50% in poll back SJC ruling on gay marriage

The Boston Globe ^ | 11/23/2003 | Frank Phillips and Rick Klein

[HostileTerritory]

Massachusetts residents, by a solid margin, said they supported the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark decision legalizing gay marriage, according to a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll.

The poll of 400 people, the first survey of Bay State residents since the court's historic ruling, indicated that 50 percent agreed with the justices' decision, and 38 percent opposed it. Eleven percent expressed no opinion.

The poll also indicated that a majority opposed efforts by the Legislature, Governor Mitt Romney, and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly to block same-sex marriages and allow civil unions instead.

A majority, 53 percent, also opposed a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriages by defining marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Thirty-six percent supported the amendment.

[HostileTerritory]

Uh-oh.

[Rightone]

The most lib-filled state in the union? No surprise here.

[HostileTerritory]

California, which is even more full of libs than we are, voted down gay marriage 2-1 when they had a chance. I'm sorry, but I live here, and this is a rather nasty surprise. I hope to see some other polls soon to show if this is an outlier or not.

[nothingnew]

Who conducted the poll, Fudgiepiac College?

FMCDH

[LarryM]

Perhaps the Globe should disclose that it only polled in gay bathhouses!

[HostileTerritory]

Amendment now PING

[truthandjustice1]

I live in Mass and I can assure you this Globe poll is bogus. The homo activists have stopped the peoples will in Mass through the courts and Globe propaganda.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I hope to see some other polls soon to show if this is an outlier or not.

This is the Boston Globe. Part of the New York Times conglomerate that has tremendous resources and connections to all the elite groups. It has practically sponsored this decision. They were prepared months in advance (I wager) with the most careful of poll question wordings to skew the result they were ready to publish.

If there was any opposition elite that had any force, we would have been prepared to conduct a poll skewing in the opposite direction.

Also, remember this is a bit like comparing Gore's popular vote victory with Bush's red state dominance. A majority of people in the majority of Massachusetts districts would vote gay marriage down in and up and down vote.

[cloud8]

"Who conducted the poll, Fudgiepiac College?"

No, it was a "Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll"... "conducted by KRC Communications Research of Newton." Get a load of this (from the Boston.com article):

"Bill Luff, 32, who responded to the poll, said he agreed with the court that gays and lesbians have a right to marry. He said the Legislature and governor should concentrate on easing the way for same-sex couples to wed."

What kind of legitimate pollster releases the name of a respondent to the press? What sort of newspaper fails to balance such a statement with an opposing point of view, unless is is totally biased? Trust me, the "poll" was rigged.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

No problem. Let all the homosexuals who want to marry move to Massachewsits.

[Andy'smom]

The Globe has quite a few gay reporters and Howie Carr has said that there is more than one "confirmed bachelor" on their
editorial board.

[Radix]

I don't believe any of these polls for a second. Of course, I have an attitude about all polls.

Have you seen the Howie Carr column today?

http://www.bostonherald.com/premium/columnists.bg?pubid=columnists&vers=free&articleid=carr11232003

He raises some interesting questions. Personaly, I think that Carr is a punk, but he does make his points now and then. What about those blood tests for homosexual men? Ha, that will likely be one the next laws that the courts will go after. We can't have the rate of Syphillis among gay men becoming public knowledge now can we? Much more is at stake here then the Court has considered, much more.

[randog]

I wonder how the good citizens of Massachusetts would feel about legalizing, say, polygamous marriages? Or lowering the age of consent to.......11, 12 years old. Or legalizing beastiality. And of the good citizens of Massachusetts that approve of gay marriage and dissaprove of any other deviant arrangement, I would like to ask one simple question: Why?

[Dane]

The poll of 400 people,

Sheesh 400 people from where? Harvard yard? They give no specifics.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Why?

Because it is better to have a public fellatio contest in front of City Hall than give a quarter of an inch to right wing nazi krischun ignorant swine who want to send all Queers to concentration camps.

Where have you *BEEN* these last ten years?

[RobFromGa]

So that means about 12% of normal Americans support it.

The People's Republic of Taxxachusetts is not an indicator of anything except the danger of living too close to the Korrupt Kennedy Klan(tm).

It has become the new petri dish for liberal experimentation now that the previous host organism in Kalifornia is on life support and is in the process of being operated on by Dr Arnold.