Amerins' Support for Gay Marriage Remas High, at 61%

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• SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
• U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%
• AMERINS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REMAS HIGH, AT 61%
• AMERINS STILL UNCLEAR ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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

Support for gay marriage at 70% for first time. A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn.

Hodg cisn 2015, support for gay marriage had reached 60%. For the First Time, a Small Majory of Republins Support Gay Marriage.

This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.

U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%

Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. “There was once tth to when nservative Christians said people of fah oppose gay marriage, ” he said. 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.

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.

Young adults, Democrats among the groups most supportive of gay marriage. Public support for legally regnizg gay marriag has been nsistently above 50% sce the early 2010s. Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level.

AMERINS' SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REMAS HIGH, AT 61%

Today, majori of all but two key subgroups -- Republins (49%) and weekly churchgoers (41%) -- say gay marriag should be legally regnized.

Republin support for gay marriage has hovered around the 50% mark sce 2020, wh slight majori backg 2021 and 2022. Like all other subgroups, weekly churchgoers (41%) are more supportive of gay marriage now than they were the prev two s. Gay marriage beme the law of the land after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell cisn, and Print Joe Bin signed bipartisan legislatn to ward off future judicial attempts at undog s legaly late last year.

Among many groups -- cludg olr adults, Prottants and rints of the South -- perspectiv on gay marriage have gone om majory opposn to majory support over the urse of Gallup’s trend spanng more than a quarter of a century.

AMERINS STILL UNCLEAR ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

The rults, released Monday, found jt 28 percent of rponnts oppose the right of gay upl to wed. Support creased among this group, acrdg to PRRI, which found 41 percent of whe evangelils supported gay marriage a 2019 survey. Proponents outnumbered opponents for the first time 2009 — 49 percent to 46 percent — acrdg to an ABC News/Washgton Post numbers ntued to climb, pecially after the Supreme Court enshred the eedom of gay upl to marry natnwi 2015’s Obergefell v.

More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). 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. As recently as 2010, more Amerins opposed (48%) than favored (42%) allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.