{"id":9143,"date":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/07\/majority-find-homosexuality-morally-acceptable-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","slug":"majority-find-homosexuality-morally-acceptable-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/07\/majority-find-homosexuality-morally-acceptable-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Find Homosexuality &#8220;Morally Acceptable&#8221; For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, U.S., May 2010: A slight majority of Americans view gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, a first since Gallup pollsters started asking about the issue in 2001. In a recent survey of 16 different behaviors or social practices, pollsters found that 52 percent of Americans accept gay or lesbian relations, a steady increase since a form of the question was introduced nine years ago. The percentage of Americans who find it &#8220;morally wrong&#8221; dipped to its lowest point: 43 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Americans were tied, at 46 percent, regarding the morality of doctor-assisted suicide&#8211;a stark contrast to the 77 percent of Americans who believe suicide is morally wrong. And Americans are overwhelmingly agreed on admonishing cheating spouses, with only 6 percent of respondents saying marital infidelity is morally acceptable, according to the poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON, U.S., May 2010: A slight majority of Americans view gay or lesbian relations as morally,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}