Survey: The more Americans support gay ‘marriage,’ the less they support marriage in general
The
National Survey of Family Growth concludes that while more and more Americans
support homosexual "marriage," they simultaneously support marriage
less and less.
The U.S. Health and Human Services survey, using data
from 2011 to 2013, revealed increasing apathy toward marriage in general and a
disconnect from the positive role marriage should play in families and
individuals.
Sixty percent of women ages 15-44 say sodomy is
"all right" (up from 42 percent in 2002). Seventy-five percent of
women say gay couples should be able to adopt vulnerable children (up from 55
percent). Among men, approval of homosexual adoption is up from 47 percent in
2002 to 68 percent.
Seventy-eight percent of women say it's perfectly fine
to bear children out of wedlock (up from 70 percent). And nearly three quarters
of both men and women are okay with unmarried, cohabiting couples raising a
child without even planning a wedding.
Marriage has become so disconnected from sex and
children that a majority of young adults defend fornication on moral grounds,
saying cohabitation "helps prevent divorce" later on.
Family Research Council senior fellow Peter Sprigg
says the results are not surprising, because the politically correct approval
of homosexuality goes hand in hand with decaying morals.
"Greater acceptance of the homosexual movement
tends to reinforce the breakdown of traditional norms with regard to sexual
behavior among heterosexuals as well,"the Washington Times quotes the pro-family leader as
saying. "I think the two things are mutually self-reinforcing."
"I think it is very unfortunate," Sprigg
said. "The idea that cohabitation will somehow prevent divorce has been
completely debunked by the social science. We have a lot of research on that,
and it's quite clear that people who cohabit before marriage and more likely to
get divorced, not less."
Ed Vitagliano, executive vice president of the
American Family Association (AFA), told LifeSiteNews, "So the American
public has rejected what God has clearly communicated about mankind in nature –
that we are male and female? We have ignored what nature says about marriage?
Then we should not be surprised when our ignorance only increases."
"As a people, we are embracing same-sex marriage,
which results in despising the gift of male-female marriage itself,"
Vitagliano explained. "We can expect the darkness to only increase."
The pro-family leader then noted what the Bible
teaches about how, when men turn away from what is natural, they turn away from
the Creator. "Sometimes Christians read Romans 1:18-32 as if the passage
is only about homosexuality, when it is about so much more than that. It is
about seeing God in nature and rejecting Him," Vitagliano said. "Then
a downward death spiral commences."
Romans 1:18-32, written by the Apostle Paul, talks
about "men who by their wickedness suppress the truth." It explains
that the existence of God "is plain to them," because God has shown
"His eternal power and deity" through creation, and thus, God
"has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made." Men
who refuse to acknowledge and honor God "or give thanks to Him"
become "futile in their thinking and their senseless minds ... darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they become fools[.]"
The AFA's Ed Vitagliano offers hope out of mankind's
malaise. "The good news is that the rest of Romans points the way out of
the darkness," he told LifeSiteNews. "Perhaps God will grant
the repentance necessary – both inside and outside of the church – so that
revival might come."
"Then the spiral down into deeper darkness will
halt, and light can flood the land once again."
