This poll shows we are moving back to the center, ever so slightly. Both sides have good and bad numbers depending on your ideology. You decide. The article is worth reading and contains graphics as well. All IMO.
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/10/new-poll-americans-are-pushing-back-on-progressive-moral-norms-n4953798
Well, here’s something kind of interesting. The moral acceptability of the good people of the United States appears to be changing... for the better. We’re actually becoming more conservative and rejecting several progressive ideas, if this new poll from Gallup is to be believed.
Each year, since 2001, Gallup tracks Americans’ views of the moral acceptability of various social behaviors. They are:
- Birth control
- Divorce
- Sex between unmarried man and woman
- Gay or lesbian relations
- Medical research using stem cells from human embryos
- Having a baby outside of marriage
- Gambling
- Buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur
- The death penalty
- Abortion
- Doctor-assisted suicide
- Medical testing on animals
- Changing one’s gender
- Sex between teenagers
- Pornography
- Cloning animals
- Suicide
- Polygamy
- Cloning humans
- Extramarital affair
Those polled are asked: “Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong.” They can respond with “morally acceptable” or “morally wrong,” or say they have no opinion or it depends on the situation.
According to Gallup, “five of the 20 behaviors...have fallen significantly since last year, with each dropping between six and nine percentage points.”
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Those behaviors include using birth control (83%), having a baby outside of marriage (58%), gambling (57%), sex between teenagers (35%) and cloning animals (27%). Birth control, gambling and cloning animals have all hit record lows this year after holding relatively steady throughout most of the trend.Despite those numbers, the five most morally acceptable items on the list, according to those who responded, are birth control, divorce, sex between an unmarried man and woman, gay and lesbian relationships, and medical research using stem cells from human embryos.
The five least morally acceptable items on the list were extramarital affairs, cloning humans, polygamy, suicide, and cloning animals.
Items like abortion, medical testing on animals, and doctor-assisted suicide were pretty evenly split.