Posted on 03/27/2007 3:58:39 AM PDT by Princip. Conservative
Although New Jersey recently enacted legislation allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, support for gay couples among Hudson County residents is substantially lower than it was in 2003, when the first cases seeking recognition of gay marriage were filed, according to a recent The Jersey Journal/New Jersey City University poll.
The poll shows that 42.2 percent of respondents support civil unions, 29.7 percent oppose them and 28 percent either did not respond or said they were not sure.
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In a poll taken in 2003, before any state or municipality had permitted gay marriages, 55 percent of Hudson respondents supported same-sex marriage, which goes a step further than civil unions by also conferring the title of marriage upon gay couples.
But after San Francisco made headlines in 2004 by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, an NJCU poll showed that support for same-sex couples had dipped, with 47.8 percent of respondents supporting same-sex marriage.
With this latest poll - which was taken shortly after New Jersey legalized civil unions - yielding the lowest percentage of support yet, Chadwick and Moran discerned a trend from the three polls: "As the issue. received more attention from media and political figures, residents of the county reconsidered their initial support of gay marriage."
In a follow-up question in the latest poll, respondents were asked to speculate about the impact that same-sex civil unions might have on New Jersey's reputation nationwide.
A shade under 29 percent believed that they would adversely effect New Jersey's reputation, while 17.7 percent said it would improve it; and 53.4 percent believed it would either have no effect, didn't know what effect it would have, or didn't answer the question.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
While that's higher than other parts of the country, it's food for thought when you consider that when a court order or something comes, it can cause opposition to shoot up. This means that opposition to gay rights, etc, is probably much higher in the US than most polls suggest. Very interesting.
Perhaps it was just the public spectacle of their former governor that sickened them of the idea.
I was about to award "duh of the week" but I misread the headline. I thought it said "black".
When are we going to stop allowing the homosexuals to hijack the language and stop calling them what they aren't (gays) and start calling them what they are (queers)?
* Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney.
* The masked executioner of Saddam Hussein: Fred Thompson.
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* Fred Thompson took over what was Al Gore's Senate seat, thereby dramatically reducing the Senate's carbon footprint. Fred Thompson then created carbon offset offsets by wastefully burning hippies.
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It would also help to know the sample size of the previous poll this one is being compared with. It's always good to match apples with apples, and not with oranges.
OOOPs I posted this to the wrong thread...sorry.
Too many of the polls are fabrications of organizations with agenda's. Questions are carefully worded to achieve results desired opposed to truth. I put no creedence in any poll no matter how well founded the purveyor.
I am my own poll
How can anyone other than the homosexuals themselves support something that is so repulsive. Amen.
This also displays how to game polls.
For example thy pool the "did not answer" with the people who provided the answer "do not know"
I bet if we compare the two polls with the people question each time we will find the flaws.
Thanks for screwing up.
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Same here -- LOL! Go Thompson!
Uh; there's a fellow named Charles here, who would like to speak to you...
see #7
It just seems so gay.
Dang!! I wonder why??
Genesis 13:13 Now
the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed,
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Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.
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Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape.....
It works JUST fine here, too!
Considering the fact that "same-sex marriage" is a contradiction in terms, half the state is insane.
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