Maybe the Tories need to look at the composition of their focus groups. A study of 24 countries found that the UK was in the top 4 in considering homosexuality, abortion, euthanasia, suicide and casual sex to be acceptable. Only on the death penalty did we end up mid-table with 55% considering it to be acceptable or potentially acceptable. I guess this is down to mainly older generations and the right wing press. Interestingly Russia, Germany, Indonesia and Nigeria were more opposed to the DP than the UK.
An analysis of the report shows that it reflects a changing society. Homosexuality is seen as acceptable by 65% and divorce by 63% and abortion by 47% (USA stat is less than half that of UK). That also does not mean that the remainder were against it – I will research tis figure. Yet again we seem to have more in common with Europe than America.