Interesting data from Gallup. I don't think Gallup is the best polling, and I certainly don't trust them on Presidential polling data, but this is probably reasonably good data, for what it's worth. This is what is "morally acceptable", liberals vs. conservatives. This should, although it probably won't, make it clear that they're not just some other guys part of our same community, but who disagree on the details of how to run it. This is a cohort among us that wants to destroy our society by calling good evil and evil good. I've come to the conclusion that eventually we will reach the point where there's no living together, liberals and conservatives. And by "eventually" I mean sooner than most people think. The reality is that liberals are threatening to call down the wrath of God like on Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities of the plains. I don't plan on being someone who burns in fires from heaven, and I don't plan on being someone who turns to a pillar of salt either, because I'm unwilling to let go of the world.
I'm adding my own percentages for just me. What, isn't that a yes or no? 0% or 100%? No, I've decided that 0% is my answer for "not morally acceptable", 25% is "not morally acceptable, but not really appropriate for society to unilaterally condemn or ban it either", 50%—which I probably won't use—for no opinion on the morality of this at all, 75% for I believe that it is morally acceptable, but with some caveats or reservations, and 100% for "yes, this is completely morally acceptable." I do have a few other 25% answers, but I'll explain them below.
Most of these items are, of course, immoral. I'm a little iffy on stem cell research, but that's mostly because I know that they use aborted fetuses. If it wasn't, I'd be a little more accommodating of it as a useful use of a resource to—in theory—save lives. I'm also a little iffy on suicide, because I believe that most people who get to that point are not well enough emotionally to make a moral choice. Not being capable of making a moral choice, it can't be immoral. If that makes sense. I guess I'm just a bit sympathetic to people who get to the point where they feel like suicide is a rational answer to their situation; they need to have had help before hand, but once you get there, they have no more true agency to make a moral choice than a child does.
Sex between teenagers assumes unmarried teenagers. It is possible for teenagers to be married, and wasn't even uncommon through most of our society, but once married, they are effectively adults.
I don't think divorce is necessarily a moral question either, or rather, functionally it often is a moral decision, but at the same time, I recognize that there are situations where it is not immoral to get a divorce because the situation has just become untenable between two people. I'm more wary of being unrighteously judgmental of someone who's been divorced than I am of the concept of divorce itself, although I recognize that a large number of divorces, and probably even the majority, are not moral divorces, they are selfish ones.
I don't know why animal cloning would be immoral, although I guess I can recognize that it could be uncontrolled or unregulated to the point of being an affront to moral society, so I gave it a 75%. Polygamy is also an interesting one. Obviously, Christians recognize the polygamous nature of the patriarchs, and that they were ordained of God, yet we don't practice it here in our culture. But that's more of a cultural thing than an absolute. That said, hedonistic polyamorous relationships are not what God had in mind either, which is what we're more likely to see in our society. I wasn't quite sure what to give that one. I can see a situation where in the future, after the hard times that will be our inheritance have passed, that there might be a time in which polygamous relationships are necessary and even commanded of God. And I've long thought that there would be more women than men in Heaven anyway. In the church, women outnumber men 3:2, and 50% of our women are unmarried in the temple. Polygamy will probably be the only solution, unless eligible bachelors literally start falling out of the sky.
Gambling is just straight up I don't believe it should be outlawed necessarily, because that's beyond the scope of the righteous dominion of anyone to infringe to that degree on another's agency and freedom. And friendly low stakes poker games just for fun, or making bets and deals between friends isn't necessarily immoral either. I got a free dinner in 2016 because I bet a friend of mine on the election results. Birth control I think is mostly fine, although there are some types of it that are morally iffy, like morning after pills. I also am a little wary of the use of birth control giving the impression of a free pass for fornication or adultery.
The last three are not immoral at all, and only liberals with their bizarre, inverted morality tend to think that they are. I do believe that the death penalty should be used very sparingly and judiciously, but every righteous civilization in the history of the world recognized it.
Anyway, as I said, by their fruits shall ye know them. Liberalism is of Satan. There are other lines of evidence that further that statement, but this data right here is conclusive enough. The sad thing is how much liberalism has been enshrined in our culture now, due to the abject failure of conservativism to stop it, to the point where people who call themselves conservatives are much more permissive and even accepting of wickedness and evil than they should be.
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