Survey Finds Enormous Support for
Constitutional Marriage Amendment
ACLU considered a threat to America by
100% of those surveyed
By John Aman
An overwhelming 94 percent of those answering a recent Coral Ridge Ministries survey support passage of a federal marriage amendment to limit marriage to a
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man and a woman. The
National Morality Poll, answered in July by more than 24,000 people,
found that 99 percent of respondents think that same-sex marriage will
hurt the institution of the family and American society as a whole.
Some 97 percent are opposed to giving homosexual couples “the same rights
as heterosexual couples.”
“We live in an age of grotesque moral disorientation,” said Dr.
D. James Kennedy, President of Coral Ridge Ministries and Senior Minister
of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. “Ours is a time when activist courts
are imposing an extreme makeover on marriage, while Congress struggles
to decide if the most fundamental unit of society is worthy of constitutional
protection. These poll results highlight the increasingly uncommon good
sense of pro-family men and women who recognize that marriage is not
malleable, that when we seek to remake it, we break it -- an outcome
already observed in the nations of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.”
Complete results from the 18-question survey are being sent to
federal officials and the national media. The informal poll is designed
to offer Washington policymakers and journalists a rough gauge of pro-family
evangelical opinion on key moral issues. It was sent to those who financially
support Coral Ridge Ministries, a Christian broadcasting organization,
which reaches some three million people weekly on radio and television. “Although, not a scientific poll,” Kennedy wrote members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and President Bush, “the National |
 D. James Kennedy |
Morality Poll calls the attention
of elected officials and influential media to the concerns and opinions of
Christian conservatives. I hope you will bear their views in mind in your
public policy deliberations.”
The National Morality Poll also found that responders:
