Americans are becoming less worried about gays, abortions, and embryonic stem cell research.

Interesting Gallup Poll results:



To put this in context, as compared to gay sex, more Americans have moral qualms about cloning animals (36% find it morally acceptable as compared to 47% who find gay sex morally acceptable and 59% find cloning animals morally unacceptable as compared to 49% who feel the same way about gay sex).

Likewise, as compared to abortions, more Americans have moral qualms about suicide (16% find it morally acceptable as compared to 40% who find abortion morally acceptable and 78% find suicide morally unacceptable as compared to 51% who feel the same way about abortion). Among the least morally acceptable practices in America: married people having extra-marital affairs, which only 6% find morally acceptable and 91% find morally unacceptable.

Most interestingly, Americans by a vast majority have no moral qualms about embryonic stem cell research:



Link to the whole study: http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=27757&pg=1

research on the side...

burn at them at stake?

Not that they'll not try and mount them again and again.

I think, I may be wrong, that the religious right is in it's death throes.

when the pious start to chisel. I saw the end of the Atkins fad when I found a box of "Atkins approved!" Lo-Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies on the shelf at a health food store.

Two or so years ago, there was an article in the local paper about Christian porn sites. Yes, you read it right, Christian porn! Google it if you don't believe me.

The problem with piety is that unless it is genuine, it is impossible to sustain. The more you deny yourself something, whether it's a sandwich with real bread or looking at nekkid women, the more you obsess on it and the sooner you will crack and look for a way to chisel while still considering yourself among the pious.

I just shudder to think what the next one will be.

The RRRepublican base has yet to realize that' it's been had. They are useful idiots--fundraising machines.

i`m afraid of everything!...

very interesting , 91% thinks screwing someone outside of the marriage is wrong.

holds another press conference attacking gay marriage, the numbers will suddenly go the other way.

...like someone who is killing themself gives a shit what you think.

We need to find one quick, or the fundies will run out of hate!

as they worry more about the economy, the ecology, and education.

Make people so worried about their and their children's survival - and they'll stop giving a rip about everyone else.