This is going to come as an upset to the Pat Robertson/Jihad crowd, but a recent PEW report of the Millennial generation (born after 1980) states that, of the 50% of Millenials that are for gay marriage, 45% of them are “Religiously Affiliated”. This reflects a very interesting turn in, not necessarily acceptance of homosexuals, but certainly (what I would refer to as) an even-headedness about the difference in what we believe to be right for our lives, and what we see as a burden on society as a whole.
I mean, if I’m going to go to a deomcratic vote about what’s best for the country, I’m not going to deny someone the right to visit a person they love in the hospital because of what he or she does with that person behind closed door. And with so many orphaned children on this planet, I’d rather allow gay couples to adopt and nurture that child then let the kid rot in one of those awful group homes. So what if they raise the kid with a different understanding of sexuality then I would raise my own with? I’d rather that child be loved and possibly gay (not that being raised by a same sex couple automatically makes you gay) then be tossed around in the system their whole lives.
Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but it seems that many others people of faith in my generation feel the same way.
