Phony polls, false witnesses, faulty science doom Religious Right
The Religious Right is losing the fight over cultural issues in America because it is impossible to stand on a platform whose flimsy foundation is based on the four pillars of bigotry, discrimination, homophobia and lies.
Take the hysteria over the past week in Albany, N.Y., as the New York Senate tries to take up a bill that would legalize marriage equality in the Empire State.
Numerous polls taken this year show that New Yorkers favor same-sex marriage by about 60%.
Yet a poll released Tuesday by QEV Analytics reports that 57% of New Yorkers oppose same-sex marriage. The news was trumpeted by the Religious Right and known hate groups such as the American Family Association, Concerned Woman for America, Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
At first glance, the latest poll seems to show an astonishing change of opinion by New Yorkers just as the Senate prepares to vote on marriage equality.
But scratch the surface and you find that the poll was commissioned by NOM. Duh! And QEV Analytics is hardly an independent public opinion polling company; many of its polls were conducted on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church to get results that back up the Church’s point of view on social issues. Can you say, propaganda?
Furthermore, the poll talks about “302 randomly selected voters,” yet almost 70% of those polled were 50 or older, the very age group most likely to be against marriage equality. Even that calls into question the poll’s impartiality and fairness.