By Anna Gugala at College Fix February 10, 2026
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Younger generations are less likely to support homosexuality and more likely to exhibit “anti-gay prejudice,” according to Northwestern University scholars.
Professor Tessa Charlesworth released a preprint study which purports to find lower levels of acceptance of homosexuality in younger generations, even among liberals. She also commented on the results in a recent New York Times essay.
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Another researcher on LGBT issues questioned the premise of the study, calling the New York Times article “ridiculous.”
“They take for granted that ‘gay is good’ and being ’anti-gay is bad,’” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, president of the Ruth Institute, told The Fix via email. “This bias colors their interpretation of the data and the very questions they choose to ask of the data.”
Morse is a trained economist and former research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. She has written several books about sex and family.
Morse highlighted the researchers’ use of the term “moral panic” when it comes to the grooming of kids as an example of biased language.
“I am aware of many people who are extremely concerned about the oversexualized age-inappropriate material many children are being taught,” Morse said. “Framing the issue as ‘moral panic language’ as these authors do, preemptively dismisses people’s genuine concerns before they’re even addressed.”
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