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Poll: Over Sixty Percent Of Americans Support Gay Marriage

Wedding_cake_with_pillar_supports,_2009There is good news for those of us who support same-sex marriage (as well as an indication in the remarkable turnaround in public attitude in a relatively short time). According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 6 out of 10 Americans now support same-sex marriage and believe that states should not be allowed to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. That is a record showing for same-sex marriage.

The poll was clearly timed for oral arguments next week on whether state restrictions on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. I believe that there is likely a fifth vote with Justice Anthony Kennedy to support a ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. Indeed, it will be interesting to watch Chief Justice John Roberts on this issue. Roberts has shown a strong institutional sensitivity and many be the most likely of the remaining justices to feel the pull of history on the issue.

Not surprisingly, the greatest gains have been seen in those under age 30 where support has grown since 2005 from 57 percent to 78 percent. However, even among the historically least supportive group (those 65 and over) support is now at 46 percent (from just 18 percent).

Republicans still oppose at a rate of 6 to 10, however. This creates an interesting dynamic for the Republican primary where some candidates have already shown movement toward greater acceptance. The trend appears in that direction. Moreover, GOP candidates face the classic dilemma of fighting to secure the nomination from the most conservative members of the party while being able to run nationally to appeal to independents and democrats. The social agenda of conservative Republicans has never appealed to as much to independents and libertarians in the general election.

Source: Washington Post

325 thoughts on “Poll: Over Sixty Percent Of Americans Support Gay Marriage”

  1. Most of the polls are propaganda with results dependent on the sample of people chosen to most likely give the desired outcome. Don’t believe everything you hear.

  2. I just erased four paragraphs that were great. Some would have loved them. Others would accuse me of belittling their family.

  4. Annie
    Steve King is trying to unsettle the tripartite form of checks and balances our Founders established by making it illegal for Federal Judiciary to rule on “State Rights” issues.

    Imagine this move during the Loving V Virginia case…
    Big-its

  6. Annie
    The same things I hear from so called educated, civilized, advanced western people, are the ones I hear from uneducated, uncivilized, backward people from the middle east… goes to show that people are the same everywhere

  11. @Ingannie

    I suspect we will have more rupture, than rapture from all the celebratory sodomy. Which, the medical results of, you can read at the link. It is sooo icky gross that I do not feel comfortable posting it here.

    http://www.homosexinfo.org/Sexuality/AnalEroticism

    I am going now to wash out my eyes with soap. Oh, it is going to burn, but I have to clean them after reading that! Ewwww! Yuck!!!

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  12. Well Bam Bam, God would have to bless me first, I’m a bit beyond my childbearing years. Po, I’m ready baby!😍

    1. I. Annie

      Sarah, from the Bible, allegedly said the same thing when she was going to give birth. She thought that she was far too old to bear a child. Her first reaction was to laugh, which, it is claimed, triggered her to name her son Isaac, which is similar to the word for laugh or laughter.

      Either that or name your first child bam bam. Lol!

  14. Wonder if the spaceship has room for I. Annie and po. They could reproduce in space.

  15. How long , Pogo? Nambla has been around for along time, and the only ones to link it with homosexuality are the homophobes…just as they do with bestiality…and with marrying inanimate objects…
    It is all based on a unhealthy fascination with all things anal. Homophobes’ imagining of what homosexuals do got a strong hold on them.

  18. @Max-1

    I know that the LGBTQ community does not currently support NAMBLA. But I suspect that it eventually will. Why does the little “q” get added to LGBT sometimes??? Queer, from wiki:

    Queer has become the preferred term to describe certain radical academic disciplines and is gaining use as a descriptor of non-normative[note 1] (i.e. anti-heteronormativity and anti-homonormativity) identities and politics.[1] Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of intersectionality within the mainstream LGBT movement.

    Beginning in the late-1980s, the label queer began to be reclaimed from its pejorative use as a neutral or positive self-identifier by LGBT people.[1] An early example of this usage by the LGBT community was by an organisation called Queer Nation, which was formed in March 1990 and circulated an anonymous flier at the New York Gay Pride Parade in June 1990 titled “Queers Read This”.[7] The flier included a passage explaining their adoption of the label queer:

    “ Ah, do we really have to use that word? It’s trouble. Every gay person has his or her own take on it. For some it means strange and eccentric and kind of mysterious… And for others “queer” conjures up those awful memories of adolescent suffering… Well, yes, “gay” is great. It has its place. But when a lot of lesbians and gay men wake up in the morning we feel angry and disgusted, not gay. So we’ve chosen to call ourselves queer. Using “queer” is a way of reminding us how we are perceived by the rest of the world. ”

    Queer people, particularly queer people of color, began to reclaim queer in response to a perceived shift in the gay community toward liberal conservatism, catalyzed by Andrew Sullivan’s 1989 piece in The New Republic, titled Here Comes the Groom: The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage.[8] The queer movement rejected causes viewed as assimilationist, such as marriage, military inclusion and adoption.[9]

    Sooo, you are already seeing that old side of homosexuality rearing its little head. What was that pejorative term above in the NAMBLA quote??? Anti-assimilationist. . .Hmmm, see that word bolded in the wiki blurb???

    This is my GUESS as to where things go after the gay-marriage battle is won, and then flops from the lack of interest. There, and the anti-heteronormative arena.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  19. Squeeky
    LGBT community does not support NAMBLA.
    As much as your agenda buys into it, NAMBLA is not an LGBT supported group. That’s like asserting that you’re a KKK member and ALL straight white folk ARE KKK.

    You paint with a broad big it brush for one reason… Animus.

  20. “But to think that a criminal activity that involves a victim will become legalized in our society is fear mongering and ridiculous. The thing you seem to keep missing is the word “consensual”.

    No, that’s not even near the crux of the problem.

    Neither concept of victim nor consent had anything to do with why gay behavior used to be illegal. It was then considered a crime against nature itself.

    Modern leftism redefined words to make those words the defining issues.

    And as Squeeky posits, correctly I fear, the left will simply redefine consent and age of consent and pedophile to meaninglessness.
    ,
    Do you not see that the rash of teacher pedophile behavior in grade schools and high schools (largely by women) is just the first foray into normalizing it?

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