Kalley Yanta of the Minnesota Marriage Minute explains some facts that you rarely see mentioned in the media:
"According to the American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau there were fewer same-sex households in 2010 than were mentioned in the 2000 census. The data on whether Americans are becoming more supportive of gay marriage suggests that they are not. [...] A survey by public opinion strategies for the Alliance Defense Fund found that 62% of Americans believe that marriage should be defined only as the union of one man and one woman."
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NOMers will soon be like those Japanese soldiers after WWII that had no idea that the war was over so they kept fighting like ShÅichi Yokoi
Yes Gzeus, we know. "Same sex marriage" is "inevitable" and its supporters are on the "right side of history", though I believe the same things were once said of communism and it's supporters.
>its supporters
And don't forget abortion. I recall that shortly after Roe vs. Wade the common belief of those on the left was that everyone in general will be in favor of abortion rights by the year 2000. Here it is - the year 2012, and abortion is STILL a hot button topic. Can it be that some values simply can't be outdated, especially when they are based on biological laws that have been in effect for hundreds of millions of years?
The "population bomb" is another outdated myth, and the effects of that gross miscalculation in judgement are beginning to show in Europe, and much of Asia.
I'm always impressed by the consistent high quality of these vids. Kudos to MN for Marriage!
First,
I like that this "Marriage Minute" clocks in at two minutes, fifty seven seconds.
Second,
I come from a Latter-Day Saint background and I'm struck by how the feel and quality of the reasoning in this video parallels the feel and the quality of reasoning on our FAIR and FARMS websites.
It's possible to be pro-choice and anti-abortion. Personally I would not have one (if I were female), and I would not encourage anyone to get one. BUT I also know its not my business what someone else does. And I certainly would not spend time, energy and money to make people live the way I think is correct.
To say whether or not more americans are turning out in favor of SSM shouldn't you have compared a poll asking the exact same question from different years not compare polls asking different questions from the same year.
After all the question was whether or not the opinion is changing. To address questions of change one needs to look over a period of time. I agree that surveys are very biased by the nature of the question asked but quite often surveys ask the same question year after year after year. To answer this question should one not find a survey that asks the same question multiple years and look at the trend over time?
Like abortion, marriage is a social issue, not a personal one. The laws governing either of them have far reaching and profound effects on our culture and civilization.
I'd bet that the 62% figure is lower than reality.
Political correctness is the motto of the Thought Police. When polled, say what you think is the safest thing to say, and in this instance, with all of the press that homosexual lobby gets, everyone knows what's safest to say....
Global warming? Yes.
Pro-choice? Yes.
Obama? Yes.
Zimmerman guilty? Yes.
Thank God for the voting booth, the only poll that counts.
GZeus
Watch this on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwI
"By 1900 Philadelphia will be a suburb of New York",they said in the 1850s.
In 1871 Joseph Chamberlain said the end of the British monarchy in his generation was inevitable.
History is littered with inevitabilities that never happened.One day SSM will seem a momentary insanity.
I can make the data support whatever I want. Do some research people.
Man, these ads in MN are excellent.
Lookin' *good* for a massive defeat of the entire marriage corruption movement war plan in 2012!
It's a shame these ads aren't more honest. This one, for instance, based its claim on the number of same sex couples on a comparison of revised 2010 figures with unrevised 2000 figures. When you use the updated numbers for each year, you see an 80% increase. But the video doesn't tell you that.
Gee, tam, I am shocked. Here's what you do. You get an ad on TV right away that clears this crucial matter up.
I am sure it will shift the momentum.
Rick, your lighthearted attitude toward dishonesty in an ad you have praised is both troubling and uncharacteristic of you. Is everything okay?
tam,
I'm pretty sure Rick is just a big fan of 'the Wizard of Oz' and he just assumes that the marriage corruption movement will be running another one of its revisions of this much loved classic.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the green curtain.'