Posted on 04/24/2015 10:33:58 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The number of legally married same-sex couples in the United States has tripled in the last year, according to a new poll released today by Gallup that was co-authored by Gary J. Gates, Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, and Frank Newport, editor in chief of Gallup.
The new estimate suggests that 390,000 out of nearly 1 million same-sex couples in the U.S. are married.
Estimates from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey had the figure at 130,000.
"As the Supreme Court considers on Tuesday if same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, these data demonstrate that marriage is already widespread among same-sex couples," said Gates. "In the last year alone, estimates suggest that more than a quarter million of the 390,000 married same-sex couples in this country got married as state bans on such marriages were lifted across the nation. Even so, about one in six married same-sex couples live in states that currently don't recognize their marriage."
Findings from the poll also show that 60,000 married same-sex couples live in the 13 states that do not allow same-sex couples to marry.
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted from January to April 2015 on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey. The study included a random sample of 80,568 adults ages 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
“Isn’t that stylish!”
What about gay marriage divorce rate?
Its a fad that will blow over.
To put that in perspective: one out of 180 “marriages” are between homosexuals.
At the same time, real marriages (between one man and one woman) are on the decrease and divorce is a easy as ordering a pizza. Either way, marriage is being cheapened everywhere you look.
There are sixty million real married couples in the United States, and only (claimed) one million same-sex "couples". It's a shame to see the far left fringe redefining a word that has served as a cornerstone for western civilization just to meet the demands of less than 2% of the population.
tripled...? from what 10 to 30?...BFD!!!
And just who giveth a ratus asses...?
Better question - how many jailed for Pedophilia and abuse of their ‘child’
See Peter Truong and Mark Newton
Disgraced extinctionist marriage poster boys.
YEAH I AM PRO - CHOICE !
I CHOOSE NOT TO APPROVE AND ENDORSE THESE UNHOLY UNIONS !
And just think ?
Liberals were the ones yelling for pro-choice...
“The number of legally married same-sex couples in the United States has tripled in the last year”
When it became legal. Imagine that.
I bet tax revenues from alcohol sales also went up after Prohibition went away.
That is one to many!
Well blow me down.
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