LGBT community grows increasingly more accepted

By Kevin Moylett
April 23, 2015

According to Pew Research, millennials are more accepting of the LGBT community than people of previous generations. It shows that there has been a rise in support for same-sex relationships over the past decade.

But why is that? Is it because people have changed?

“I think most people lately, including myself, have been more open minded and accepting to what individuals want,” Kyle Barth, junior biology major, said. “It’s none of my business what people do in their personal lives. Whatever makes people happy.”

According to Pew Research polling in 2014, 67 percent of millennials were in favor of same-sex marriage. This is a high percentage considering that just ten years prior only 44 percent of millennials were in favor of same-sex marriage.

Even the prior generation as a whole, Generation X, has changed their views on same-sex marriage lately. In 2014, 53 percent of Generation X were in favor of same-sex marriage. This is a 13 percent increase from 2004.

“When my brother first told our family about being gay, we were all a little taken back by it at first. It took some time but now my sister, my mom and I have all come to peace with his decision and fully support his life style choice,” Shari Schugar, member of Generation X, said. “I think this most recent generation has done a good job of being more accepting and that has affected me and my generation.”

According to more Pew Research polling in 2014, more women are in favor of same-sex marriage than men. 55 percent of women are in favor of same-sex marriage, opposed to 49 percent of men.

The male gender’s view on this topic has changed though. Just as recent as 2009, only 32 percent of men were in favor of same sex-marriage. That percent has risen every year since.

Something that always seems to come up in the debate of same-sex marriage is morality: whether or not we would be compromising our morals allowing sex-sex marriage. A lot of people believe marriage is meant for a man and a woman, that it is the first step before conceiving a child.

In a survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, 42 percent of millennial respondents said sex between two adults of the same gender was morally acceptable. That still leaves a considerable amount of people who believe that sex between two adults of the same gender is immoral.

 

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