Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Nominally Boosting Public Support For Religious Liberty

by JASmius



It's not by much, and it's far less due to the details than it is the presumptuously dictatorial way in which the Roberts court forced sodomarriage on the country, but we'll take any amount of pyrrhicly futile, counter-cultural progress, any way we can get it:

The Supreme Court's ruling last month [impos]ing s[odo]marriage nationwide has left Americans sharply divided, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that suggests support for [queer] "unions" may be down slightly from earlier this year.

The poll also found a near-even split over whether local officials with religious objections should be required to issue marriage licenses to [homosexual] "couples," with 47% saying that should be the case and 49% say they should be exempt.

Overall, if there's a conflict, a majority of those questioned think religious liberties should win out over [queer] rights, according to the poll. While 39% said it's more important for the government to protect [queer] rights, 56% said protection of religious liberties should take precedence....

According to the poll, 42% support s[odo]marriage and 40% oppose it. The percentage saying they favor [mandatory] s[odo]marriage in their State was down slightly from the 48% who said so in an April poll. In January, 44% were in favor.

Asked specifically about the Supreme Court ruling, 39% said they approve and 41% said they disapprove.

So the split is more or less right down the middle on sodomarriage and on Obergefell vs. Hodges, but an additional seven or so percent are still sufficiently tolerant to cut Christians some slack.  Which really isn't consistent with Obergefell, since the ruling clearly didn't leave any legal protections for evangelicals who choose not to renounce Christ and submit to Crisco as Lord.

I think we can write off this polling anomaly to lingering Judeo-Christian/American cultural overhang, in the form of its last, dying gasp.  Eventually the support for mandatory sodomarriage and outlawing "hetero" marriage and Christianity will be unanimous by law, and Christians will be getting beheaded, shot, and crucified en masse by the Obamunist State.

Until then, the Lavender Lobby will continue to enjoy the PR cover of this moral obtusity:

Claudette Girouard, sixty-nine, a retiree from Chesterfield Township, Michigan, said she is a moderate independent voter who has gradually become supportive of letting same-sex couples marry.

"I don't see what the big hoopla is," she said. "If they're happy, why not?"

Because it's wrong, Claudette.  Just as it's wrong to force us to embrace and participate in it.  And, in the words of Nick Fury, "It's getting damned past time for you to get with that program" - before it's too late.