February 11, 2010
How’s That?
I’ve got to wonder where they find these respondents.
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“Homosexuals” has the word “sex” in it. Josh, sex is bad. Unless you’re married, then it’s tolerable (as long as birth control isn’t involved).
My comment just reminded me of something my friend said about the anti-abortion crowd. He said to me that he thought the entire abortion debate was about punishing people (specifically young women) for having sex. Which explains why the focus is on outlawing abortion and not finding ways to reduce unwanted pregnancy.
I think it’s the same when you get into the gay marriage/don’t ask don’t tell debate. Some Americans want to punish people for having sex they don’t understand.
Lack of understanding is the key. I’ve spent my fair share of time amongst the anti-gay/abortion crowds and I’m not sure even they understand their reasoning. For most of these people, it’s a passive choice, which is also why it’s ultimately futile to oppose something like gay marriage. They vote against it once every four years because they’re supposed to, and never bother to consider the bigger picture in the meantime.
You’re point on abortion is spot on and one that, ultimately, exposes elements of the pro-life crowd as something much darker than their perceived intentions. You would be surprised how a room goes quiet when you ask these folks how outlawing abortion affects abortion rates.
Protestants love birth control.
Sounds right to me, Josh. My own upbringing in the rural, gawd-fearin’ south supports the notion that these are unconsidered positions. Careful choice of terminology is also the foundation of push-polling: playing on people’s often subconscious prejudices to support a position, which unfortunately causes those people to entrench the prejudice by thinking they are in a larger consensus than they are.
There is a basis in social psychology that shows this is actually a good thing. The more specific the question about a person’s attitude, the more accurately the answer reflects the person’s actual behaviour towards it. So that would indicate that even though a lot of people are “against” homosexuals serving openly in the military, when it gets down to actual people they would probably support it.
Interesting. I’m against having sex with strangers as a bloc, but I would probably favor having sex with specific strangers.
As long as the sex is stranger.
I would love to see the response had they asked for “HETEROSEXUALS” serving. Yeah?
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