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Poll Shows Americans Are Slipping Back Into Authoritarian Moral Model

A recent poll shows that Americans are still having trouble understanding what their roll is in enforcing their moral models of behavior on other adults when it comes to sexual relations and marriage. A slim majority across the United States jumping to almost 2/3rds of the population in the Southern States feel that states should have the right to prohibit gay marriage.

It is surprising that a nation that has prided itself for hundreds of years as being a bastion of freedom in a world of suppression would morally browbeat those who would follow through with exercising that freedom in one of the most intimate ways possible…the freedom to create a family unit as they see and understand it. I have never understood the desire by people to control behavior that has virtually no effect on the health and safety of themselves and their communities. However, the national mood is changing and it seems to be the youth of the nation that is pushing that change. Seventy-one percent of college freshmen support same-sex marriage while at the same time right wing political leaders and religious leaders are stumping for stricter laws against civil unions that respect individuals rights to determine the family unit that meets their personal needs best.

We are lucky as a nation that the majority cannot just take civil rights away from groups such as homosexuals and racial minorities. In fact, our constitution prohibits it. This fact does not stop moral conservators who claim the high ground of preserving family values from pushing laws that are seen as increasingly bizarre by the under forty generation. Although our nation does not allow majorities to limit the civil rights of perceived minorities, America does not recognized sexual preference as protected when it comes to the concept of marriage. While religious organizations have every right to keep members of their religion from violating its moral tenets, the state has no right whatsoever to oblige moral censors by not recognizing civil unions by same sex couples and in the spirit of our highest laws should provide them every protection and privilege that unions between a man and a woman.

To date, states are still allowed to determine if civil unions are legal in their territories and individuals who see this as a suppression of their civil and constitutional rights should stand up and declare loudly that all forms of government should butt out of what is clearly a decision made between two consenting adults who are not endangering anyone in any manner.

15.02.2012 Survey News No Comments