The New York Times reports:
A poll this year by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that the percentage of Republicans ages 18 through 29 who favor same-sex marriage has grown to 37 percent, up from 28 percent eight years ago.
“The students I know who are conservative are far less so on social issues than our parents,” Ms. Kotzambasis, 19, said. “People are more accepting of different lifestyles.”
Younger Republicans are also the most likely members of the party to say that “more people of different races marrying each other” and “more women in the work force” have been changes for the better, according to a separate Pew study conducted last year.
Clearly, there’s still a lot of work to be done, as 37 percent is still tragically low. (And “lifestyles?” Really? Come on, Ms. Kotzambasis. That word fell out of popular use as a descriptor of LGBT identity before you were even born.) But the fact that an increasing number of young Republicans are rejecting right-wing social conservatism is encouraging indeed.
Now if we can only educated those individuals into realizing that a non-heterosexual orientation is not a lifestyle.
“Republican Party Broadening Appeal in Younger Adults”
Hey, it’s progress and I’ll take any progress. Time is on OUR side and that’s the point to celebrate.
For years I have said to all reubs that their party will regain its credibility when it splits away from its fascist wing. Let the social conservative wackos form their own political party and run their candidates out in the open, instead of riding on the backs of a larger group. I often wonder what they would call their party… no doubt they would include the word “family” in it.
phew! it seems there WILL be a day i don’t have to be embarrassed to say i’m a gay republican! i’m usually categorized immediately with the self hating gays or the whackjobs and i’m neither….
jc–no, sorry, that won’t happen anytime soon. As long as the GOP is dominated by sadists, liars and wackjobs who want nothing less than to eradicate gays, your wish to be a part of that milieu will always be looked on with bewilderment and contempt.