Gallup: America Is More Socially Liberal Than Its Ever Been
By Eric Levitz
May 11, 2017
5:58 pm
The president of the United States has called for the abolition of legal abortion. His second-in-command opposes sex-same marriage, stem-cell research and any limitation on the right of employers to fire people for being gay. And in state houses all across America, the people’s elected representatives are pushing new restrictions on reproductive rights.
It would be easy to read these developments as testaments to the resilience of American puritanism — but, in truth, they’re testaments to the undemocratic nature of American democracy.
On Thursday, Gallup released a new poll on our nation’s moral sentiments. It reveals that Americans have never been as socially liberal in their attitudes as they are today: On the 19 “moral” issues in Gallup’s survey, Americans are now more left-wing than they’ve ever been on 10 — and have moved significantly in the conservative direction on none.
To be sure, the pro-human-cloning movement still has its work cut out for it. And all of this years’ new highs are just one or two points above records set in 2015 and 2014 — which is to say, we aren’t seeing a significant acceleration in America’s descent into Satanism, just continuous movement in that direction.
Still, the new records offer an opportunity to reflect on the significant changes in America’s moral sensibilities since the turn of the century. Since the early 2000s, the public’s views on sex and marriage have changed drastically, as the percentage of Americans who say gay relations, conceiving a child outside of wedlock, extramarital sex, and divorce are morally acceptable have all increased by double digits.
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