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Surprising new data from Gallup shows decreased support for gay marriage among Americans, with a six-percentage-point decline this year when compared to a high in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly,\u201d a\u00a0report\u00a0from Gallup reads. \u201cApproval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.\u201d<\/p>\n
The biggest shifts emerged among Republicans, with a stunning 18% decrease in support for same-sex nuptials. In 2021 and 2022, 55% of Republicans\u00a0supported\u00a0gay marriage, but that statistic is now at just 37%. And among Independents, it is down six points, though 67% still favor it. Democrats remain at 87% and are essentially unchanged.<\/p>\n
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a Christian organization, believes many people have shifted their opinions based on the realization that same-sex marriage has had a far more negative and massive impact than was initially assumed. At first, many proponents of gay marriage legalization said it wouldn\u2019t affect anyone else\u2019s marriages \u2014 or culture more broadly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think most Americans are pretty much laissez-faire \u2026\u2019Just don\u2019t bother me,’\u201d Perkins\u00a0said. \u201cAnd they were sold that this was not going to affect them, that this was just about two people who loved each other being able to marry.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cWell, here we are \u2026 about a little over a decade removed from that, and we realize it\u2019s about much more. It\u2019s about the policies that govern bathrooms all across America, it\u2019s about what our children are being indoctrinated with in schools and the parents not being told about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perkins said he believes the decline in support is based on these factors \u2014 issues that have gone above and beyond what was pledged. The transgender issue, in particular, further complicated matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that, in particular, is what has brought down the approval of all of this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n While there\u2019s evidence of increased spiritual interest and fervor in America today, Perkins said he believes the shifts, particularly among Republicans, are more rooted in a \u201cpragmatic understanding of what these policies lead to,\u201d including moral implications for families. Still, he\u2019s hoping for a spiritual impact to follow as well.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m hoping that maybe out of this, we rediscover that biblical worldview from a standpoint, when we deviate from God\u2019s design, there are horrible consequences that follow, like our children being transed, and \u2026 our schools taken over by this agenda, and parents being locked out of the process,\u201d Perkins said.<\/p>\n With biblical worldview statistics remaining dire and quite low, Perkins is hoping to see Christians do a better job of helping people understand the moral underpinnings of these important issues.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the approaches I\u2019m taking to even this polling data with the Gallup, where there has been a downturn in support for same-sex marriage among Republicans who are more open to transcendent truth and morality than the Democrats of today, is that we connect the dots,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I take it back to the redefinition of marriage. We wouldn\u2019t be fighting over bathrooms had we not redefined marriage, we would not be having men in girls\u2019 sports if we had not redefined marriage, we would not be trying to protect our children from having healthy body parts cut off had we not redefined marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n Perkins continued, \u201cAnd once you deviate from the biblical truth of marriage, human sexuality, and life, it leads down a very destructive path. So I\u2019m hoping that we can kind of reverse-engineer where we are and show people how we got here so that we can go back in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Read all of Gallup\u2019s data on gay marriage and LGBT issues\u00a0here.<\/p>\n Please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Surprising new data from Gallup shows decreased support for gay marriage among Americans, with a six-percentage-point decline this year when compared to a high in 2022 and 2023. \u201cAfter two decades of rising support for LGBTQ+ issues, U.S. attitudes have plateaued and begun to slide back modestly,\u201d a\u00a0report\u00a0from Gallup reads. \u201cApproval of same-sex marriage, moral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1941,9887,2111,588,9886,4844,1934,3777,6148,1408,6451],"class_list":["post-29760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-chaos","tag-destructive","tag-gay","tag-marriage","tag-perkins","tag-reversal","tag-shift","tag-shock","tag-sparked","tag-stunning","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}