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more on in defense of marriage
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:24:19 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:18:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Kottke <jason () kottke org> Dave, The results of this poll jibe with what Hendrik Hertzberg had to say in a Talk of the Town piece in last week's New Yorker: http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040315ta_talk_hertzberg The relevant bit: The Lariat fracas is a small part of a large drama, but it is emblematic of an essential feature of the gay-marriage debate: the most salient divisions are not religious, political, or "cultural" but generational. To talk to younger people is to realize that for most of them, including many young conservatives, such notions as the idea that homosexuality is shameful, that it is a voluntary and/or contagious "life-style choice," or that it is some sort of threat to something or other (public order, the family, civilization, God) are simply bizarre curios from the past, like the belief that masturbation causes blindness. And, for what it's worth, anecdotal impressions are confirmed by opinion research. One particularly striking CBS News/New York Times poll, taken last year, asked respondents if they would favor or oppose "a law that would allow homosexual couples to marry, giving them the same legal rights as other married couples." Among adults under age thirty, 61 per cent said they would favor such a law and 35 per cent said they would oppose it; among sixty-five-year-olds and up, 18 per cent were in favor and 73 per cent opposed. The numbers vary from poll to poll, but the huge age gap is always there. -jason http://www.kottke.org "home of fine hypertext products" Dave Farber said: > > Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:05:53 -0500 > From: "Sean C. Sheridan" <scs () CampusClients com> > Subject: in defense of marriage > To: dave () farber net > > Dave, > > > I thought your readers might want to see these poll results from the > readers of the Penn State Daily Collegian. Of course the results are not > scientific... just indicitive of the opinion of college students at one > Very large state school. >> http://www.collegian.psu.edu/interactive/new_poll/poll_feed.asp?ViewResults=yes
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