Month: November 2004

A May 2004 Gallup poll asked Americans their opinion of the morality of a number of social issues. According to that poll, 60 percent found it morally acceptable for an unmarried man and woman to have consensual sex. However, only 49 percent found it morally acceptable to have a baby outside marriage. And to confuse things further, just 40 percent found it morally acceptable to have an abortion. Wow. These statistics present quite a conundrum. Here we have a majority of people believing unmarried sex is OK, but having a baby out of wedlock isn’t. Yet obtaining an abortion is even less acceptable. So what would these people have us do? Enter into a marriage for the sake of a child because… …because what? Here’s where the logic ceases to exist for me. How can the same people approve of the act that creates a child if they don’t approve of the existence of that child, and approve even less of the...