Americans are much more likely to say that religion shapes their political views on hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage than they are to say that their faith drives their opinions on social justice questions like poverty, immigration and the environment — even though clergy regularly preach about those issues. For example, almost nine [...]
The issue of gay marriage reached a polling milestone last week when, for the first time, a majority of Americans (52 percent) agreed with this statement in a CNN poll: “Gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid.” But polls are tricky, and [...]
My friend and colleague Melinda’s mouths-of-babes observation, that her 14-year-old daughter’s cohort has developed a colorblind perspective, gave me little chills on my arms. We may still have a ways to go as a “post-racial” society, but teenagers now readily recognize that, though we each have our own skin shade, eye shape, hair texture and [...]
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