New poll shows that Americans oppose gay marriage 60%-33%

The Polling Report ^ | July 21, 2003 | Polling report

[No Dems 2004]

A new Time/CNN poll found that support for gay marriage is still very low. When asked "Do you think marriages between homosexual men or between homosexual women should be recognized as legal by the law?", 60% said NO, while only 33% said YES.

This is a stronger disapproval of gay marriage than shown by the most recent Gallup Poll which showed American adults disapproving it by 55%-39% - though even this was by a convincing margin.

Another recent poll worth considering is the Fox News Poll that showed that, by a margin of 44%-40%, American voters DISAPPROVED of the recent US Supreme Court decision that invalidated the Texas sodomy law. (And don't forget that Quinnipiac University poll that found that Americans regard homosexual behavior as morally wrong by a margin of 58%-31)

[No Dems 2004]

Just an update on 'tolerant' America's approach. While our neighbours to the north are legalizing gay marriage, our public seems just ecstatic by the prospect don't they? It's time for our elected leaders to get with it and protect us from this disease called the homosexual agenda.

[AntiGuv]

The Gallup poll asked a somewhat different question, with an emphasis on 'rights' as opposed to status.

Gallup: "Do you think marriages between homosexuals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?"

Time: "Do you think marriages between homosexual men or between homosexual women should be recognized as legal by the law?"

[Cicero]

I'm not sure it makes any difference as long as we've got thousands of clintonoid judges willing to push the gay agenda. These people say they oppose gay marriage, but then they turn around and vote for Democrat politicians who support it.

[laweeks]

I don't think there's enough guts in congress or in the hearts of Americans to stop this onslaught. These homosexual activists will not stop. They're winning. There's no teeny sign that anything will stop them now that the SCOTUS has shamed itself. Best we can do is sit and watch . . . and I'm being optimistic!

[DoughtyOne]

Hmmm, core values and no core values. That 33% is the bedrock left, not a moral clue among them.

[RJCogburn]

I wonder if the results are different if the question is regarding non marriage 'civil union' arrangements.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[chachacha]

Ahh! There's hope for America yet.

[LiteKeeper]

Marriage= Man + Woman

Man = male + female (Gen 1:27)

[ipsofacto]

Sit back and watch? Not hardly, the answer to all this nonsense is to pass a constituitional amendment as suggested by Senator Frist and many others. That will fix it, stop it and we all need to be urging that action by Congress and the ratification by the 38 states to get it done (37 states have already passed the Defense of Marriage Act). The public support is obviosuly there!

[AntiGuv]

In that same Gallup poll conducted May 2003, 49% supported civil unions and 49% opposed.

[RJCogburn]

Thanks.

[No Dems 2004]

"I don't think there's enough guts in congress or in the hearts of Americans to stop this onslaught. These homosexual activists will not stop. They're winning. There's no teeny sign that anything will stop them now that the SCOTUS has shamed itself. Best we can do is sit and watch . . . and I'm being optimistic!"

Aw, come on, man. You've got to have more faith than that. Texas v. Lawrence was a blow, but it's reassuring to know that it wasn't unanimous. It's not impossible that we'll get some more decent folk on the Supreme Court bench. After all, many conservatives are making it to the Federal Appeals bench.

And, while I hate to admit it (because I'm so indignant with the majority of justices), the current US Supreme Court would probably not force gay marriage on us right now. Don't forget that just 3 years ago, the court's majority gave the okay for the Boy Scouts of America to ban homosexuals from their organisation. It wasn't a huge landmark decision, but it was the right one. We have to realize that there is a big difference between Lawrence and gay marriage.

It's going to be hard, but we've got to keep driving on. Don't be discouraged, my friend.

[T'laren]

"I don't think there's enough guts in congress or in the hearts of Americans to stop this onslaught. These homosexual activists will not stop."

Laweeks, you're making gays sound like militant environmentalists... stop doing that, seriously.

I've got homosexual friends, and I asked them a while back after the Texas sodomy law was overturned why there's the big deal over the gay marraige thing in the first place. Thier answers, almost unanimously, was, "Getting the breaks that hetero couples get with marraige".

I think it's all about fair play down the middle, but that's just my opinion.

[chiefqc]

I tdoes not matter what the American public thinks, it only matters what the SCOTUS decides what we should think.

What a group, some not all, of drooling morons.

[Dr Warmoose]

Marriage= Man + Woman

Or until the mob decides 51/49 in favor of changing the meaning of the word "marriage".

[Dr Warmoose]

"Getting the breaks that hetero couples get with marraige".

The Marriage Penalty is a "break"?

Try again. Its all about destroying the culture. There are so many places that recognize those farces called "domestic partnerships" which are nothing more than schemes to get some AIDS patient on someone's company subsidized medical insurance, that there is no need to destroy a thousands of years old institution. What a bunch of selfish degenerates.

[mvpel]

One of the "breaks" involved is that when one partner of a married couple dies, the home in which they live is not reassessed at the current market value which would lead to a sometimes-massive increase in property taxes.

[First Amendment]

I think it's all about fair play down the middle, but that's just my opinion.

Your opinon is ill-informed (either due to lack of study, or lack of adherence to common sense I do not know) and therefore useless. Anyone who regularly avails him/herself of the wealth of information on FR will easily learn of the existence of the "gay agenda"- it exists, the homosexual activists themselves admit of its existence.

They do not want "equal rights" (as if choosing particular sexual behaviors is a cause for special consideration). They want to change society to suit them. Well, many of us do not agree. And the more they campaign to turn society into their personal sodomy parlor, the more people are going to wake up and fight back.