New Zealand Conservative

Lorde or no Lorde, I won't be watching the Grammy Awards in protest of a stunt that is happening during the programme which is designed to push the gay marriage agenda in the U.S. A group, Macklemore, had a hit last year in the charts with a song called "Same Love" which pushed for the equality of same-sex couples in gay marriage. The New York Times writes - But the producers behind the program, which is to be broadcast live by CBS at 8 p.m., are hoping that the biggest show-stopper of the night will be a much more solemn event: an on-air wedding of 34 couples — gay, straight, old, young, of many races and many colors. The ceremony will be part of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s performance of their Grammy-nominated song “Same Love,” which became a marriage-equality anthem last year just as that issue was drawing intense national attention. Mr. Lewis, the group’s producer, said that the weddings “will be in our minds the ultimate statement of equalit...

Pew Forum have recently released the results of their latest polling in America on attitudes to same-sex marriage. I've copied two of the charts from their website and posted them here to highlight a couple of points that I think are particularly interesting. The first point, which can be seen on the chart below, is that support for same-sex marriage has been growing in the US since 2001 and opposition to same-sex marriage has likewise been decreasing in the same time period.  Except this year opposition has increased by 1%. Currently support for same-sex marriage is at 49% and opposition is 44%. If you go to the Pew Forum website, you'll be able to move your mouse over any of the dots and the screen will tell you what the numbers are for the other years. The second point is that most of the support is coming  from the younger generation 70% of Millennials are for same-sex marriage, ie those born in 1981 or later who are currently 32 years old or younger.  This...