Here is some reassuring news from, well, the news:
"Rhetoric aside, a recent Gallup Poll (search) suggests that for the first time since the 1980s, support for the gay lifestyle including the much-discussed idea of same-sex marriages has begun slipping.
Pollsters acknowledge that recent events have played a role in what might be a "gay backlash."
"There really has been a shift in the population," said Frank Newport, executive editor of the Gallup Poll, which conducted two surveys last month following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in June to overturn a Texas law that criminalized gay sex.
In both polls, support for homosexuals dropped markedly from the same survey conducted in May. Across nearly every demographic group including age, religion, income, race and region of the country Gallup reported a "dramatic reversal" in what had been increasing tolerance over the last few decades."
Maybe there is hope . . .
"Rhetoric aside, a recent Gallup Poll (search) suggests that for the first time since the 1980s, support for the gay lifestyle including the much-discussed idea of same-sex marriages has begun slipping.
Pollsters acknowledge that recent events have played a role in what might be a "gay backlash."
"There really has been a shift in the population," said Frank Newport, executive editor of the Gallup Poll, which conducted two surveys last month following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in June to overturn a Texas law that criminalized gay sex.
In both polls, support for homosexuals dropped markedly from the same survey conducted in May. Across nearly every demographic group including age, religion, income, race and region of the country Gallup reported a "dramatic reversal" in what had been increasing tolerance over the last few decades."
Maybe there is hope . . .