{"id":78,"date":"2010-09-27T06:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/09\/same-sex-marriage-and-young-evangelicals.html"},"modified":"2010-09-27T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:31:24","slug":"same-sex-marriage-and-young-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/09\/same-sex-marriage-and-young-evangelicals.html","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage and young evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to my wish<\/a> to separate out the views on same-sex marriage of under-30 “sectarians”
\n(evangelicals), Sherkat has kindly run the numbers. What they show, as
\nhe points out on his blog<\/a>,
\nis that the gap between this cohort and its non-evangelical peers is
\nactually greater than between sectarians and non-sectarians in older age
\ncohorts. So much for the myth of young evangelical liberalism on this
\nissue.<\/p>\n

Up to a point. But it’s still the case that the under-30s are somewhat
\nmore liberal on the issue than their evangelical boomer parents–and way
\nmore liberal than over-60 evangelicals. So even though they look at
\nthis point like over-60 non-evangelicals, the evidence is of a
\nliberalizing generational trend within the evangelical community. What
\nthe data show is most segments of American society moving quickly (the
\nyounger they are) towards acceptance of SSM, with a few–under the
\ninfluence of conservative religion–moving more slowly in the same
\ndirection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Responding to my wish to separate out the views on same-sex marriage of under-30 “sectarians” (evangelicals), Sherkat has kindly run the numbers. 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