Monday, May 23, 2011

Are Some Wingnuts Beginning to Realize They Are Losing the "Culture Wars"

Generally, the rabid anti-LGBT elements are disconnected from real world reality as they seem to increasingly live in a fantasy world of their own making. And even those who recognize that the larger society is moving away from their brand of hate and intolerance, they rarely will utter the fact publicly preferring to continue to shake down their dwindling flock of followers for every last dollar possible before they disappear into total irrelevance. Focus on the Family fits this description and, as a result, it was surprising to see Jim Daly, the titular head of FOTF since Daddy Dobson's supposed retirement admit that they have "lost" on the issue of same sex marriage. True, frauds and hypocrites - e.g., Maggie Gallagher, Tony Perkins, Benedict XVI and fellow haters - will continue their rants (and in the case of the first two individuals, their self-enrichment ), but the younger generation's largely ceasing to listen to them. Or if they do hear them, the anti-LGBT rant seems to drive them from religion rather than from their support for equality. Here are highlights from World Magazine where Daly acknowledged the inevitable:
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What about same-sex marriage? We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don't know if that's going to change with a little more age—demographers would say probably not. We've probably lost that. I don't want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture.
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Any thoughts on President Obama? I may not agree with any of his policies. I do appreciate that he's married to his first wife and raising his two children. We need more men like that. I once said that America would be better off if we had more families that reflected the Obamas, and a lot of conservatives went nuts with that, but it's true! Some of the conservative candidates that we put up—between a couple of them recently, I think they had seven or eight marriages. That seems a bit hypocritical.

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