RE: Two excellent reasons to OPPOSE gay marriage in the UK
May 18, 2013 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2013 at 6:16 pm by ideologue08.)
(May 18, 2013 at 5:57 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Really? How do you explain all these polls, which show the majority of people support same-sex marriage and that majority is increasing:Without even looking at those polls, I know there is a slight majority in favour of gay marriage according to most polls, but do they care enough to actually go out and cast a vote for it? I genuinely don't think so, if yes, then why are the gay lobby determined not have a referendum, why do they want to force the issue in parliament, what do they have to fear? I think it's the turn out. And plus, polls in the UK are not like the US for some reason, there's an article about it on the BBC. Opinion polls can give horribly wrong result, there's actually an effect (I forgot the name of it) where people tend to give the PC answer because they don't want to seem "bigoted", or they tend to give an answer people are expecting etc. That's what happened in the 1992 British general election, where people have actually done studies about it. So I take the polls with a pinch of salt, and as for a referendum, bring it on!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_ma...ic_opinion
Edit: Fixed a link!