"...Your 'Canary in the Coal Mine' metaphor is being misinterpreted..."
The longer the pro-Gay side of the aisle continues to delude itself about the Canary, the more time the other side of the aisle has, to set serious countermeasures into motion without being taken seriously, and without serious opposition. I'm sure that's fine by them.
"...The problem the anti-gay movement faces is that is about to become an endangered species. The demographic shift will continue to work against them as more and more people adopt a realistic approach to treating gays as equal members of society."
I believe that the pro-Gay side of the aisle puts far too much trust in poll-based trend perceptions - a state of affairs which - like the Canary - is probably just fine with most folks workin' the other side of the aisle - makes the job of deploying countermeasures easier.
It's one thing for the latest generation of seemingly androgynous metrosexual chaff to tell a pollster or an online poll that they support Gay Rights...
It's quite another when the males and females of that nature begin to raise children of their own and start thinking: God, I don't want that shit around my kids - or, simply, when they find God, as they begin to put on a few more years, and the thought hits them, that such perversity might go against both God and Nature, after all.
There's nothing new under the sun, and you cannot legitimize the sexual behaviors and related lifestyle of 3% of the population, and sustain that legitimacy, when so many oppose it.
You believe you have time on your side.
I believe that the more time passes, the more of the present 'loose' and 'tolerant' folk amongst younger generations will adopt more Conservative views.
There's an old maxim, apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill, which goes:
"
He who is not a Liberal in his youth has no heart. He who is not a Conservative in his maturity has no brains." = or some-such thing... you get the idea.
People's attitudes do, indeed, change, with the passage of time; generally becoming more Conservative in nature; with respect to social mores, most frequently, in addition to changes in political perspective.
But, neither of us has a crystal ball; merely personal speculation based upon some common-sense conclusions that each of us believes to be operating from as a point of departure.
We are irreconcilable in this matter, but that's not the end of the world, nor this conflict, which is likely to rage for many years after this thread (and board) has seen its last post.
