Why I Support Gay Marriage | Congrswoman Nancy Pelosi

Contents:

• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
• SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
• GAY MARRIAGE WON RARE SUPPORT. WILL OTHER LGBTQ RIGHTS FOLLOW SU?
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• WHY I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level, and last year reached the 70% mark for the first time. Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage.

Amerins who report that they attend church weekly rema the primary mographic holdout agast gay marriage, wh 40% favor and 58% opposed. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996). 4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.

Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage.

WHY NOT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?

In her rearch, Twenge said she’s found that as the US beme more dividualistic and Amerins stopped viewg gay and lbian people as a monolh, their attus toward same-sex marriage beme more posive.

SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS

“I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. "Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse.

"You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about. " Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about.

GAY MARRIAGE WON RARE SUPPORT. WILL OTHER LGBTQ RIGHTS FOLLOW SU?

Two years after the Supreme Court cisn that required stat to regnize same-sex marriag natnwi, support for allowg gays and lbians to marry legally is at s hight pot over 20 years of Pew Rearch Center pollg on the issue. By a marg of nearly two-to-one (62% to 32%), more Amerins now say they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry than say they are opposed. For the first time, a majory of Republins and Republin-leang pennts do not oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

Younger Amerins ntue to be more likely than olr Amerins to say they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally: Fully 74% of Millennials (ag 18 to 36) say they favor same-sex marriage, while jt 23% say they are opposed. And by more than two-to-one, more Generatn Xers (those ag 37 to 52) favor allowg gays and lbians to marry than oppose same-sex marriage (65% vs. Although blacks rema ls likely than wh and Hispanics to favor allowg gays and lbians to marry, the share who favor gay marriage has also dramatilly creased over the past : Today 51% of blacks support same-sex marriage; 2007, jt 26% did so.

Republins and Republin leaners are divid on the qutn for the first time: 47% favor allowg gays and lbians to marry, while a nearly intil share is opposed (48%).

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, majori of all generatnal horts support allowg gays and lbians to marry, though support is greater among younger generatns: Nearly ne--ten Democratic Millennials (87%) support same-sex marriage, pared wh 56% of Democrats the Silent generatn. Smaller majori of those wh some llege experience but no llege gree (62%) or those wh no more than a high school gree (53%) say they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry. There also are wi iologil differenc among Democrats, though majori of nservative and morate Democrats (66%) and liberal Democrats (90%) favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

WHY I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Acrdg to a report by the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh 1 or 2 gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. Acrdg to the prs release for the issue, "Amendments that rtrict civil marriage rights of same-sex upl — such as Proposn 8 that recently passed California — have led to higher levels of strs and anxiety among lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults, as well as among their fai of orig, acrdg to several new studi to be published by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

The release reports rults om an onle study of 1, 552 lbian, gay and bisexual adults om all 50 stat and the District of Columbia. Sharon Sl Rostosky, at the Universy of Kentucky, "The rults of this study monstrate that livg a state that has jt passed a marriage amendment is associated wh higher levels of psychologil strs for lbian, gay and bisexual cizens, " Rostosky said.