Well Of course I'm the one who is going to bring this up.
I want to remind Americans that they think themselves the cream of the the crop when it comes to Liberties, Freedoms and that Right to pursue happiness crap that America is supposed to represent.
Back in Europe the Europeans are shocked and Appalled as just how restrict and how in your personal live the American Governments are:
David, the Europeans should know that this is not the 'whole' America that's against gay marriage. America is so divided on this gay marriage issue, and I think they made a good point when they said, 'In Europe, where legal gay unions took years to evolve, attitudes about same-sex marriage are shifting with a younger generation of Americans. A CBS/New York Times poll last year found that Americans under 30 favor gay marriage by 61 percent to 35 percent. People 65 and older opposed it by a 73 to 18 percent margin. In 20 years, that first group will be running the country. Maybe one of them will also be in the White House.
On the one hand they see America putting people to death (through capital punishment) and on the other hand they see that men and women don't have the right to love other men and women and marry them. They are wondering, that from a religious point of view, how could one be wrong and one be right. Interesting!
According to what's said in the article, I can see where the Europeans would be shocked.
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Reading about the age difference in attitudes (above) I'm reminded of the history of science.
It was Max Planck, the physicist, who noted that scientific thinking was not changed by older and established scientists having a conversion like that of Saul to Paul. Once they had spent much of their lives believing, for example, that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, let alone of the solar system, they could never bring themselves to admit that their years of study and learning were wasted on a falsity.The change from one view to the other was effected by younger generations who were ready to view the case anew and afresh.Eventually the older generations died out and their immutable beliefs died with them, leaving in the decreasing minority those few who stil adhered to them.
As with science so with the attitudes and beliefs of younger and older generations now.
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