Support For Gay Marriage Jumps 11 Points In One Month
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.)
Tags: Gay Marriage, Gay Rights
Perhaps, David A. can offer some insight?
He would but his head just exploded.
We just might see Newt Gingrich get to six marriages in our lifetime.
What happened? That’s a huge change in a short amount of time, was it Iowa? Miss CA? The tragic NOM commercial?
It was reruns of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy.
“We just might see Newt Gingrich get to six marriages in our lifetime.”
I’m halfway there with three. This passes I might get to 6 🙂
Miss California isn’t having an impact on Saving Marriage?
C’mon Mark, you can beat Gingrich!
Well, the only guys on my list are Daniel Craig and Russell Crowe. 🙂 Suppose I could slum a bit and add another.
Alec Baldwin. Just sayin’
The fascinating question is ‘why’. Here’s ‘bulo’s take.
For the Rethugs, it was never about gay marriage per se, it was about a wedge issue that could be counted on for a Pavlovian response, especially at the ballot box.
While the dogwhistle evangelical Puritans are beyond reach, ‘bulo thinks that the collapse of the construct that somehow the Rethugs were credible has freed many to look at this issue pragmatically. And, more and more, people are realizing that it simply doesn’t matter.
The ‘sanctity’ of their own marriages aren’t at stake. They have friends and neighbors who are gay, and they’re looking at them differently now, and they’re just friends and neighbors.
They see the issue for what it is/was. An attempt to use scare tactics to divide people. Those days are over.
I wonder if, ironically, the CA passage of Prop 8 made people take a second look. There was a lot of misinformation in that, mainly being spread by the LDS church.
Good choices, Mark. What about George Clooney and Johnny Depp?
I guess so 🙂
El Somnambulo is talking about a “hey the emperor is buck naked!” effect that is sweeping the country with regard to conservatism.
The jig, my good friends, is up.
When a poll contradicts its own results and that of reality it is called an outlier this is especially not surprising with one of the most inaccurate polling firms. In other words it is wrong. Keep grasping for straws. Even in this poll, the strong majority oppose redefining marriage.
The fact is that the marriage issue isn’t particularly controversial. About a third of people support changing it. The GOP should change itself to represent the minority or it is in trouble. That sounds like you are afraid that your position won’t stand up.
No, Ignorant Man, you’re the one who’s the outlier. This is why quoting a 2006 poll as you did earlier is whistling past the graveyard. Attitudes are changing quickly — except, of course, among the ignorant who believe the grab-bag of biased bullshit evangelicals have cherry-picked from the Bible.
Calling a homosexual relationship a marriage is like calling a steer a bull; he appreciates the honor, but would be better off having returned to him what’s rightfully his.
1) It is nothing like that, and
2) give Ben Franklin props when you quote him.