Majority of Americans now support gay marriage, survey finds

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Majority of Americans now support gay marriage, survey finds

WASHINGTON Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:02pm EST

(Reuters) - Support for gay marriage has surged in the United States in the decade since it first became legal in Massachusetts, with just over half of Americans now supporting the idea, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

The survey on attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people comes as U.S. lawmakers and courts are increasingly allowing same-sex couples to wed.

Some 53 percent of the 4,509 Americans surveyed by the Public Religion Research Institute said they supported gay marriage, up from 32 percent in 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize it.

PRRI Chief Executive Robert Jones said the poll joined a raft of other surveys showing that a majority of Americans back gay marriage.

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[WillParkinson]

1. Sigh. One day. Maybe.

They'll stop calling it freaking gay marriage and call it marriage equality.