New Poll: Americans Show Decreasing Support for Gay Marriage [+video]

It’s been over three weeks since the Supreme Court redefined marriage, nullified multiple portions of the Constitution, and implicitly blessed the budding pagan inquisition against religious liberty. Yet, the GOP-controlled Congress has done absolutely nothing – not even on a committee level – to protect religious liberty and fight back against judicial tyranny.

If the American people actually had a party that cared about the Founding principles, the fact that some states are violating the religious liberty and private property rights of Christian business owners would be enough to inspire immediate action at a federal level. Sadly, no such party exists.

But don’t Republicans at least read the polling data?

Even though the push for homosexual marriage has been as one-sided a battle as any transformational change in recent memory – with no organized GOP opposition against it – the Left has failed to move the needle one inch. In fact, they have lost ground since the Court’s ruling.

According to a new AP-GfK Poll, just 42% support homosexual marriage – down from 48% at the beginning of the year. What’s more, just 39% approve of the court’s decision. And by a slim plurality – 49%-47% – respondents believe that local officials with religious objections to this radical concept should be exempt from issuing marriage licenses. This is the gist of what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told county clerks in his state, yet most Republicans nationally have run away from him like the plague.

Most importantly, as it relates to religious freedom, 59% believe that private businesses should be able to refuse services that violate their religious beliefs and practices. And when asked about which ideal should take priority when in conflict, 56% of respondents chose religious liberty while 39% chose “gay rights.”

The AP poll sampled “all adults,” not likely voters, meaning that the views of the electorate are probably even more favorable to the side of liberty than the numbers reflect in the poll. If this poll portends the beginning of a trend, it appears that more and more people are understanding that “you will be made to care” about the truculent and often undemocratic tactics of the professional homosexual and sexual identity movements.

This is yet one more example of how broken the political barometer of the GOP is when it comes to gauging the pulse of the public on a particular issue. In the private confines of establishment GOP circles, they view the issue of religious liberty as a colossal loser with the electorate. Imagine if Republicans and affiliated organizations would run a relentless barrage of ads in critical states highlighting the riveting messaging of the Heritage Foundation videos on the victims of the secular inquisition? The Klein bakery and the Gifford family farm? Imagine how the numbers would look if we actually fought back?

Appallingly, not only have Republicans refused to bring any bill to the floor protecting religious liberty, Senate GOP leadership gave Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) a floor vote on his anti-religious-liberty amendment last week to the education bill. Franken’s amendment would have created a new federally-recognized protected status for students claiming to be homosexual or transgendered. The federal government would be empowered to cut off funds to schools that, in the view of federal bureaucrats, discriminate against those students. The Attorney General would also receive power to bring civil actions against individual schools for such violations.

The Franken amendment failed to garner 60 votes, but every Democrat and six Republicans voted for it. Why would Republicans even allow a vote on something this radical, especially before conducting a single vote to protect religious liberty?

Although they have no regard for our most foundational values expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, don’t they at least pay attention to their coveted polling data?

Then again, if public opinion ever factored into their decisions, they would have voted to cut off funding to sanctuary cities and defunded Obama’s Iran negotiations long ago. Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to do the right thing on a single issue, irrespective of public opinion. (Posted with permission of the author, “New Poll: Americans Show Decreasing Support for Gay Marriage”, originally appeared HERE)

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