A gay print? The majory of Amerins believe the untry isn't ready | CNN Polics

Contents:

• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• IS THE COUNTRY READY FOR A GAY PRINT? DON’T TST THE POLLS
• A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
• IS AMERI—AND THE RT OF THE WORLD—READY FOR A GAY PRINT?
• POLL: VOTERS SPL ON WHETHER UNTRY IS READY FOR A GAY PRINT
• LGBT LAWMAKERS SAY NATN IS READY FOR GAY PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT
• PLURALY OF VOTERS SAY THEY'RE READY FOR A GAY PRINT BUT AMERI IS NOT: POLL
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay U.

On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today.

WATCH: Is Ameri Ready to Elect a Gay Print?

IS THE COUNTRY READY FOR A GAY PRINT? DON’T TST THE POLLS

“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said. LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns. The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man.

A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY

“If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton. Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. Frank is the thor of “Awakeng: How Gays and Lbians Brought Marriage Equaly to Ameri.

” As Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., has surged to a top posn Iowa polls the Democratic printial primary, media reports have emerged warng that his sexualy may yet rail his Whe Hoe bid. A recent natnal Poli/Morng Consult poll found that a pluraly of voters, 45 percent, thk the untry is not ready for an openly gay print, wh only 40 percent sayg ’s ready.

Consultants have chimed to say the mayor may be ls electable than astal el realize bee he’s gay.

IS AMERI—AND THE RT OF THE WORLD—READY FOR A GAY PRINT?

Ordary voters are quoted sayg they — or their “vout Christian” mother — “would never vote for a gay. Ncerns tells a utnary tale about how to terpret claims by voters that they won’t support an openly gay ndidate for print. In 2008, a Milary Tim survey noted that 24 percent of service members said they would not want to serve alongsi gay or lbian troops.

Poll of the week: A new Qunipiac Universy poll fds that 70% of voters (cludg 86% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) say they are open to electg a gay print. The same poll also disvered, however, that only 36% of voters (cludg 40% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) thk the Uned Stat is ready to elect a gay print. He is a married gay man.

It’s also possible that some voters are not willg to adm to homophobia, while signalg by sayg sentially, “I’m ready, but others may not be. I should note that pollg on whether the untry is ready for a gay print differs signifintly om pollg on whether Amerins thought the untry was ready for a black print 2007 or a woman print 2015. Intertgly, all three stanc, more voters said they were ready for a black, female or gay print than thought the untry was ready for one.

POLL: VOTERS SPL ON WHETHER UNTRY IS READY FOR A GAY PRINT

But even if Amerins are more tolerant of gay Amerins than voters thk they are, more are prejudiced agast gay Amerins than they were agast black Amerins 2007 or women 2014. Today, about a quarter of all voters (cludg 10% of Democrats) told Qunipiac that they weren’t open to vote for a gay man for print.

LGBT LAWMAKERS SAY NATN IS READY FOR GAY PRINT

Prejudice agast gay Amerins is evint other pollg as well. About 35% of Amerins openly admted the 2018 General Social Survey that they thought “homosexual sex relatns” were almost always or always wrong. Now, Amerins have certaly bee more fortable wh the ia of a gay print than they ed to be.

The percentage of Amerins who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up 15-20 pots sce 2007, pendg on the poll you look at. The percentage of Democrats who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up around 25 pots.

Further, ’s possible that if Buttigieg be succsful on the mpaign trail, then Amerins may bee even more open to the ia of a gay print. From the Op-Ed pag of the New York Tim to CNN’s The Suatn Room, Print Jimmy Carter’s recent claim on Big Thk that Ameri is fact ready to elect a gay Commanr--Chief sometime “ the near future” created que the media stir.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT

However, as polil mentator Andrew Sullivan pots out, Ameri may very well have already had a gay print — or two. As part of our latt seri, A Gay Whe Hoe?, Fred Karger sat down wh Big Thk to talk ndidly about his chanc of beg the 45th Print of the Uned Stat.

PLURALY OF VOTERS SAY THEY'RE READY FOR A GAY PRINT BUT AMERI IS NOT: POLL

Karger, who plans to n as an “Inpennt Republin, ” says there’s nothg ntradictory about beg gay and Republin, spe the unfortunate realy that many lears of the Republin Party have led efforts agast gay marriage.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

“There is a Vany Fair/CBS poll that showed over 50% of the public supports the ncept of an openly gay print, ” says Karger.

”If Karger officially announc his bid for the princy this Sprg, makg the him the first openly gay man to ever n for the posn, he isn’t so sure how right-leang talk show hosts like Rh Limbgh and Glenn Beck will react. This past May, the Print of the Iowa Christian Alliance Steve Scheffler sent Karger a terse email, warng him that “the radil homosexual muny” and he were “not wele the state of Iowa. Another qutn is whether the rt of the world is ready for a gay U.

Print: “There are laws the books many untri, the ath penalty about 19 untri for beg gay, ” Karger adms. Whether they are Republins or Democrats, men or women, Karger says there are plenty of closeted gay people polics all over the Uned Stat.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

The ma reason he is nsirg nng for Print is to teach young people that ’s okay to be gay: “Relign is the culpr here teachg people that this is wrong. As the Democratic Party fields s first ser printial ntenr who is openly gay, half of Amerin voters say that they personally are ready for a gay or lbian print, but are spl about whether the untry as a whole is ready.

Acrdg to a POLITICO/Morng Consult poll of registered voters, 50 percent of rponnts said they were eher fely or probably ready to have a manr chief who is openly gay, pared wh 37 percent who said they were eher fely or probably not voters were more psimistic when asked whether they thought the untry was ready for an openly gay print — 40 percent said they thought the untry was ready, wh 44 percent sayg the untry was not gap grew even wir when voters were asked whether they thought their neighbors were ready for a gay print.

About a quarter of rponnts answered affirmatively, while 46 percent said their neighbors were eher fely or probably not ready for a gay print. Plurali of both Democrats and Republins, as well as pennts, all said they did not believe that their neighbors were ready for a gay POLITICO/Morng Consult survey rults are far om hypothetil.