Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey provides a fascinating glimpse into the American public’s views of issues that can be classified under the broad rubric of morality. The survey, conducted each May since 2001, probes Americans’ views about a series of specific issues and behaviors — ranging from cloning humans to polygamy — as well as broad questions about their views of moral values more generally.
One of the important trends measured by the survey over the past two decades is Americans’ increasingly accepting attitudes toward a variety of behaviors relating to fertility and sexual relations — behaviors which were heretofore more likely to be considered taboo or morally frowned upon. CONTINUED
Frank Newport, Gallup
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