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Ignore
the mainstream media: Americans
still believe in one man, one woman
By AWR Hawkins
6/26/2011
For
years, the mainstream media has
done their level best to make the redefinition of marriage seem
inevitable. As
if in concert, local, regional, and national outlets have published the
results
of poll after poll under headlines like “Majority of Americans Now
Supports
Same-Sex ‘Marriage,’” all in an attempt to silence opposition and
create an
atmosphere wherein they can finally see the fabrication of same-sex
“marriage”
achieved. But in order for this to happen, they have to persuade
every-day,
salt-of-the-earth Americans that the ideal of marriage – a union
existing only
between one man and one woman – is no longer worthy of defense.
The
good news for the media is they
may have almost succeeded in persuading a sufficient number of
salt-of-the-earth Americans to give up the fight. The bad news for the
media is
that almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. And when the
Alliance
Defense Fund and Public Opinion Strategies announced their latest
marriage
research data on June 16, data that included a scientific national poll
conducted May 16-19 of this year, it was quite evident we weren’t
playing with
horseshoes or grenades.
The
research reveals that 62 percent
of Americans believe that “marriage should be defined as a union
between one
man and one woman.” By the way, not only is 62 percent a majority of
Americans,
it’s a solid majority. And it shouldn’t surprise anyone because it is
right in
line with what we’ve seen in voter opinion from around the country when
those
voters have been given the choice to either protect marriage in their
state
constitutions or leave it open to legal challenges or other attacks.
What
should we do with this news?
While
it should cheer us, it must also
serve as a reminder that we cannot allow ourselves to fall prey to the
machinations of the mainstream media, which frequently employs polls
not simply
to report public opinion, but to frame it.
For
example, in July 2010, amid the
debate surrounding Proposition 8, the L.A. Times released the findings
of a
survey which made it look like there was a surge of support for
changing the
legal definition of marriage in California. However, it was soon
learned that
the survey had been conducted by a group supportive of same-sex
couples, whose
goal was to use the survey to “develop religious education strategies
supporting gay equality.” The comprehensive ADF and POS research, on
the other
hand, included numerous focus groups and a scientific survey that did
not pose
the question in biased language to achieve a particular politically
correct
result. It simply asked if “marriage should be defined only as a union
between
one man and one woman.” And the resounding answer—just like at the
ballot
box—was “yes.”
So,
is same-sex “marriage” really
inevitable? No more so than the disappearance of the ozone layer that
my
science teacher warned me about in 8th grade, or the dangers of
man-made global
warming all the Chicken Littles in the leftist establishment keep
talking
about, or the likelihood of a cow actually jumping over the moon.
What
is inevitable right now are the
facts, and those facts say that 62 percent of Americans believe
marriage should
be defined as a union between a man and a woman.
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