America's culture wars aren't new -- and don't have predictable...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Abortion always terminates a human life.
47% : Same-sex marriage doesn't, and it even seems to have a conservatizing effect on many participants, just as its early advocates Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch predicted.
45% : The nature of the human organism may explain why opinion on abortion has scarcely changed since the 1970s (majorities oppose criminalization but favor many limitations), whereas opinions on same-sex marriage have been almost totally transformed (from 3-to-1 opposition in the 1990s to 3-to-1 support today).
40% : Capital punishment, abolished in Michigan in 1855, remains on the books in 27 states but is seldom used.
38% : (No president has opposed capital punishment.)
37% : In the pre-Civil War republic, New England and upstate New York's "burned-over district" seethed with movements demanding the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, prohibition of alcohol and an end to capital punishment.
35% : Those successes have been overshadowed periodically by claims (by militants in the 1970s and Black Lives Matter advocates in the 2020s) that things are just as bad as ever -- that being required to show ID before voting is as bad as being beaten up or threatened with murder when trying to vote.

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