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[EarlG]

More Americans Are Comfortable With A Gay Presidential Candidate Than With An Evangelical One

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[SoapBox]

1. Take that Pukes and Bagger!

[Canoe52]

32. I don't know...

That 52% figure scares me!

[NYC_SKP]

2. And, thankfully, our suite of Democratic Party contenders for the high office agree!

[cilla4progress]

5. Nice...

props to you for give props to all candidates on our side. This is how I plan to proceed. Goddess bless 'em, one and all!

[yuiyoshida]

20. Im stealing your

Rainbow Bernie sig line

[RKP5637]

3. Wow, this is great!!!! n/t

[brooklynite]

4. But we can still hate the atheists, right?

[Buzz Clik]

10. I don't bother to discriminate -- I hate everyone.

[Mr.Bill]

24. I bet Atheist would poll

in the single digits on his question.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. I have seen several polls...

asking about Muslim, gay, atheist, etc, candidates for the presidency. We atheists always come in dead last. While we may not be attacked as often as other groups (probably because we don't talk about it, especially if we live in the bible belt) we tend to be one of the most hated.

[Moostache]

6. Its polls like this that stun me...

If this is accurate, and I am not doubting that it is since the social mores of the age have been changing very rapidly ever since the world did not end once a few states allowed gays to have marriage equality; but if it is accurate across the entire voting population I am stunned that the GOP is not in full decline LOCALLY as well as NATIONALLY.

The gerrymandering that they pulled off by being in charge of re-districting following the 2000 and 2010 censuses is astounding.

In addition to term limits, strictly enforced and publicly funded elections and rescinding the draconian voter ID laws in favor of mandatory voting of ALL citizens of legal status to do so, fixing the damn voting districts to end this nonsense should be of paramount concern.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. seriously.

I'm glad the percentage of sane, decent people is higher, but it's still stunning to see the troglodyte level so high.

Evangelical christians are some of the sickest tickets going.

[lame54]

7. Marcus Bachmann for President

[awoke_in_2003]

29. No way in hell...

I don't want his wife any where near the White House. I don't even want her to see it.

[snort]

35. It would be 4 glorious years

of choosing draperies and signing anti-gay legislation.

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. So Wisconsin DOES have a potentially viable Presidential candidate after all!

We can substitute (lesbian) Tammy Baldwin for (evangelical) Scott Walker. Much more electable!

[AuntPatsy]

9. .

[alp227]

11. 61 vs 52? Are there really people ok with either?

The poll must have used "evangelical" as a qualifier, importantly.

[MADem]

21. Surely there are gay evangelical Christians....

And surely not all evangelical Christians are of the "fundamentalist" variety...?

I'm a bit out of my wheelhouse on this matter, but I don't think all "evangelical Christians" are necessarily conservative and fundamentalist. My Google tells me so!

http://ecinc.org/

https://evangelicaliberal.wordpress.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_left

[NewJeffCT]

12. ha, but after that lawsuit victory

with the woman suing ALL gay people, you gays will be finished, finished I tell ya!

[douggg]

13. Why such exclusivity?

Get a Ted Haggard and we get evangelical, conservative, gay and drug use as an added bonus.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. K/R

!!

[malthaussen]

15. 52%? I'm not comfortable with that figure!

I can but shake my head in dismay.

-- Mal

[d_legendary1]

18. You and me both

Its means 52% of those surveyed have no problems with Cruz or
A-Yuck-abee taking the white house.

[MADem]

22. See the links at post 21. Not all evangelicals are fundies, apparently.

Some are liberal. Some are gay.

Who knew?

It looks like people are taking back that end of the Christian religious spectrum and it is no longer the exclusive province of fundie conservatives.

When you think about it, it makes sense. Wasn't the Jesus of the Bible an "evangelical" who spread the "Good news?" Wasn't he the guy who didn't have a word to say about being gay? Wasn't he the guy who was so liberal, one might call him a socialist? Sharing all that food, healing the sick, sheltering the homeless, suffering all those little children to come unto him, etc...?

If the idea of being "evangelical" is to be like the Jesus of the Bible spreading the word of a religion of love, then being a religious liberal who doesn't worry about gays or abortion fits the bill, I'd say.

[malthaussen]

30. Yes, I'm sure there are some...

... since all human behavior is subject to the tyranny of the bell curve. The question, however, is how large of a percentage of the respondents perceive evangelicals as super-conservatives, and how many see them as liberal. No stats on that, but I instinctively feel the number is few.

-- Mal

[7962]

16. I dont know any gays who long for the end of the world. nt

[MADem]

19. The tipping point, at long last!

It took awhile, but here we are!

Great graphic, EG!

[Initech]

23. Remember Bush won critical states by playing the "Teh gays are evil!!!!!1!!1!" card.

Thankfully this isn't 2000 anymore and no candidate, not even the "holier than thou" candidates like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee can pull that shit again or they'll be laughed out of the primaries.

[mountain grammy]

25. We had an evangelical Christian President in Jimmy Carter..

It totally can work, depends on the man. I once asked my evangelical brother in law how he could be so critical of that wonderful Christian President Carter.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

26. say hello to E V O L U T I O N

[Quasimodem]

27. A gay or lesbian president okay ...

... but didn't we already have an evangelical president?

Of course, he was also a dry drunk, but that didn't seem to matter to the evangelicals.

[eridani]

31. I love this feature! Please don't ever get tired of doing it. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. I still keep thinking about the fact that Republicans RAN on being anti-gay in '04.

[Amimnoch]

34. Some more data on the poll:

The poll was on a lot more than questioning comfort with a gay candidate or an evangelical.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/what-americans-want-dont-want-presidential-candidate-n354141

The following shows the results. Note, they used "enthusiastic," "comfortable," "have reservations" or "uncomfortable" based question on each category, then subtracted the "have reservations" or "uncomfortable" replies from the Enthusiastic" or "comfortable" replies with the following results:

[Iliyah]

36. The Christian Right (and I say that extremely loosely)

are persecuted!