Carl T. BergstromJun 18, 2023

It's not religion that is driving the resurgent moral panic about LBGTQ people in the USA. You don't get a 15% shift beliefs in a year due to growing religious sentiment.

It's cynical opportunists trying to ride to power on populist sentiment by delegating and demonizing an outgroup.

Fuck every one of them.

Show threadCarl T. BergstromJun 18, 2023
I am legit baffled about the decline in acceptance among democrats. Any ideas what is going on here?
Show threadDave RandJun 18, 2023
@ct_bergstrom could just be noise - looks like a straight trend line would fit the data pretty well?
Show threadCarl T. BergstromJun 18, 2023

@Drand Could be. It's a shit article – best as I can tell, they never tell us the sample size or margin of error, and the raw data are percentages rather than counts.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/507230/fewer-say-sex-relations-morally-acceptable.aspx

Show threadJollyJun 18, 2023

@ct_bergstrom @Drand

They give the sample size, and MOE in the pdf linked at the end of the article.

1011 respondents, +- 4%

This seems like noise to me.

Show threadThomas Lumley
@jolly @ct_bergstrom @Drand that's for the whole sample. Within Democrats it's more like 7% -- they report only 195 self-identified Democrats answering that question if you look at the full tables https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/507239/230619MoralIssues.pdf
Jun 18, 2023 at 3:36amWeb