Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2012
Christian Polling Company: Americans Split on Whether Homosexuality is Sin
The Christian polling company, LifeWay Research released a poll for May 2012 which was conducted in September 2011 - not sure why it took them 8 months to run the regression models - that concludes that Americans are split on opinion of whether homosexuality is a sin. Their research indicates that 44% believe it is a sin while 43% do not believe it is a sin. Perhaps they wanted to hold off on releasing their research for a time when gay folks would start making abundant progress like we are doing now. I dont really understand why in college, we had to run regressional models for our weekly homework, but it takes 8 months for a Christian polling company to do so. Regardless, below is their presentation work - obviously biased to only highlight "Yes" responses in most of the graphs lol.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Pew Research finds "broad declines" in marriage equality opposition
Just another major poll identifying what all the other polls are saying: Americans support equality for gay and lesbian folks. In this poll, opposition to gay marriage in almost every identifiable group of people is now in the minority, with a few exceptions. These are the polling trends since 2004:
* Total opposition has decreased to 43%
* Black opposition is now in minority at 49%
* 65+ is the only age cohort still in opposition, but only barely at 56%
* My parents cohort is now in the minority at 47% (Mom is 56, Dad is 55)
* Republicans are down 10 points from 78% to 68% - still not a mainstream American party
* Protestants still barely oppose at 56% - where Catholics stood in 2004 before dropping 12 points
* White evangelicals dropped 7 percentage points between 2004-2008, and strong opposition is actually fluctuating - the only group to change directions. Perhaps people are leaving evangelical denominations are joining friendlier groups and this has changed the sample identifying as evangelical.
* Only 5% of non-religious folks strongly oppose same-sex marriage
Lets not forget that 47% of Americans polled support same-sex marriage now. Other major national polls have support at 52-58% - but all polls have one thing in common, opposition is quickly declining while support is rapidly increasing.
* Total opposition has decreased to 43%
* Black opposition is now in minority at 49%
* 65+ is the only age cohort still in opposition, but only barely at 56%
* My parents cohort is now in the minority at 47% (Mom is 56, Dad is 55)
* Republicans are down 10 points from 78% to 68% - still not a mainstream American party
* Protestants still barely oppose at 56% - where Catholics stood in 2004 before dropping 12 points
* White evangelicals dropped 7 percentage points between 2004-2008, and strong opposition is actually fluctuating - the only group to change directions. Perhaps people are leaving evangelical denominations are joining friendlier groups and this has changed the sample identifying as evangelical.
* Only 5% of non-religious folks strongly oppose same-sex marriage
Lets not forget that 47% of Americans polled support same-sex marriage now. Other major national polls have support at 52-58% - but all polls have one thing in common, opposition is quickly declining while support is rapidly increasing.
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