{"id":11293,"date":"2007-06-29T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11293.html"},"modified":"2007-06-29T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:00:26","slug":"dobsons-unique-spin-on-the-youth-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dobsons-unique-spin-on-the-youth-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobson’s unique spin on the youth vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Dobson’s Focus on the Family issued an alert<\/a> to its membership yesterday bragging about the latest New York Times poll<\/a>, which, the group said, showed that “America’s young people continue to track conservative” on social issues. It took some breathtaking spin to reach this conclusion.<\/p>\n

The survey collected opinions of 17- to 29-year-olds. Sixty-two percent said abortion should be outlawed or restricted. Danielle Huntley, a student at Boston College Law School and president of Students for Life of America, said she’s proud her peers are not buying into liberal rhetoric.<\/p>\n

“It illustrates that my generation realizes that they are survivors of Roe,” she said. “Each of us born after 1973 could have been legally aborted by our parents.”<\/p>\n

Tom Robins of the College Republican National Committee told Family News in Focus the opposition to abortion can be attributed to young people’s level of understanding. “Our generation has seen the effects of that,” he said. “They understand that abortion on demand is not a healthy choice for America.” <\/p>\n

Fifty-four percent of young adults expressed opposition to same-sex marriage. Ron Luce with Teen Mania said the challenge is to make sure their opinions are founded in biblical truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, now let’s look at what the poll actually<\/em> said<\/a>:
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\n* On abortion: A combined 75% of voters under 30 want abortion rights to be legal.<\/p>\n

* On gay rights: 44% said they believed that same-sex couples should be permitted to get married, and an additional 24% support civil unions, for a combined 68% who support some legal recognition for gay relationships.<\/p>\n

* On ideology: 28% of young voters described themselves as liberal (compared with 20% of the nation at large), while 27% called themselves conservative (compared with 32% of the general public).<\/p>\n

Dobson’s group wants its members to believe these<\/i> results show a young generation that “tracks conservative”? Seriously?<\/p>\n

Isn’t there some kind of commandment against bearing false witness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Dobson’s Focus on the Family issued an alert to its membership yesterday bragging about the latest New York Times poll, which, the group said, showed that “America’s young people continue to track conservative” on social issues. It took some breathtaking spin to reach this conclusion. The survey collected opinions of 17- to 29-year-olds. Sixty-two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}