From Infidel753:
One of the tools for evaluating American society’s acceptance of gay people is GLAAD’s “Accelerating Acceptance” report, an annual survey which tests public attitudes across a range of issues. The report’s results have been in line with other opinion surveys in showing a steady growth in acceptance year by year — until the latest one, just released, which shows a decrease in the percentage of Americans with broadly accepting views, from 53% last year to 49% now.
It’s conceivable that this might be just a statistical fluke — 4% isn’t a very big change — but that’s probably not the case, because other results are in line with the change. The percentage of those who say they would be uncomfortable at discovering a family member is gay rose 3%, the proportion of gay people reporting encounters with discrimination is up 11%, etc. These figures represent something real.
Confronted with evidence of inexorable social progress, the enemy likes to use the metaphor of the pendulum — claiming that while attitudes may move in one direction for a while, they inevitably “swing back” to the more conservative position, and the midpoint of the swings doesn’t really move. However, there’s no evidence that changes in public attitudes on social issues really work like that.