Two years after the Supreme Court cisn that required stat to regnize same-sex marriag natnwi, support for allowg gays and lbians to marry legally is at s hight pot over 20 years of Pew Rearch Center pollg on the issue.
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- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
- U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
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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. The rults, released Monday, found jt 28 percent of rponnts oppose the right of gay upl to wed.
U.S. SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE STABLE, AT 63%
Support creased among this group, acrdg to PRRI, which found 41 percent of whe evangelils supported gay marriage a 2019 survey. Proponents outnumbered opponents for the first time 2009 — 49 percent to 46 percent — acrdg to an ABC News/Washgton Post numbers ntued to climb, pecially after the Supreme Court enshred the eedom of gay upl to marry natnwi 2015’s Obergefell v.
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.