Gallup Poll: 71% US Want Legal Gay Marriage
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- GALLUP POLL: 71% US WANT LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
- AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
GALLUP POLL: 71% US WANT LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE
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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.
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.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn. * american polls on gay marriage *
The Public Relign Rearch Instute (PRRI) found 2021 that 48 percent of GOP voters supported gay marriage, while 50 percent opposed.
In s new poll, Gallup also found that the primary mographic holdout agast marriage equaly are Amerins who attend church weekly, 58 percent of whom are opposed to gay marriage. Among some groups, like Mlims and Orthodox Christians, about half of rponnts supported gay marriage. Young adults, Democrats among the groups most supportive of gay marriage.
AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
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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. 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.