Via kos:
NY Times/CBS News Poll. 4/22-26. Adults. MoE 3% (3/12-16 results)
Which comes closest to your view? Gay couples should be allowed to legally marry. OR, Gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry. OR, There should be no legal recognition of a gay couple’s relationship.
Legal Marraige 42 (33)
Civil Unions 25 (27)
No Legal Recognition 28 (35)
That’s quite a leap. And here’s a bigger surprise… “The biggest gain over this past month came among Republicans, who went from 6 to 18 percent support for gay marriage.” And this… “In a survey last fall by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Inc., 58 percent of white evangelicals ages 18 to 29 said they support either civil unions or gay marriage; support dropped to 46 percent among white evangelicals who were older than that.”
Now, I have heard some murmurs in Republican circles claiming they need to soften their stance on gay marriage/civil unions. I’m not sure how they’re going to accomplish that. Perhaps, David A. can offer some insight?
( Psst… In case you’re wondering, it doesn’t matter one iota whether or not the Republican Party changes it platform on this issue. Irrelevancy is so tragic.)