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- U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%
- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%
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.
Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults. 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.
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level. 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.