Why Is There More Republin Support for Gay Marriage Than for Abortn Rights? | The Natn

Contents:

• TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
• WHY ARE ALL THE DEMOCRATS SUDNLY PRO-GAY MARRIAGE?
• WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

TWO-THIRDS OF DEMOCRATS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

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.

Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. In the space of two days this week voters North Carola approved a nstutnal amendment effectively banng same-sex marriage and US Print Barack Obama ma clear his view that gay and lbian upl should have the chance to wed. We Southerners have held the le for tradn and moral tth about marriage every time the issue has been put on the ballot how cisive the North Carola vote was, and given that gay marriage proponents have lost every state, even culturally liberal California, is temptg to thk we n stand athwart history yellg, "Stop!

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

In my newsroom experience, is taken as given that any opposn to gay marriage n only e om rank would no more take a fenr of tradnal marriage serly than you would take a segregatnist serly - or so the thkg go. Tryg to expla philosophilly why homosexualy is not the same thg as race draws blank is simply not somethg to be reasoned about, pecially not wh my generatn of journalists: too young to have seen the black civil rights movement, and who are not about to miss out on their own versn.

Though I firmly believe there is only a superficial nnectn between gay marriage and ter-racial marriage, the legacy of the civil rights movement the South is precisely why I thk marriage tradnalists are gog to lose the long n. This tells somethg about the future of gay marriage, given the domance of the "civil rights" narrative the public is monly known,. Gay marriage opponents like to tell themselv that people get more nservative as they age - te, general, but unlikely this long as the tradnalist posn on same-sex marriage, almost universally held only 25 years ago, is treated as irratnal hatred and nothg but by the media, bs, and social el, there will be powerful social and psychologil prsure to shun .

WHY ARE ALL THE DEMOCRATS SUDNLY PRO-GAY MARRIAGE?

Prejudice - eher the bad sense of mdls bigotry, or the good, Burkean sense - is the only thg keepg gay marriage at will not last, pecially as the social, legal, and mercial price for holdg fast to tradn creas, as certaly will, now that same-sex marriage mands the high ground the US social and cultural hierarchy.

WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?WHY IS THERE MORE REPUBLIN SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE THAN FOR ABORTN RIGHTS?

Gay marriage plet the stutnalisatn of the sexual revolutn, agast which the forc of social nservatism and relig tradn have been pleasg as ballot box victori are, I see no reason for the long feat to reverse, at least not my lifetime.

C., on June 26, 2015, after the urt legalized gay marriage natnwi. Compared to prr reports, Democrats reported the same level of approval for gay and lbian marriage over the past few years. Gallup wrote, "This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now.

When Gallup first began askg this qutn 1996, jt 27% of Amerins endorsed the legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag. Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay. "I've ma clear my support for gay marriage years ago.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

“If gay upl want to be as happily or miserably married as straight upl, more power to them. “Log Cab Republins thanks the forward-thkg members for votg to settle this issue once and for all and move the Republin Party le not jt wh the vast majory of the untry, but wh the majory of s own voters, ” the nservative gay advocy group said a statement Tuday. Liberal stat began difyg same-sex marriage to law, and more gay and lbian upl gaed accs to the stutn.

The followg year, Oh Senator Rob Portman beme the first stg GOP Senator to announced support for same-sex marriage legalizatn, sharg that his son was gay. “They’ll say somethg like, ‘I personally don’t support gay marriage, but ’s settled law, so we’re not gog to addrs that. Moran says he rpond that he needs to go to gay and lbian voters the fall and tell them that the Republin Party has their back, and if the GOP vote unt for this bill is low, mak that msagg substantially more difficult.

Reports that the Democratic Party may add support for gay marriage to s party platform are keepg wh a signifint shift of opn on this issue among Democrats natnwi. Jt four years ago, 2008, only half (50%) of Democrats favored allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, while 42% were opposed. Support for gay marriage among Democrats has jumped to 65% today, more than double the percentage that is opposed (29%).

THE FAL THREE: THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

The latt natnal survey by the Pew Rearch Center’s Fom on Relign & Public Life and the Pew Rearch Center for the People & the Prs, nducted June 28-July 9, 2012, among 2, 973 adults, fds that the partisan divi over gay marriage ntu to win. Jt 24% of Republins now favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, which is only slightly higher than the percentage of Republins who supported gay marriage 2008 (19%).