Left-right disagreement over whether people are “born gay” is both a cause and consequence of polarized gay rights attitudes
Despite the recent rise of same-sex marriage and other gay rights, a substantial number of social conservatives in the US still believe that homosexuality is either a choice or a result of a person’s upbringing, or both. In new research, Liz Suhay examines how attitudes towards whether homosexuality is innate have evolved, finding that over the past thirty years […]
Newspaper-based bloggers and commenters are far less polarized and more civil than their independently-based counterparts
Newspaper-based bloggers and commenters are far less polarized and more civil than their independently-based counterparts
Independently hosted political blogs have been with us for more than a decade, and have become forums for commentary and discussion with a variety of styles and formality. These have more recently been joined by newspaper based blogs such as at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. But how does commentary and discussion differ between these […]