Week One
Pewresearch.com: What's morally acceptable?

"Pakistan is consistent in its views of premarital sex and alcohol usage – 94% say both are morally unacceptable."

Was anyone else surprised by this? That number seems unusually high. I obviously don't know the entire population of Pakistan but I have a fair number of Muslim friends from Karachi that I'm pretty positive don't feel this way, considering especially they keep it Halal so no alcohol. Will smoke them some weed, but, like, no alcohol. Huh. Perhaps they are the 6%.

But perhaps more surprising to me was that #5 warranted its own number AND bolding of the typeface. LOL.


Finally, this sorta surprised me, too.
"...Meanwhile, less than four-in-ten Americans are strongly opposed to homosexuality (37% unacceptable)..."

I thought we were closer to 50/50 on that number, with unacceptability being slightly on the lower side of 50. 

I think we saw in the last election year that we were pretty cool with gay marriage and weed, and we seemed to become even MORE cool with it in the years between then and now. I think we saw this in a lot of different ways, like Dallas - even DALLAS - lighting up downtown in rainbow lights for solidarity, we saw it in people changing their Facebook profile pics to indicate they supported equality, etc. -- ways you can't blame the stupid liberal media for -- so it surprises me that Marco Rubio's threats to "fix SCOTUS's ruling on gay marriage" hasn't ruffled more feathers if the numbers are really THAT distant from each other. 

Rubio's still threatening to fill SCOTUS with Justices that will overturn the ruling, and I believe in this election year he DOES have the power to do that, so I think that's a legitimate threat. And Rubio's the candidate I think that a lot of people are looking to as the one most likely to win the ticket if The Donald doesn't win for comedic value alone first (Cruz is slightly ahead of Rubio, I believe, but I just don't think that's going to last long. People seem to really like Rubio.).

I guess I'm just surprised that that hasn't gotten more attention or bothered more people with that being the statistic. 

(Oh and next week I'll be using one post for all my reading responses - did NOT think through that clearly, sorry guys.)