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Values - Gallup shows The Heartbeat of the Family growing weaker
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A Gallup poll confirms what many of us have suspected, American culture is shifting for the worse. Values are eroding and what is considered "okay" is becoming increasingly libertine and amoral.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
6/4/2014 (1 decade ago)
Published in Marriage & Family
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The results of the annual "Values and Beliefs Survey" from the Gallup organization are in and the comparisons to 2001 show a fundamental shift between what is acceptable and what is not to most Americans.
The following list of statistics tells a story. It is a tragic story of the erosion of traditional family-based values. It is a story with a bleak ending that is yet to come. Our nation will need a lot of prayers and action to reverse this trend. The cancer has spread though the fabric of our nation.
This is what your neighbors think about:
Sex between an unmarried man and woman
2001: 53%
2014: 66%
Divorce
2001: 59%
2014: 69%
Having a baby outside of marriage
2001: 45%
2014: 58%
Gay or lesbian relations
2001: 40%
2014: 58%
Medical research using stem cells from human embryos
2001: 52%
2014: 65%
Pornography
2001: 30%
2014: 33%
Suicide
2001: 13%
2014: 19%
Cloning Humans
2001: 7%
2014: 13%
If we have any hope amid this despair, it is in Christ Jesus. We hope you will join us in prayer.
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