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For First Time, Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage
Fox News ^ | May 22, 2011

Posted on 05/22/2011 12:38:57 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda

A recent Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, Reuters reports.

The poll shows a significant change in mood on the issue from a year ago, when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony.

The latest Gallup findings, Reuters reports, are in line with two earlier national polls this spring that show support for legally recognized gay marriage has gained a newfound majority among Americans.

According to Gallup, Democrats and political independents accounted for the entire shift in its survey compared to last year, when only 44 percent of all respondents favored gay marriage, while 53 percent were opposed.

The percentage of Republicans favoring same-sex matrimony held steady at 28 percent.

While same-sex marriage remains a highly controversial issue, homosexual couples have won the right to legally wed in five states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa. The District of Columbia has also approved same-sex marriage.

"The trend toward marriage equality is undeniable -- and irreversible," Joe Solmonese, president of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.

Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, said the poll shows her fellow opponents of gay matrimony have been "shamed" into silence.

Twenty-nine states have adopted constitutional amendments restricting marriage as between a man and a woman, and 12 other states have passed laws to that effect, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: analsex; gaymarriage; homosexauls; homosexualagenda; marriage; pervertpower; perverts
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1 posted on 05/22/2011 12:39:05 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda
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To: Sarabaracuda

How come every state that puts it to a vote it loses?


2 posted on 05/22/2011 12:39:50 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Sarabaracuda

If true, just shows how sick we are in America.


3 posted on 05/22/2011 12:40:53 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: Sarabaracuda

My conclusion is more Democrats have come out of the closet.


4 posted on 05/22/2011 12:41:18 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: hflynn; All

My conclusion, more independents have changed their mind.


5 posted on 05/22/2011 12:44:23 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: mulligan

>>According to Gallup<<

You have to read the article and the source, if Gallup stated that Obama’s approval ratings are off the charts and Ramussen said it’s in the low 40’s, who would you believe?

What’s next, you’ll believe ZOGBY (a family known for being Democrats)?


6 posted on 05/22/2011 12:44:35 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: mulligan

If you believe it, you need some fresh air. You’ve been teleported to the SRM parallel universe.


7 posted on 05/22/2011 12:45:16 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Hating *me* won't make *you* handsome, intelligent, straight, male *or* white.)
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To: Sarabaracuda

I don’t believe it for a second


8 posted on 05/22/2011 12:45:59 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: RnMomof7
Even in the uber-liberal state of Kalifornistan voters approved Proposition 8, which said, "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" by over 52%.

This poll is a fraud. The only polls that count and the only polls that are believable are those taken in the polling booths on election day.

9 posted on 05/22/2011 12:46:26 PM PDT by South40 (Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
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Wait. When the majority of Americans polled were against homosexual ‘marriage’ the homosexual lobby said that the polls didn’t matter.


10 posted on 05/22/2011 12:46:33 PM PDT by whd23 (Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
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To: RnMomof7

bttt


11 posted on 05/22/2011 12:46:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Sarabaracuda

Christianity can be lost in a generation. 74% of people in my community do not go to church.


12 posted on 05/22/2011 12:46:58 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Sarabaracuda

.....For First Time, Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage [sic!!!!]....

I don’t!!!!


13 posted on 05/22/2011 12:48:39 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Sarabaracuda

Three weeks of Media treatment and the truth is recognized by all.


14 posted on 05/22/2011 12:49:34 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Sarabaracuda

Wgere did they take this poll?

The Castro Street Fair in San Francisco, the queer bathhouses in NY City and the cloak room in the US Senate?


15 posted on 05/22/2011 12:51:08 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: stars & stripes forever

But do these 74% condone same-sex marriage?


16 posted on 05/22/2011 12:51:18 PM PDT by 353FMG (The M1911 is mightier than the sword.)
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To: gleeaikin
Wrong. The latest poll revealed a whopping 16 percent increase over the last year among 18- to 34-year-olds in support of letting homosexual couples wed.

Seventy percent of the younger cohort said gays and lesbians should be able to marry. Last year, 54 percent said so.

It's Democrats

17 posted on 05/22/2011 12:52:24 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: gleeaikin
Wrong. The latest poll revealed a whopping 16 percent increase over the last year among 18- to 34-year-olds in support of letting homosexual couples wed.

Seventy percent of the younger cohort said gays and lesbians should be able to marry. Last year, 54 percent said so.

It's Democrats

18 posted on 05/22/2011 12:52:33 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: gleeaikin

My conclusion is that the poll is lying because in EVERY state where the people have a chance to vote on it, they overwhelmingly reject gay marriage.


19 posted on 05/22/2011 12:54:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Sarabaracuda

‘Majority of AMERICANS’...how can Gallup be sure of respondents’ citizenship if it only polled by telephone?


20 posted on 05/22/2011 12:54:34 PM PDT by Ben Reyes (Sarah Palin for President 2012)
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