from "most Americans", it would only take less than a 10% shift to give gay marriage a majority. And the demographic time bomb is coming up for social conservatives with a new generation of voters who don't share their views except as a minority among their peers. Just a matter of time. Your straw man reference to incest and polygamy is just that, an irrelevant exaggeration. A bit more from that column: "One final stat that you can take either as progress or reason to weep: 56 percent of Americans believe that gay relations between consenting adults should be "legal." An astounding 40 percent of Americans think that they should not be legal. If this seems painfully regressive, understand that at least once this decade and a couple of times in the last decade, pluralities of Americans favored the not legal answer."