The Backlash
About thirteen hours ago I wrote:
This do-what-you-want-but-don’t-tell-me-about-it majority of Americans has become increasingly nervous with the number of gay-themed shows on TV, Canada’s legalization of gay marriage, the recent Supreme Court decision making gay sex a part of the constitution and even the gay Episcopalian Bishop story. Their unease is showing up as a backlash against gays in the polls.
Now there’s yet another poll showing the backlash:
The poll also found, however, that public acceptance of same-sex civil unions is falling. Fewer than four in 10 — 37 percent — of all Americans say they would support a law allowing gay men and lesbians to form civil unions that would provide some of the rights and legal protections of marriage.That is a precipitous, 12-point drop in support found in a Gallup Organization survey that posed the question in identical terms in May, before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law against sodomy and Justice Antonin Scalia argued in his dissent that the court was on a slippery slope toward legalizing gay marriage.
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The survey found that 60 percent of all Americans opposed last week’s decision by the Episcopal Church’s general convention to give its bishops the option of allowing the blessing of same-sex relationships in their dioceses. Thirty-three percent favored the decision, and 7 percent were unsure. Nearly two in three respondents who attended church at least a few times a year said they would object if leaders of their own faith took similar action.
Watch for the upcoming Massachussetts Supreme Court decision to trigger an even bigger backlash, as I predicted.
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