A recent poll shows a huge shift in American attitudes toward gay marriage, from a 32 percent approval in 2004 to 53 percent today. I am one of those people who changed their minds.

This is a long article making several points, the most critical of which is not made until the very end, so I hope you will read it all the way through. Thanks, Mal

I recently saw an article with the title, "Have all of you Progressive-Socialist-Democrats finally gotten the message?" The author then quotes someone making a case against social entitlements. Someone else left the following comment...

...merely because one worked hard all their life does NOT mean that, somehow, they become entitled to a damn thing...

I replied to that comment, and I feel my reply expresses my Progressive-Socialist-Democrat viewpoint pretty well. Well enough in fact, to use that comment to make a point in this article. Here is what I said, as a reply to the preceding comment and to the article as a whole...

Poll Americans' support for the moral acceptability of gay and lesbian relations crossed the symbolic 50% threshold in 2010. At the same time, the percentage calling these relations "morally wrong" dropped to 43%, the lowest in Gallup's decade-long trend.