Author Topic: Over 50% support ban on gay marriage (Read 958 times)

Hortlund · « **on:** August 18, 2003, 04:48:31 PM »

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The poll, conducted for the AP by ICR-International Communications Research of Media, Pa., found 52 percent favor a law banning gay marriages, while 41 percent oppose it.

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takeda · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2003, 04:53:20 PM »

Up theirs!

Go find the results of the poll, and the title should read:
"Old People, Rednecks, Illiterates and Yank-Wannabe Swedes are Homophobes, or Like We didn't Know Already"

Animal · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:03:48 PM »

Was there a "I prefer not to meddle in other people's private affairs" option to that poll?

capt. apathy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:07:40 PM »

that'd be included in the 41%

Hortlund · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:08:45 PM »

Reading poll results can be complicated I suppose...

Otto · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:13:54 PM »

What is a 'gay' marriage ?

StSanta · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:18:52 PM »

Hortlund, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. The way the poll is put up has a lot to say about the results.

Example:

"What do you think should happen to Swedes if they're seen anywhere in the world?"

A: Shoot them on sight
B: Slowly strangle them
or
C: Leave them alone. I hate those idiots, but they're jus stupid mostly harmful semi-communists

From this poll I'll conclude that 100% of those who answered it has something against Swedes.

Seriously though, marriage is a religious ritual. If it's the same rights they want they can get 'um through secular partnerships, at least here. Aside from that; abide by the religious tenets or get out; you adapt to organized religion, not the other way around. This is not a 'gay right' issue, it's simply religious doctrine and any religion has to be free to et up its own doctrine, no matter if it's hateful or full of love.

Hortlund · « **Reply #7 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:21:40 PM »

Yes, since the result of the poll isnt really PC, there must be something wrong with the poll...

StSanta · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2003, 05:43:41 PM »

Heh, read the more serious part of my post Hortlund. You may even find we're agreeing on something, although for different reasons

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With regards to polls, I want to see how they were written before I decide whether to go by them, that's all.

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** August 18, 2003, 06:28:00 PM »

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More than half of Americans

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The poll of 1,028 adults from every state but Alaska and Hawaii was conducted from Aug. 8-12...

This stinks of a "covenience poll" and IIRC the last statistics class I attended, one cannot apply the statistic to the population using a convenience poll.

SOB · « **Reply #10 on:** August 18, 2003, 06:40:31 PM »

For the law part of it, it's got nothing to do with religion, St. Santa. You can be married by a judge, and any marriage requires a marriage certificate to make it legal. Gays are interested in having the same benefits extended to them for making a long-term committment to another consenting adult, as any other hetero couple would recieve.

SOB

Sandman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 18, 2003, 06:45:50 PM »

Oddly enough, it seems that the religious zealots don't want "those nasty butt pirates" to have civil unions either because it somehow diminishes the sanctity of marriage.

Which came first anyway? Christianity or committed relationships?

majic · « **Reply #12 on:** August 18, 2003, 08:14:12 PM »

You know, I'm generally conservative, but I can't see a damn thing wrong with extending the same rights and/or benefits to them as a "normal" marriage. If it offends so much, call it something else. Wait, nevermind, that smacks of seperate but equal. It's their lives, let them do what they want.

Charon · « **Reply #13 on:** August 18, 2003, 09:18:12 PM »

What percent of Germans from the late 1930s to 1945 supported resettlement of the Jews to the "East?"

What percent of southern whites in the 1950s supported civil rights, or today support interracial marriages?

How many white South Africans supported apartheid?

How many townspeople of Salem supported the witch trials?

I guess the majority is always right though.

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Oddly enough, it seems that the religious zealots don't want "those nasty butt pirates" to have civil unions either because it somehow diminishes the sanctity of marriage.

It's funny, I guess with a 50 percent or so divorce rate, as i recall, they would be better off focusing on the problems with heterosexual unions.

Homosexuals are the last relatively mainstream group its OK to hate. A kid gets beaten to death and some "man of god" is marching at his funeral chanting in front of the grieving family about how he's burning in hell. People can use the word studmuffingot on this BBS, yet their accounts would be shut in a second if they were calling blacks or Jews by some all too common names.

Charon

rc51 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 19, 2003, 02:13:22 AM »

May the dam peter puffers rot in HELL:D