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CALIFORNIA: Same-sex marriage poll finds majority approve
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/29/12 | Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Political Writer

Posted on 02/29/2012 9:58:57 AM PST by SmithL

Support for same-sex marriage in California has never been higher, with 59 percent of the state's voters backing the legalization of gay nuptials, according to a new Field Poll.

What's notable is that some of the more significant gains in support came from Catholics, Latinos and older voters - part of the core of support for voter-approved Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.

Republicans and those who identify themselves as conservatives are the only demographic blocs that oppose allowing gays to marry, according to the survey of 1,003 registered voters released today. Overall, 34 percent of the respondents oppose same-sex marriage.

In a separate question, 51 percent of respondents said gays should be allowed to marry - up from 44 percent two years ago. The survey found that 29 percent support civil unions but not marriage and 15 percent favor no legal recognition. Five percent had no opinion.

"It's a wholesale change in public opinion," said Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo, noting that Field has polled on same-sex marriage issues since 1977. "Right now, it is more of a political objection than anything else."

Wary of numbers

But the rise in support was so high in this poll - seven points since the last Field survey on the issue in 2010 - that even some supporters of same-sex marriage are wary.

A September survey of likely voters commissioned by Equality California, which has been at the forefront of the fight for same-sex marriage, also found that 51 percent of Californians support it.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; sanfranciscovalues
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1 posted on 02/29/2012 9:58:58 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Easy to come up with these results when your sample is loaded heavily with respondents from San Francisco.


2 posted on 02/29/2012 10:02:43 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood)
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To: SmithL

So put it on the ballot and pass thru the proper legislative channels.

But stop trying to get judges to overturn the people and legislate from the bench.


3 posted on 02/29/2012 10:04:03 AM PST by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: SmithL

When polled about the future demise of the state, the ever increasing populace of tolerant CA folks would prefer fire & brimstone vs. massive earthquakes and tsunamis.

California, a state and a society in decline.


4 posted on 02/29/2012 10:05:31 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Jagdgewehr

The demographic shift in California is obvious!
Anyone with morals or brains has left the state.


5 posted on 02/29/2012 10:06:37 AM PST by WestwardHo
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To: SmithL

What’s notable is that some of the more significant gains in support came from Catholics...
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What’s notable is that some of the more significant gains in support came from NON-PRACTICING Catholics...


6 posted on 02/29/2012 10:07:42 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SmithL

Propaganda 24/7 to normalize the vile abomination that used to be in the closet and unspeakable in Christian nations.

Sex Ed for decades in the schools and the effect of making “good” handsome people “gay” like in Will and Grace-—and they make the straights evil and bigots (since Archie Bunker)—This has its effect on the worldview when absorbed by children. Goebbels is laughing in his grave.

We have sodomite producers creating the worldview of our children for decades as they were molesting the Corey boys and passing them around in their homosexual orgies. We allowed trash to be promoted as “good”. They are rewriting Judeo/Christian Ethics—and all cultures who adopt moral relativism end up like Germany and Russia and China and Cambodia. There is no “New” ethics-—Read history.

Get your children off of the evil TV which shapes worldview into the pagan, Marxist worldview of the homosexual pedophiles. They want sodomy “good” which it can NEVER be and they want pederasty to be normal like in the muslim countries and Ancient Greece. Read homosexual fantasy-—it is about access to boys.


7 posted on 02/29/2012 10:10:00 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: WestwardHo
Anyone with morals or brains has left the state.

No, there is two or three of us left. I have morals...at the very least.

8 posted on 02/29/2012 10:15:52 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood)
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To: SmithL

Is that poll as accurate as this one was? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022448/posts


9 posted on 02/29/2012 10:17:06 AM PST by mpolito
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To: savagesusie

Well said savagesusie


10 posted on 02/29/2012 10:28:46 AM PST by CAconservitive
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To: Jagdgewehr

No, there is two or three of us left. I have morals...at the very least.

You’re in danger of being stuffed and displayed in a museum case!!! Just joking.

I’m a prune picker born and raised in Alameda and Santa Rosa. I left the state in 1972 but, in my heart it’s the best place on earth.


11 posted on 02/29/2012 10:42:23 AM PST by WestwardHo
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To: WestwardHo

I don’t think it’s about morals. The homosexuals are genetically flawed and actually suffer from a disability. Can you see where this is going?


12 posted on 02/29/2012 10:48:42 AM PST by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: SmithL

Meaningless poll as the opinion of the people of California means nothing out there.


13 posted on 02/29/2012 10:48:54 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: SumProVita
What’s notable is that some of the more significant gains in support came from NON-PRACTICING Catholics...

Yep... demented ones of the Nancy Pelosi variety.

14 posted on 02/29/2012 10:55:41 AM PST by ScottinVA (GOP, meet Courage... Courage, meet GOP.)
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To: sanjuanbob

The only diagnosis for sodomy is sin. The only cure is becoming sensitive to their sin and their misery, repenting and asking God to bring them out of their sin.
Ephesian 2, and John 3:16.
I know about this stuff because my son has been a homosexual for over 10 years.
At age 20 he left home. His parting words were, “This is who I am, who I have always been, and who I want to be.”
My son was my hearts delight, precious in every way.
He was AIDS+ within a year. He is so changed that we would have a hard time recognizing him if he would suddenly come home after all these years.
It’s not a disablility, it’s a choice.


15 posted on 02/29/2012 10:59:37 AM PST by WestwardHo
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To: ScottinVA

Isn’t “non-practicing Catholics” just a longer way of saying “non-Catholics”?


16 posted on 02/29/2012 11:04:57 AM PST by GilesB
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To: Jagdgewehr

Unfortunately I trust the results of the Field Poll. The problem (problem from our point of view anyway) is we have lost the battle for moral clarity. We won the last time the issue was on the ballot here but I’m afraid we wouldn’t win now. And of course the last initiative is being overturned by the courts.


17 posted on 02/29/2012 11:10:06 AM PST by CAconservitive
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To: stylecouncilor; windcliff

NEVER!


18 posted on 02/29/2012 11:27:27 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SmithL

Just look at those 18-39 in the majority. Makes me sick. The homos infiltrated our schools and churches to indoctrinate an entire generation. Here’s hoping they come to their senses as they get older. God will not be mocked. The country I grew up in with so much hope and so much to look forward to has been destroyed by these commie freaks.


19 posted on 02/29/2012 11:28:57 AM PST by godgunsglory59
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To: Retired Greyhound
So put it on the ballot and pass thru the proper legislative channels.

But they haven't, have they? That's called a "clue".

The way the homosexualist crowd works, these polls serve only one function, as a street beating for people who have enough residual common sense to reject the SSM pitch. This is not about persuasion any more -- it never was -- but about demoralizing the public into accepting political backroom deals leading to "judgments" of this or that homophile, forum-shopped judge.

There will be no election. Never. And that tells you what these guys are.

Alinskyites revere Lucifer, and homosexualists revere Goebbels. And liberals never wonder about their own cocksureness. They don't care what is right, they make it right. Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Cool.

20 posted on 02/29/2012 12:11:23 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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