Americans turned socially more liberal on virtually everything except cheating on marriage, according to a new survey.
Way down at the bottom of Gallup’s list is extramarital affairs, and just 9 percent believe that it is morally acceptable.
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That is lower than suicide, 18 percent, polygamy, 17 percent, and porn, 36 percent.
What’s more support for doctor-assisted suicide has hit a new high, at 57 percent, said Gallup.
And the one social practice virtually everybody — 91 percent — agree is morally acceptable is birth control.
Said Gallup, “Americans continue to express an increasingly liberal outlook on what is morally acceptable, as their views on 10 of 19 moral issues that Gallup measures are the most left-leaning or permissive they have been to date. The percentages of U.S. adults who believe birth control, divorce, sex between unmarried people, gay or lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage, doctor-assisted suicide, pornography and polygamy are morally acceptable practices have tied record highs or set new ones this year. At the same time, record lows say the death penalty and medical testing on animals are morally acceptable.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
