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NBC/WSJ POLL: At 59%, Support for Same-Sex Marriage Hits New High
NBC News ^ | 03/10/2015

Posted on 03/10/2015 9:29:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Almost six in ten Americans say they favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into same-sex marriages, the highest level of support ever recorded in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In the new survey released Monday, 59 percent of Americans said that they favor same-sex marriages while just 33 percent said they oppose them.

View the full poll results here.

The numbers have shifted dramatically in the past decade. In 2004, only 30 percent of Americans said they supported same-sex marriage, while 62 percent disagreed. Half of those polled at the time said they strongly opposed allowing gays and lesbians to marry.

Democratic pollster Fred Yang noted how quickly public opinion has shifted on the issue, even compared to interracial marriage, which is now almost universally accepted.

"It took about 25 years for interracial marriage to get from 30 percent support to 60 percent," he said. "It took same-sex marriage ten years."

The share of the public backing same-sex marriage has even jumped from just two years ago, when 53 percent of Americans backed it and 42 percent did not.

That's due in part to big increases in support among Republicans (up 13 percent since 2013), seniors (up seven percent), and Hispanics (up 18 percent).


(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaymarrriage; gaynewsrooms; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; pinkjournalism; samesexmarriage; ssm
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To: SeekAndFind

basically the result of a 10 year all out lib media onslaught on traditional American values. Everywhere you look it’s a disproportionate amount of gays on sitcoms, in TV newsrooms...it’s been a full court press attempt to try and “normalize” this practice.


61 posted on 03/10/2015 10:58:50 AM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: SeekAndFind

The nation continues to sink deeper into the depths of depravity.


62 posted on 03/10/2015 11:06:44 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: SeekAndFind

56% of Americans want a squared circle, too.

Doesn’t mean one exists.


63 posted on 03/10/2015 11:44:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: BeadCounter

All bible prophecy. It will get worse before it gets better. The homosexuals are winning all the battles...but they will lose the war.


64 posted on 03/10/2015 4:21:44 PM PDT by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Back in the old days, people stayed in the closet. For a lot of these people, we all knew what the deal was with “Aunt Janice and her roommate,” but it was an unspoken situation. The adults in the family knew, but the kids were oblivious.

Now, we have Aunt Janice & “her partner, Aunt Adrian”.. and those around them are softened to the issue. Kids grow-up seeing this daily, they’re not taught why the behavior is detrimental, and they’re desensitized to it, with media and Hollywood promoting it as “fun” or “normal” or “modern.”

The homos may be only 2% or so of the population, but through this in-your-face process, they’ve softened-up a much larger size of the population - their family members, friends, coworkers. And people are too timid or tired to be truthful. I’ve seen it happen in my own family, where a few of us are “haters” for speaking the truth.

The strategy of encouraging people to come out was insidious in its simplicity, and until we come up with an effective counter, we’re going to have trouble. But our faith requires us to be true to The Word.


65 posted on 03/10/2015 4:34:48 PM PDT by MarkRegal05
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To: SeekAndFind

Ten more years of relentless propaganda in the government propaganda machines (aka “mainstream media”), the Leftist culture, and in all the schools - just like the “gay rights” movement - and the Second Amendment will be looked upon like man-woman only marriage; a hopeless anachronism left over from the musket and horse and buggy days.


66 posted on 03/10/2015 5:29:41 PM PDT by Gritty (Between Iran and ISIS, the enemy of my enemy is ... my enemy! - Benjamin Netanyahu)
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