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Poll: More Oppose Gay Marriage [Growing Backlash from SCOTUS ruling]
CBSNEWS ^
| Thursday, July 31, 2003
Posted on 07/31/2003 12:13:19 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Poll: More Oppose Gay Marriage
NEW YORK, July 30, 2003
Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law banning sodomy, more Americans object to legal marriage for homosexuals than support it.
In the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, 55 percent would oppose a law allowing homosexual couples to marry, giving them the same legal rights as other married couples, while 40 percent would favor such a law.
GAY MARRIAGE
Favor
40%
Oppose
55%
Republicans hold particularly strong views against gay marriage: 71 percent of them oppose it, and 27 percent favor it. Democrats and Independents are more evenly divided; 45 percent of Democrats support it, as do 45 percent of Independents.
Younger people are much more likely than older Americans to support gay marriage. Sixty-one percent of 18- to 29-year-olds favor it; that drops to just 18 percent among people 65 and older.
Opposition to gay marriage is strong among conservatives (71 percent oppose it), blacks (63 percent) and Protestants (64 percent). Catholics also oppose it, though by a smaller margin than the entire population; 44 percent favor it and 50 percent oppose it.
There are no real differences between men and women on this issue.
This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 3,092 adults interviewed by telephone July 13-27, 2003. The error due to sampling could be plus or minus two percentage points for results based on the entire sample.
For detailed information on how CBS News conducts public opinion surveys, click here.
© MMIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backlash; homosexualagenda; polls; prisoners
To: JohnHuang2
Damn, I wonder if I can get that ring back!
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:08:56 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: JohnHuang2; MadIvan; TonyInOhio; MeeknMing; itreei; jd792; Molly Pitcher; muggs; Bikers4Bush; ...
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posted on
07/31/2003 2:13:16 AM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
("Treason" How can such a small word mean so little to so many ?)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK; *Homosexual Agenda
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posted on
07/31/2003 7:47:23 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Coming Soon !: Freeper site on Comcast. Found the URL. Gotta fix it now.)
To: JohnHuang2
I'm not sure how this would represent a growing backlash. This is down significantly.
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:53:11 AM PDT
by
Republican Wildcat
(Help us elect Republicans in Kentucky! Click on my name for links to all the 2003 candidates!)
To: MeeknMing
That is the sickest s--- I've ever seen!
They're filth. They're degenerate filth. There's no other way to put it. To see that going on in a church is an abomination.
I hope a warm spot is reserved in Hell for any minister, reverend, or priest that would perform such a ceremony.
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