Opposition to same-sex marriage narrow and concentrated, study finds

[alp227]

(Tried posting at LBN but was locked for not meeting SOP of LBN. So re-posting here.)

Exit polls and other surveys from last year’s election suggest that resistance to same-sex marriage is shrinking and mainly concentrated among certain segments of the population: older people, white evangelical Christians and non-college-educated whites.

That is the analysis of a new study of the data by two pollsters, one a Democrat and the other a Republican.

“Significant opposition to the freedom to marry is increasingly isolated within narrow demographic groups while a much broader and more diverse majority are ready to let same-sex couples marry,” wrote Joel Benenson, who led President Obama’s polling operation in 2008 and 2012, and Jan van Lohuizen, who did the same job for former president George W. Bush.

Their research, which will be released Thursday, was commissioned by Freedom to Marry, an organization that promotes establishing a national right to same-sex marriage. It is a follow-up to a May 2011 report in which the pollsters found that support for such unions was accelerating, starting around 2009.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/opposition-to-same-sex-marriage-narrow-and-concentrated-study-finds/2013/03/06/99bfc3cc-8688-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html

[pinto]

1. Good article and overview of the surveys. I like this statement -

In an interview, Benenson ( Joel Benenson, who led President Obama’s polling operation in 2008 and 2012) said the study suggests that lawmakers and candidates who embrace such unions are not likely to be punished politically, because “the American people are already there.”

[LonePirate]

5. Two cities here w/50K residents in 2012 voted to repeal citywide ENDA protections for LGBT citizens

An anti-marriage equality stance is practically a ticket to political success in my state (KS).

The rapid change in other areas of the country is moving with the speed of molasses where I live. I suspect the same is true for many other red states.

[RKP5637]

2. Thanks for posting this!!! It's getting better!!!

[uppityperson]

3. Thanks, interesting article. I am so looking forward to when this won't be an issue.

[ZombieHorde]

4. Good news. Sucks we're not already there, but it's just a matter of time now. nt

[SpartanDem]

6. “it will lead quickly to the collapse of the Republican Party,...

causing a core constituency to leave for a third party or to renounce politics"".

We can only hope. I'm not anti-religion, but I hate these fundy assholes

[Scuba]

7. Especially the "narrow" part.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. So, the Teabaggers?

Go figure.