Poll Time

The American Family Association, "America's Pro-Family Online Activism Organization", is conducting a poll: Gay marriage: yay, nay, or civil union? I'm pretty sure they'd like the results to be soundly "nay", because those ho-mo-seck-soo-alls are anti-family, and nothing will ruin America like promoting monogamy...or whatever. However, at the moment the "yay" is in the lead. Rock on. Stop by, vote, and pass it on...

Update: TChemgrrl has an interesting take on the poll. One that hadn't even occured to me. (No permalink, look for 12/19/03.)

An excerpt:

Problem 2: The basic setup of the poll. Option A is a straightforward "No, I don't like this in any form". Option B is an equally straightforward "I du support this". Option C says "I support this, if linguistic gymnastics are employed."

When I was able to get to the results this morning, it was something like 47% opposed to gay unions in any form, 46% for gay marriage, and 7% for a "civil union" just like marriage but with a different name. Cool, less than half the voters oppose gay marriage, right?

Not so fast. The group has built in a mechanism to do this data massaging, and I'll say what they're going to say right now, exactly as they'll say it to Congress if they get the chance:
"93% of Americans do not support homosexual civil unions".
Go ahead and read it twice--if you're one of those kooks that watches CSPAN, listen for it and let me know if you do hear it.

So, your response: "Say what?" It's understandable. Only 47% of the people that voted oppose the right of gay and lesbian couples to unite the same way as straight couples, with all the accompaning advantages.

Excellent point. And a scary thought.

(We have always been at war with Oceania.)

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