Is London’s ‘diversity’ to blame for its ‘unprogressive’ views on homosexuality?

I have been most interested in recent posts here by Alex Massie and Matthew Parris.  Here is a poll which might interest them both.

YouGov recently carried out a survey in the UK which sought primarily to judge public opinions on the issue of posthumous pardons to people convicted of homosexuality. So far so hip, cool and with the beat.

But the poll also asked respondents whether they think in general that homosexuality is ‘morally acceptable’ or ‘morally wrong’.  What do you think the figures were?  Well in most regions of the UK those people who thought homosexuality ‘morally wrong’ sat at around 15 per cent.  About what one might have expected.  But what do you think the figure was in that enlightened beacon of progressive diversity which is our capital?  1 per cent?  2 per cent?

Nope.  In London the number of people who said they thought homosexuality is immoral was almost double (29 per cent) what it was in the rest of the country.

Now why might that be?  Is it because lots of straight Londoners have at some point been to a gay bar in the capital and thought the music too cheesy?  Or is it possible that the ‘diversity’ of our capital city is precisely the cause of this ‘un-progressive’ fact?

Matthew and Alex seem confident that no matter where people come from or in what numbers, given time everyone will become more and more like them. But as that YouGov poll suggests, the mass immigration which this country has seen in recent years may yet lead in quite another direction.