GALLUP: POLYGAMY, SUICIDE, CLONING MORE POPULAR

Adultery remains least morally acceptable to Americans

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(GALLUP) WASHINGTON, D.C. — While a select few actions remain deeply taboo for much of the country, there has been an increasing shift to moral acceptability for some of these over time. Such actions include suicide (which 19% of Americans call “morally acceptable”), polygamy (16%) and cloning humans (15%). On the other hand, “married men and women having an affair” has remained at the bottom of a list of 19 moral behaviors Gallup has measured, with only 8% considering it morally acceptable.

These results come from the May 6-10 Gallup Values and Beliefs poll. Since 2001, this annual poll has gauged the nation’s moral sensibilities across numerous behaviors or social issues, including divisive or sensitive topics such as having children out of wedlock, premarital sex, gay or lesbian relations and abortion. Many of the 19 topics rated this year are now judged as morally acceptable by record or near-record percentages of U.S. adults, in tandem with a rising wave of social liberalism.

To some extent, these changing social mores have affected even behaviors that a vast majority of the country routinely judges as “morally wrong.” Since 2003, the proportion of U.S. adults saying polygamy is morally acceptable has increased by nine percentage points. Since 2001, cloning humans has seen an increase of eight points; and suicide, a six-point gain. Still, each of these items retains its essence of moral repugnancy in the nation’s social consciousness, as resounding majorities describe each of these behaviors as morally wrong.

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My comments: God, alone, defines Morality in His Word. With man everything is Relative and Situational.