Posted on 05/22/2011 12:38:57 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda
A recent Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, Reuters reports.
The poll shows a significant change in mood on the issue from a year ago, when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony.
The latest Gallup findings, Reuters reports, are in line with two earlier national polls this spring that show support for legally recognized gay marriage has gained a newfound majority among Americans.
According to Gallup, Democrats and political independents accounted for the entire shift in its survey compared to last year, when only 44 percent of all respondents favored gay marriage, while 53 percent were opposed.
The percentage of Republicans favoring same-sex matrimony held steady at 28 percent.
While same-sex marriage remains a highly controversial issue, homosexual couples have won the right to legally wed in five states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa. The District of Columbia has also approved same-sex marriage.
"The trend toward marriage equality is undeniable -- and irreversible," Joe Solmonese, president of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.
Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, said the poll shows her fellow opponents of gay matrimony have been "shamed" into silence.
Twenty-nine states have adopted constitutional amendments restricting marriage as between a man and a woman, and 12 other states have passed laws to that effect, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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How come every state that puts it to a vote it loses?
If true, just shows how sick we are in America.
My conclusion is more Democrats have come out of the closet.
My conclusion, more independents have changed their mind.
>>According to Gallup<<
You have to read the article and the source, if Gallup stated that Obama’s approval ratings are off the charts and Ramussen said it’s in the low 40’s, who would you believe?
What’s next, you’ll believe ZOGBY (a family known for being Democrats)?
If you believe it, you need some fresh air. You’ve been teleported to the SRM parallel universe.
I don’t believe it for a second
This poll is a fraud. The only polls that count and the only polls that are believable are those taken in the polling booths on election day.
Wait. When the majority of Americans polled were against homosexual ‘marriage’ the homosexual lobby said that the polls didn’t matter.
bttt
Christianity can be lost in a generation. 74% of people in my community do not go to church.
.....For First Time, Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage [sic!!!!]....
I don’t!!!!
Three weeks of Media treatment and the truth is recognized by all.
Wgere did they take this poll?
The Castro Street Fair in San Francisco, the queer bathhouses in NY City and the cloak room in the US Senate?
But do these 74% condone same-sex marriage?
Seventy percent of the younger cohort said gays and lesbians should be able to marry. Last year, 54 percent said so.
It's Democrats
Seventy percent of the younger cohort said gays and lesbians should be able to marry. Last year, 54 percent said so.
It's Democrats
My conclusion is that the poll is lying because in EVERY state where the people have a chance to vote on it, they overwhelmingly reject gay marriage.
‘Majority of AMERICANS’...how can Gallup be sure of respondents’ citizenship if it only polled by telephone?
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