Americans Hold Record Liberal Views on Most Moral Issues

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Americans continue to express an increasingly liberal outlook on what is morally acceptable, as their views on 10 of 19 moral issues that Gallup measures are the most left-leaning or permissive they have been to date. The percentages of U.S. adults who believe birth control, divorce, sex between unmarried people, gay or lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage, doctor-assisted suicide, pornography and polygamy are morally acceptable practices have tied record highs or set new ones this year. At the same time, record lows say the death penalty and medical testing on animals are morally acceptable.
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In the span of around ten years, the following have become more morally acceptable in America:
  • same-sex relations (40 to 63%)
  • having a child outside of marriage (45 to 32%)
  • fornication (53 to 69%)
  • divorce (59 to 73)
  • polygamy (7 to 17)
  • embryonic stem cell research (52 to 61)
  • euthanasia (49 to 57)
  • pornography (2011 to 2017) (30 to 36)
  • suicide (13 to 18)
  • sex between teens (32 to 36)
Medical testing on animals (65 to 51) and capital punishment (63 to 58) are now less acceptable.
Adultery (7 to 9), birth control (89 to 91) and abortion (42 to 43) are deemed not to have changed. (margin of error is 4%)
 
ATraveller said:
gallup.com/poll/210542/americans-hold-record-liberal-views-moral-issues.aspx?g_source=Social+Issues&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles
In the span of around ten years, the following have become more morally acceptable in America:
  • same-sex relations (40 to 63%)
  • having a child outside of marriage (45 to 32%)
  • fornication (53 to 69%)
  • divorce (59 to 73)
  • polygamy (7 to 17)
  • embryonic stem cell research (52 to 61)
  • euthanasia (49 to 57)
  • pornography (2011 to 2017) (30 to 36)
  • suicide (13 to 18)
  • sex between teens (32 to 36)
Medical testing on animals (65 to 51) and capital punishment (63 to 58) are now less acceptable.
Adultery (7 to 9), birth control (89 to 91) and abortion (42 to 43) are deemed not to have changed. (margin of error is 4%)
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That doesn’t make them right. I am curious though what about people who hold socially conservative views but economically liberal views? I would definitely put myself more as an economic conservative but I would imagine that people who hold the views I describe would be quite common amongst Catholics. I mean there’s the other way around too there are people who are socially liberal and economically conservative we call them libertarians. I don’t see why these polls think everyone fits on a neat little spectrum. I mean isn’t it amazing? We live in an age where gender is on a spectrum but politics aren’t
 
This is terrible. If we stop testing drugs on animals then we will all die. God gave us animals to use them and make the best out of them, not raise them to human status. Animal right’s activist groups make me very annoyed. :mad:

Those other things are also very disturbing. It looks like we are turning into a very perverted society (if you think about it, look at what young people are wearing: women are wearing very immodest clothes, but just 100 years ago women wore dresses which went down to their feet). If we keep this up, then we will be the next Sodom and Gomorrah. 😦
 
Take a good look at human history and this is not surprising.

Morals always swing back and forth.
 
Its more scary to think about what will become accepted and tolerated in the next 10-20 yrs! Something tells me it will get a whole lot worse if this is where we are at right now.
 
Well i can only find 2 ‘‘Liberal Views’’ i can partly agree with. 🤷

The rest ehhhh NO!
 
While I do believe that sin is highly progressive, I do find it strange that abortion was legalized in the 1970s and here we are in the 2010s, and outright murder is still condemned and seen as wrong. Ive never heard anyone calling for murder to become legal, or trying to brainwash the people into thinking its ok.

Even with young children, news of a child being killed still sends shockwaves thru communities, its not like people have become totally desensitized to killing in general.

IDK, maybe things like this just take longer, or…?
 
mikekle said:
While I do believe that sin is highly progressive, I do find it strange that abortion was legalized in the 1970s and here we are in the 2010s, and outright murder is still condemned and seen as wrong. Ive never heard anyone calling for murder to become legal, or trying to brainwash the people into thinking its ok.

Even with young children, news of a child being killed still sends shockwaves thru communities, its not like people have become totally desensitized to killing in general.

IDK, maybe things like this just take longer, or…?
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Than what about capital punishment? 🤷
 
Melodeonist said:
This is terrible. If we stop testing drugs on animals then we will all die. God gave us animals to use them and make the best out of them, not raise them to human status. Animal right’s activist groups make me very annoyed. :mad:
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How do you figure that we will “all die” if we try and phase out animal testing? Seems like a very strange statement to me.

I don’t think anyone is calling for us to raise animals to human status, just to stop engaging in activities which clearly causes them a lot of pain and suffering.
 
Regular_Atheist said:
How do you figure that we will “all die” if we try and phase out animal testing? Seems like a very strange statement to me.

I don’t think anyone is calling for us to raise animals to human status, just to stop engaging in activities which clearly causes them a lot of pain and suffering.
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Especially now that we are leaning that animals are much more than dumb brutes. They have feelings, culture, rudimentary language, etc. It’s tough to take an animal that appears to be self aware to a certain extent and stuff it full of poison to see what happens. I personally think we can do better than that.
 
LVCIVS_DEI said:
Than what about capital punishment? 🤷
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Lets just say I am skeptical whenever biblical interpretations benefit the secular authority and the power they are justified to exercise.

If its a sin for us, its a sin for them as well…what is a Govt after all…it is made up of PEOPLE.

Id like to hear one example of something the Govt (secular authority) does that the church views as wrong/ sinful and overstepping their bounds and instructs the laypeople NOT to partake in or obey.
 
mikekle said:
Lets just say I am skeptical whenever biblical interpretations benefit the secular authority and the power they are justified to exercise.

If its a sin for us, its a sin for them as well…what is a Govt after all…it is made up of PEOPLE.

Id like to hear one example of something the Govt (secular authority) does that the church views as wrong and overstepping their bounds and instructs the laypeople NOT to partake in or obey.
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In the case of abortion the ones who partake in it are automatically excommunicated, so should it be with capital punishment. 🤷
 
I blame cable TV. All these bizzare shows making things like SSM and Polygamy seem everyday and fully acceptable. Wathcing some of the home improvement shows you would think the US population as nearly 50% same sex couples! Pray for what is right, please!

I still have trouble believing a sample size of just over 1000 can accurately represent a population of over 300,000,000. Of course I got a D in Probability and Statistics…twice!😃
 
ATraveller said:
gallup.com/poll/210542/americans-hold-record-liberal-views-moral-issues.aspx?g_source=Social+Issues&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles
In the span of around ten years, the following have become more morally acceptable in America:
  • same-sex relations (40 to 63%)
  • having a child outside of marriage (45 to 32%)
  • fornication (53 to 69%)
  • divorce (59 to 73)
  • polygamy (7 to 17)
  • embryonic stem cell research (52 to 61)
  • euthanasia (49 to 57)
  • pornography (2011 to 2017) (30 to 36)
  • suicide (13 to 18)
  • sex between teens (32 to 36)
Medical testing on animals (65 to 51) and capital punishment (63 to 58) are now less acceptable.
Adultery (7 to 9), birth control (89 to 91) and abortion (42 to 43) are deemed not to have changed. (margin of error is 4%)
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Interesting that having a kid outside marriage seems to be the only thing going the other direction?
 
ATraveller said:
gallup.com/poll/210542/americans-hold-record-liberal-views-moral-issues.aspx?g_source=Social+Issues&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles
In the span of around ten years, the following have become more morally acceptable in America:
  • same-sex relations (40 to 63%)
  • having a child outside of marriage (45 to 32%)
  • fornication (53 to 69%)
  • divorce (59 to 73)
  • polygamy (7 to 17)
  • embryonic stem cell research (52 to 61)
  • euthanasia (49 to 57)
  • pornography (2011 to 2017) (30 to 36)
  • suicide (13 to 18)
  • sex between teens (32 to 36)
Medical testing on animals (65 to 51) and capital punishment (63 to 58) are now less acceptable.
Adultery (7 to 9), birth control (89 to 91) and abortion (42 to 43) are deemed not to have changed. (margin of error is 4%)
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Never before has the culture been so dependent on the media, and never before have the media been so centralized into a very few hands. The role of the Church is always to be a prophetic witness.

A prophet is one who proclaims whatever truth is currently forgotten, or currently fading away. A prophet is one who denounces whatever evils are currently becoming more acceptable.

There is a lot of pressure on the Church to de emphasize abortion and same sex marriage, and to give equal attention to each of the top 20 issues. I hear sermons and read articles that it is awful to give more attention to immorality of birth control or euthanasia than we give to the immorality of capital punishment.

I for one am pleased capital punishment is becoming less acceptable. Secular society is usually right about some things. The Church should briefly commend the good trends already in process, which would also include concern for the environment. But the main priority should be the truths that are forgotten, the evils that are ****currently ****gaining. Lots of good trends will go on regardless of what the Church says. But some good trends will never happen without the Church’s voice.
 
Padres1969 said:
Interesting that having a kid outside marriage seems to be the only thing going the other direction?
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Some trends take awhile to sink in, with their full consequences. Americans have had high rates of acceptance of abortion for some time. The stigma for having a child outside wedlock used to reflect “why did you have sex outside marriage?”. Now it is more stigma of "why did you allow *that **child *to be born, without ‘planning’?’

The extremely high rate of aborting children with Down Syndrome and other conditions will, in the long run, affect how we regard persons with disabilities.
 
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