A new poll questioning Americans about their perceptions of moral values has been conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. The results show that Americans consider hunger, abuse, and the war in Iraq to be much more important as moral issues than gay marriage or even abortion. People actually worry about issues such as hunger and war. Not a lot of people walk around obsessed about whether or not gay people want to enter into lifelong relationships. Americans might be a little more progressive than the media gives us credit for.
Someone should tell the Traditional Values Coalition about this. If you search their site for information on hunger and poverty the stories that come up are mostly about gays and the Ten Commandments. The same results show up on the Republican Party aligned-Institute on Religion and Democracy. Search their site for information on poverty and you'll be given information on gay marriage. You have to wonder if the people involved with these groups skipped out on Sunday school classes that dealt with the Gospels.
Those aren't the issues most Americans are concerned with. Once again, we see the extreme right wing is far removed from the American people and a real values agenda. The TVC and IRD claim to represent a Christian agenda. It is difficult to find evidence of that in their message. We can sleep a little easier tonight knowing the American people see past that hypocrisy and are embracing deeper moral values more in line with the teachings of Jesus than anyone might have imagined.
