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Lady Freedom Returns

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Sun Jun 28, 2015, 07:11 PM Jun 2015

Hey 'CON'servatives! Read the Gallup Poll lately?

Record-High 60% of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage
by Justin McCarthy

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sixty percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on its constitutionality next month. This is up from 55% last year and is the highest Gallup has found on the question since it was first asked in 1996.

Public support for the legality of same-sex marriage first reached a majority in 2011, when 53% supported it. Since then, support has ranged from 48% to 55%. The five-percentage-point increase in this year's Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 6-10, is the largest year-to-year climb since 2011, when support rose by nine points.

Support for the legality of gay marriages in the U.S. has been a fast-changing trend. Just two decades ago, only 27% of Americans backed gay marriage, while 68% opposed. By 2005, the percentage in favor had increased by 10 points to 37%, and by 2010 it had reached 44%.


Read more @ http://www.gallup.com/poll/183272/record-high-americans-support-sex-marriage.aspx
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Hey 'CON'servatives! Read the Gallup Poll lately? (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2015 OP
Now that it is, I wonder if they'll keep doing the poll, and what future years' numbers will be. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #1
Conservatives do not believe in facts or science Gothmog Jun 2015 #2
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