For First Time, Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage

Fox News ^ | May 22, 2011

[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.

[John O]

There is a debate on whether homosexuals are born or made. I tend to believe in both, but I'll focus on the "made ones."

Homosexuality is a mental disease caused by trauma (either physical or mental). For males the main cause are an absent or insufficient relationship with one's father, being molested or otherwise abused, or being relentlessly teased by one's peers during teh formative years. Every "homosexual" I have ever encountered had at least one of these causes in his life. For females the main cause appears to be being sexually molested.

There is no "genetic" or biological component to this disease at all.

[57 Red States]

How come every state that puts it to a vote it loses?

That was then; this is now.

[57 Red States]

Yep. 52% is a razor-thin margin, and the trends have been moving for a few years since then.

[Republic of Texas]

If this is true, let’s have a referendum.

[patriot preacher]

Simply NOT believable

[Nowhere Man]

Homosexuality is a mental disease caused by trauma (either physical or mental). For males the main cause are an absent or insufficient relationship with one's father, being molested or otherwise abused, or being relentlessly teased by one's peers during teh formative years. Every "homosexual" I have ever encountered had at least one of these causes in his life. For females the main cause appears to be being sexually molested.

There is no "genetic" or biological component to this disease at all.

I can't deny a biological component, but I am convinced that many or most of them resorted to the gay lifestyle for the reason I gave as well as the ones you gave me. I know I've had a lot of trauma growing up, I could have been one myself but I'm not while a friend who had a lot of the same trauma became one.

Myself, I generally am willing to leave them alone as long as they keep it private and not use the judicial system to force it on the rest of us. I know under our system, it is possible that through the legislative process, they can pass gay marriage in the States as some already did. I guess as long as the people in those States are for it (IMHO, I do believe most people are for traditional marriage, even in the blue States) then I'm afraid we would lose in those few States. That is our system, sometimes what is legal is not moral or vice versa. However, I'm confident that in most States, we do have the upper hand and if government is going to get involved in marriage then it should preserve the traditional form and we need to step up our efforts. Deep down inside, I think government should not get involved, but again, I cannot go all that way since I just cannot support same sex marriage. However, if sex sex marriage passes, then by all rights, we cannot deny people who are polygamists and so on, I mean if the proponent for this want it, then they have to put up with the mess. The bad side, we will have to put up with the mess too. B-(

It's a shame that common sense has fallen so much that we need to code it into law. B-( Sometimes I wish I had a time machine, I would find some way to abort the Civil Rights Movement or at least channel it differently to where people would not see everything as a civil right. For added bonus points, I'd stop the guy who invented the birth control pill too.

[Nowhere Man]

If this is true, let’s have a referendum.

I'm for it. Let's settle it once and for all. Let the people of each State decide this matter in a referendum. I'm almost sure that even on all Blue States, you'd have a majority for traditional marriage. However, if we lose one, two or three, so be it, let the same sex marriage people move there and the traditional ones can move in with us and all will be happy.

[Morpheus2009]

I would be willing to believe that there are environmental factors as a possibility. Yes, as far as genetics goes, we have no way of predicting who is homosexual prior to their official “coming out” about it.

However, it is possible that certain chemical substances can influence from early life or childhood. Either way, I would agree with anyone who does say that there is a difference between committing an act and same-gender attraction.

[manc]

Now that is the biggest crock of B/S I have read for some time, if these fools and the homostapo think they’re the majority then let the people vote, what’s that oh no they don;t want that

[manc]

funny how they say when it comes to a vote they always lose and you know why?
because people want normal marriage and not some sick perverts roaming around saying they’re married because if that happens then all kinds of marriage should be allowed as every argument used by the homostapo is used by those wanting incest marriage, animals, more than one wife etc

get a grip homosexuals you like getting off in an unnatural way but so do many but it does not mean you should get equal rights you sick twisted fools

[manc]

yea this poll could never be biased , lets ignore how every state votes leads to the homosexuals and the sick mentally like cross dressers and more than one wife always lose

any idiots thinking this was true need to bet their head seen to , as anyone with brains could only think and see through this bogus poll

[manc]

please tell me that you do not believe this crap as it is bogus, think about it

[manc]

FOX is a joke and the likes of Hannity are not even conservative and he admitted it and yet we still have dopes watching him thinking he is one of us the media are the biggest enemy to this country

[manc]

which is why we need to raise our kids and inform our friend, family, neighbors etc to what real normal marriage is otherwise sitting on the side saying nothing is only helping the manifesto, so for you cowards well done you commie rats you should be ashamed of yourselves , not you proud

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[Antoninus]

This is not even close to true, except in the lunch room at major media outlets.

[John O]

There is no way to tell from a corpse if it was "gay" or not other than diseases and damage caused by the behavior itself. There is no biological component to this disease. It is entirely mental.

There are 10's of thousands of ex-gays. How could they get free if it was biological? It is not an immutable characteristic, it is a mental disease.

[manc]

LOL Yea and the founding fathers wanted homosexuality to be admitted as normal.

ARF, There is only one proper normal marriage and that is between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, if you allow queers then you should allow anything including consenting incest, animals, more than one wife etc

[manc]

I have 3 kids and all of them are against homosexuality and their agenda, WHY?
Because they are being told a lot what is normal and what is not.
They are told how the schools, media and lying media push an agenda and they should not fall for it and they stand up for their views

My 13 year old was on the bus and heard a new girl who had just moved down here from up north saying first she’s a queer then she is Bi.
Everyone was saying what a weirdo etc and then my son said you’re weird, why are you looking for attention since you moved here , it is not normal what you’re saying
you know what everyone at the school agrees with my son and this girl next day admitted she was normal and not ever has she ever said she is anything but normal

see when people stand up and face these people and make normal relationships into a more fashionable thing then others follow and it stops the left pushing their agenda.

Now sure where you live but if your kids think it is OK I would think you might want to sit them down and let them know what the media is doing but of course I’m sure you have already done that so maybe they need to stand up and speak out like one of my sons and then again down here in north east Florida no one likes the homosexual agenda including kids

[manc]

correct, this is not about marriage and only a fool would think so, this is about a bigger agenda, a bigger picture.

This is about teaching it in schools, making it law, it is about sex pure and simple and then lowering the age for the men to have sex with boys think NAMBLA etc.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

hell they were trying this on back in 63 and still are, this is about destroying this country and what made this country was the traditional family and church.

Without a family we have nothing and no one, the left knows this and are out to destroy it.

Look at what they go after boy scouts, military churches
all a group with morals and ethics, destroy the core backbone they can destroy everything

what is sad that maybe some queers actually think they are normal because the activists tell them they are as they need the homosexual sheep to give them their agenda and power

[manc]

correct and no matter how many times the media tries to spin it or hollywood having two pretty women kissing marriage will always be between one man and one woman.

We need to speak up, not stay silent, tell our children as there is no excuse for any conservative saying my kids have no problem with the queer agenda.
That only tells me that that parent has not been talking tot heir kids since birth on what is right and wrong