Polls: Opposition to 'gay marriage' on rise

Navy Pride said:

Disney Dude keep saying more and more people in this country are embracing Gay Marriage..These two polls (one a Gallup) say otherwise.

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That would quite an embellishment to say that the Gallup poll says otherwise, when in fact it doesn't show much of a change at all. In fact, within the last 10 years, it shows the exact opposite of what you are claiming. Support for gay marriage has increased quite a bit within the last decade. From the Gallup poll your article cites:



"PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' views on same-sex marriage have essentially stayed the same in the past year, with a majority of 57% opposed to granting such marriages legal status and 40% in favor of doing so. Though support for legal same-sex marriage is significantly higher now than when Gallup first asked about it in 1996, in recent years support has appeared to stall, peaking at 46% in 2007."

While in the short term support for gay marriage may decline, Gallup polls indicate that over the long term, support for gay marriage will likely surpass those who oppose it (note the 18-29 bracket):



"Younger Americans have typically been much more supportive of same-sex marriage than older Americans, and that is the case in the current poll. A majority of 18- to 29-year-olds think gay or lesbian couples should be allowed to legally marry, while support reaches only as high as 40% among the three older age groups."

If this trend continues, we may likely see gay marriage take hold in more states as the difference gets smaller and smaller.

Source: Majority of Americans Continue to Oppose Gay Marriage

dclxvinoise said:

Your source is hardly unbiased. Regardless, the polling numbers may shift slightly up and down, but this is an issue that isn't going to go away. People will continue to fight for their rights until they get them just like any other civil rights issue. I'm sure you don't see this as a civil rights issue, but that doesn't change the fact that this issue is going to stay at the forefront.

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First what Right is that?
Second which Civil Right is being violated?

The answer is none....fact that you and many others in this crowd continue to misuse Rights in catchy lines like that is abhorrent. It tells me some of you have no case whatsoever and do not know what your talking about at all.

disneydude said:

*As long as it supports what I want it to say....otherwise I will call them "A biased pollster that only polls liberals"


Right Navy?

Keep that finger in the hole in the dam.....

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Gallup is biased because they don't back your liberal views on gay marriage............your a real piece of work DD.

I have often said that the government has no right trying to define relationships and should not. As someone suggested CA may decide to remove the definition of marriage and let churches decide what is considered marriage, the state would only issue a "union" permit. I think this is what the entire country should do. Leave it to the people to determin there own definition of marrige and who they chose to marry.

Navy Pride said:

Gallup is biased because they don't back your liberal views on gay marriage............your a real piece of work DD.

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Except that the Gallup poll does not support what you said. As Singularity has pointed out, the Gallup poll shows that support for gay marriage over time has significently gone up. 5% in ten years and 13% since 1995. In the early portion of 2007, objection to gay marriage compared to 1995 fell 15%. That's materially relevant. While the Gallup poll does not suggest that in the past few years that support for gay marriage is gaining huge support, your argument is dishonest based upon your own cited poll.

Furthermore, Nate Silver, who has proven himself to be one of the best pollsters and analysts has shown that gay marriage bans are becoming harder and harder to pass which suggests you are again wrong. And he bases his analysis on Gallup polls, which you yourself have declared useless when they showed Obama leading McCain.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Will Iowans Uphold Gay Marriage?

Navy Pride said:

Gallup is biased because they don't back your liberal views on gay marriage............your a real piece of work DD.

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You're the one who flip flops back and forth about Rasmussen being biased and being the most respected pollster depending on the results of their polls.......

You don't have THAT short of a memory now do you?