CNN Poll is First To Show Majority Support for Gay Marriage

FiveThirtyEight ^ | 8/11/10 | Nate Silver

[detritus]

A landmark of sorts was achieved today as CNN just came out with a poll showing a 52 percent majority of Americans agreed with the statement that "gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid." Some 46 percent of respondents disagreed with the statement...

CNN also asked the question in a slightly different way to half its respondents, omitting the term "should" from the question above, i.e. "Do you think gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid?". Using that phrasing, 49 percent said yes and 51 percent said no.

Combining the two subsamples has 50.5 percent of Americans in support of gay marriage and 47.5 percent opposed: just about the barest possible majority. But a majority nevertheless, something that no previous poll had shown. An ABC/Washington Post poll from April 2009 had come the closest, showing a 49/46 plurality in support of gay marriage rights; a few other polls had also shown gay marriage to the plurality position when respondents were given a three-way choice of marriage, civil unions, and no legal recognition. But no national poll, save for one debatable case with highly unorthodox phrasing, had shown it to the the majority position....

[jonno]

“gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid.”

Yep - as long long as they "follow the rules".

[longtermmemmory]

it is a CNN poll that was designed to show government MSM support for homosexual marriages because on Wednesday evening expect thousands of repulsive pictures.

Remember CNN is just as homosexual as MSNBC, or shep smith on FNC.

[ICE-FLYER]

Liars...engineering a poll that is soooooo very out of sync with voter returns in the past 10 years. Flippin liars. This is why NOBODY trusts CNN.

[al_c]

CNN Poll is First To Show Majority Support for Gay Marriage of Viewers are Gay.

There, I fixed it.

[chris_bdba]

This is funny sicne evertime it goes to the ballot it is roundly defeated!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

CNN poll.....nuf said

[ZULU]

I don’t think many voters today are capapble of discerning what is constitutional or not or even have the slightest concept of why that is a significant issue.

Which is frightening.

So many willing slaves.

[DJ MacWoW]

Newbie it’s been voted down in every state where it’s been on the ballot. Americans do NOT approve.

[Nosterrex]

I have a healthy skepticism about any poll, and I certainly have my doubts about the liberal media, such as CNN. I would have to see a number of independent and reliable polls before I have start to trust the results of these polls. But for the sake of argument, if this poll is accurate, it only confirms the fact that America no longer has a Biblical worldview, and that Christendom is dead in America. America is still a religious nation, but it is not the religion of traditional Christianity. It is a heretical form of Christianity.

[1035rep]

You really don’t believe this do you? If the majority of Californians don’t approve then you can bet this is a bogus poll.

[Impy]

Obama could nominate Judge Mathis for the Supreme Court and this Senate would probably confirm him. ;d

[cmj328]

Abominable.

[massmike]

...and here’s a poll that shows just the opposite....

New Poll: Americans Oppose Gay Marriage 57 percent to 33 percent

Our newest national survey finds 57% of Americans think it should be illegal while 33% think it should be legal and 11% have no opinion. Republicans are pretty universal in thinking it should be illegal, 81/12, while Democrats only narrowly favor it 47/40. Independents array slightly against it by a 48/41 margin.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/08/americans-still-opposed-to-gay-marriage.html

[cmj328]

The internals show that 67% of women are in favor, but only 37% of men.

[Almondjoy]

In other news.... 52% of respondents in the poll said “What is the Constitution anyways?”

[aSeattleConservative]

I have a healthy skepticism about any poll, and I certainly have my doubts about the liberal media, such as CNN. I would have to see a number of independent and reliable polls before I have start to trust the results of these polls. But for the sake of argument, if this poll is accurate, it only confirms the fact that America no longer has a Biblical worldview, and that Christendom is dead in America. America is still a religious nation, but it is not the religion of traditional Christianity. It is a heretical form of Christianity.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

— John Adams, October 11, 1798

IMO, the Constitution is a null and void document.