{"id":412,"date":"2015-03-05T01:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-03-05T01:19:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:19:53","slug":"in-no-shit-sherlock-news-opposition-to-marriage-equality-linked-to-disapproval-of-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/2015\/03\/05\/in-no-shit-sherlock-news-opposition-to-marriage-equality-linked-to-disapproval-of-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"In &#8220;no shit, Sherlock&#8221; news, opposition to marriage equality linked to disapproval of homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell published a <a href=\"http:\/\/scu.sagepub.com\/content\/2\/1\/3.full.pdf\">study<\/a> which analysed, among other things, why people opposed same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These data include more than 2,200 one-time interviews with a geographically and sociodemographically diverse sample of Americans, and contain both closed- and open-ended responses on attitudes toward same-sex marriage, family, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our research shows that disapproval of same-sex marriage and animus toward gays and lesbians are, indeed, highly correlated and that people who hold one of these stances usually hold the other as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nearly all respondents (90%) who strongly oppose same-sex marriage also believe that \u201csexual relations between two adults of the same sex\u201d is \u201calways wrong.\u201d In contrast, approximately five-sixths (83%) of responses who support same-sex marriage view same-sex relations as \u201cnot wrong at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/files\/2015\/03\/NSS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/files\/2015\/03\/NSS.jpg\" alt=\"NSS\" width=\"441\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/files\/2015\/03\/NSS.jpg 508w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/files\/2015\/03\/NSS-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As you can see only 6% of those who strongly disagree with LGBT couples being allowed to marry think homosexual sex is not wrong at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">None of this comes as surprise but it does undercut the nonsensical argument that opposition to marriage equality has nothing to do with homosexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell published a study which analysed, among other things, why people opposed same-sex marriage. These data&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,28,102,26],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-homosexual","tag-homosexuality","tag-marriage-equality","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}