According to the latest Pew Research poll, Republican acceptance of homosexuality as an acceptable choice for others, has risen to majority status.
Here are the data:
My reaction – and, I hope, yours?
Good. And about time.
Let me again ask the question I have asked so many times here: why is an individual’s sexual orientation anyone else’s business? And why, if that individual is not imposing it on others, should there be any objection to it?
Suppose you are a deeply religious person and believe that gay and lesbian people will go straight to hell for being who they are. You are certainly entitled to that view. But not entitled to demand that, because you feel this way, they should adhere to your views.
This is a personal matter. Period. And in a free country people are entitled to be who they are, not who someone else tells them they must be.
Albeit belatedly, Republicans as a group have come around on this to the point where – assuming the above data are correct – they now are in the majority.
May that number continue to grow.
Maybe someone should tell our president