CNN poll: More Americans favor same-sex marriage

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A CNN first: Poll finds more Americans favor same-sex marriage
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/19/poll-more-americans-favor-same-sex-marriage/


Support for same-sex marriage has received a boost, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey released Tuesday.

The poll indicates that more than half of all Americans believe that marriages between gay or lesbian couples should be legally valid. With 51 percent of respondents saying that same-sex marriages should be legal, it is the first time that a CNN poll has found majority support for same-sex marriage.

Full results (pdf)

Although more Americans agree on this issue, a generation-and gender-gap still remains. Sixty percent of Americans under 50 support same-sex marriage, but only four in ten of those over 50 feel the same. More than half of men are against legalizing marriage between gay or lesbian couples, but 57 percent of women are in favor of it.

There's also a partisan divide on the issue. "More than six in 10 Democrats support same sex marriage, joined by more than half of independents, but seven in 10 Republicans are against it," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

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1. Future U.S. History Students: 'It's Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay

Marriage:

The classroom of 15-year-olds at MacArthur High School—all of whom were born in the late 2060s and grew up never questioning the obvious fact that homosexual couples deserve the right to get married—were reportedly "amazed" to learn in their Modern U.S. History: 2081 Edition textbooks that as late as the 2020s, gays and lesbians actually had to fight for the constitutional right to wed.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-us-history-students-its-pretty-embarrassing,19099/

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2. One gay President and Obama becomes an ironic footnote

in the future books. "His own parents marriage recently had been illegal for the same bigoted reasons, yet he opposed equality for others. The times were differnt, but Obama was in the minority when he still insisted that God's view is that gays are not 'sanctified'" The classrooms will erupt in laughter at the folly of the antique Obama prejudices.

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3. One openly gay president.