There have been a number of interesting comments related to the new Gallup data showing America’s socially-liberal shift continuing apace, but before I get to them I want to offer one more word on the data point I plucked out for my Sunday column: The appreciable increase in public acceptance of polygamy.
In my column, I argued that this (still on the margins) shift was of a piece with other liberalizing trends, not only on same-sex marriage but also on divorce and unwed childbearing and assisted suicide and more, while also noting that polygamy is distinctive within that issue set because its most famous practitioners often belong to deeply illiberal religious communities. This last point was picked up by Mark Silk at Religion News, who used it to reach for a “gotcha” against what he apparently sees as my right-wing fearmongering:
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