Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues

[applegrove]

Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues

http://www.gallup.com/poll/183413/americans-continue-shift-left-key-moral-issues.aspx?utm_source=Social%20Issues&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles

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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level.

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This latest update on Americans' views of the moral acceptability of various issues and behaviors is from Gallup's May 6-10 Values and Beliefs survey. The complete results for each of the 19 issues tested in this year's survey appear at the end of the article. Gallup has tracked these moral issues in this format since the early 2000s.

The upward progression in the percentage of Americans seeing these issues as morally acceptable has varied from year to year, but the overall trend clearly points toward a higher level of acceptance of a number of behaviors. In fact, the moral acceptability ratings for 10 of the issues measured since the early 2000s are at record highs.

Americans have become less likely to say that two issues are morally acceptable: the death penalty and medical testing on animals. But Americans' decreased acceptance of these practices actually moves them in a more liberal direction.


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[applegrove]

1. Obama has been a transformational presidency.

[Wilms]

3. With help from *.

GWB's tenure finally got some republicans to think.

Disclaimer: Anecdotal observations.

[woo me with science]

2. People have had enough of the worship of money over caring for human beings.

This nation has become predatory, and I think there is a growing tide of awareness that we need to change this nation in fundamental ways. To value human beings again. To embrace liberal values.

There is a pushback now, demanding that this nation value people over profits. That is why Bernie is surging in the polls, why Hillary will continue to fall, and why the nation is crying out for honest, genuine liberal values and principles.

[applegrove]

4. +1

[Scuba]

7. + another

[progree]

5. Abortion morally acceptable: from 42% in 2001 to 45% in 2015

Hmm. Not good though an improvement.

[Coventina]

6. "morals" are not left or right. They are right or wrong.

My complaint is with Gallop, not the OP, BTW.

I would rewrite that headline to say that Americans are becoming more moral in that valuing people (and animals, in the case of animal testing) is more important than judging or using them.

YMMV