Posted by Jay Livingston
In yesterday’s post (here) on the anti-gay-marriage vote in North Carolina , I said that the tide of history – short-run history at least – was flowing quickly the other way. Here’s the evidence from the Pew survey.
(Click on the chart for a larger, clearer view.)
The young, who will make up more and more of the electorate, are twice as likely as the old to favor gay marriage. On top of that, acceptance of gay marriage has increased among all age groups. In twenty years, when the youngest of the silent generation, those who still walk this plane, will be close to ninety, most of the population will look upon these anti-gay efforts the way we now look at those old anti-intermarriage laws – as, depending on your point of view, quaint, puzzling, ignorant, or vicious.
The Pew Website has more charts – animated and interactive - on this topic.
1 comment:
I love (read: hate) the hypocrisy when conservatives get the government all up in people's business.
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