Legal Commentary

With Florida's Proposition 2,  California's Proposition 8, and Arizona's Proposition 102, my attention was caught by some recent polling data about young evangelicals' position on the subject.  According to this study commissioned by Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, 26% of young white evangelical Christians support same-sex marriage, and 58% of them support either civil unions or same-sex marriage.   I was a little surprised by how high those numbers were.  Young evangelicals were also noticeably different from older ones in their support of the Republican party -- they were less likely to favor McCain, more likely to have negative impressions of Palin, and more likely to be disenchanted with Bush.  But there was one area covered by the poll where they were solidly in line with older evangelicals -- abortion.