US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High: 64% of Americans now say same-sex marriage should be legal

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: GALLUP

URL: http://www.gallup.com/poll/210566/support-gay-marriage-edges-new-high.aspx

by Justin McCarthy

* 64% of Americans say same-sex marriage should be legal

* For the first time, majority of Protestants support gay marriage

* Support for same-sex relations has also climbed, now at 72%

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid. Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues the generally steady rise since Gallup's trend began in 1996.



The latest update, from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll conducted May 3-7, comes nearly two years after the Supreme Court ruled that states could not prohibit same-sex marriage.

Since then, debates about same-sex marriage have faded somewhat from public discourse as LGBT rights advocates have focused on other issues, such as transgender bathroom access. But despite the 2015 ruling from the nation's highest court, legal and legislative attempts to protect or challenge same-sex marriage rights continue to bubble up in some states.

Americans' support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since Gallup first polled on the issue in 1996, when 27% said it should be recognized as valid by the law. In 2004 -- weeks before gay weddings took place in Massachusetts after it became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage -- less than half of Americans (42%) felt such unions should be legally valid. Majority support for gay marriage would not come until May 2011, about a month before New York became the sixth state to legalize it. Since then, support for legal same-sex marriage has steadily climbed, with consistent majorities in favor of it since late 2012.

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[Sighlass]

These pollsters start out by asking a bunch of gay questions that most conservatives hang up upon then pop the question later if you support gay marriage. By the end only the SJW are left to ask.

I got a call the other day about local politics, a computer voice starts asking political questions and I have no idea who did the call or who is recording it. I hang up because I don't care to answer personal questions that I don't know who is recording. I don't want my name given to some democrat group with a vow of vengeance. I am a political creature and I understand just how low some of these people are. Thus people like me are hardly ever represented in phone surveys.

Question for forum members... Do you bother with pollsters or not? 

[INVAR]

And a majority of the population in America supports Communism and Socialism too. 

Yay!  Let's all jump on the bandwagon because if a majority support those things too - then they must be good and more better than the evil origins of the country!

This generation will be noted in history alongside the definition of national suicide, both politically and culturally.