Huntsman’s Posns on Gay Rights Are Wh the G.O.P. Mastream | FiveThirtyEight

Contents:

• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY HUNTSMAN
• HUNTSMAN’S POSNS ON GAY RIGHTS ARE WH THE G.O.P. MASTREAM
• EXCLIVE: BOB GAY LEAVG HUNTSMAN GAY
• WAS ORN, THE HUNTSMAN, GAY?
• JON HUNTSMAN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY HUNTSMAN

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HUNTSMAN’S POSNS ON GAY RIGHTS ARE WH THE G.O.P. MASTREAM

From the grief and outrage I experienced I was spired to jo the effort to advote for full civil rights for gay people, marriage rights particular. He also worked for Huntsman Gay Global Capal, a venture pal fund that the Huntsman fay helped create, but no longer has an active role . Huntsman’s posns on gay rights — while to the left of most of his opponents — are likely to be among the least of his ncerns.

EXCLIVE: BOB GAY LEAVG HUNTSMAN GAY

Huntsman’s views on gay rights are very close to those of the typil Republin voter — closer than those of someone like Tim Pawlenty. Huntsman endorsed civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage. He is perhaps the most noteworthy potential Republin ndidate to have done so, although the libertarian-leang Gary Johnson shar his posn, and a mor ndidate, Fred Karger, supports full marriage rights for gay and lbian upl.

Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Mch Daniels and Michele Bachmann, explicly oppose both civil unns and gay marriage, acrdg to rearch piled by the liberal-leang Center for Amerin Progrs Actn Fund.

Others, like Sarah Pal and Mt Romney, are exprsly opposed to gay marriage, but have ambiguo posns on civil unns. The database lists eight surveys sce 2004 which Republins were asked to pick between three alternativ: gay marriage, civil unns, and no legal regnn.

WAS ORN, THE HUNTSMAN, GAY?

Acrdg to the most recent survey — om CBS News Augt 2010 — jt 37 percent of Republin voters hold the posn that gay upl should have no legal regnn. Instead, 59 percent of Republins supported eher civil unns or gay marriage. The broar trend, neverthels, suggts that only about 45 percent of the Republin electorate will be opposed to any form of legal regnn for gay upl by the time the first primari take place early 2012.

JON HUNTSMAN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE

Civil unns had gaed currency as a centrist alternative between gay marriage and no legal regnn. But both advot and opponents of gay rights are creasgly turng their attentn to marriage self, meang that everyone om Mr.

In polls that prent a choice between gay marriage and no legal regnn — wh civil unns removed as an alternative — most Republin voters ntue to gravate toward the latter optn, wh 27 of Republin voters supportg gay marriage but 71 percent opposed a recent CNN survey. Neverthels, reporters — to say nothg of the ndidat themselv — ought not to assume that Republin voters reflexively gravate toward any and all posns agast gay rights.

A Gallup poll nducted last year found that 60 percent of Republins — and 53 percent of self-scribed nservativ — support allowg openly gay men and women to serve the ary.