Fifty-three percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, a Gallup poll showed on Friday, a marked reversal from just a year ago when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony.
Is that really how it was worded? Because "gay marriage" isn't illegal now. Nobody is arrested for getting "married" without a bride or without a groom. I would expect that most people would support this freedom of association – that people should be able to live with the person they want and have a ceremony.
The percentage of Republicans favoring same-sex matrimony held steady at 28 percent.
I'm thinking the writer doesn't know the meaning of the word "matrimony". Or maybe those Republicans only support two women raising children together.
Same-sex marriage remains a highly contested issue in U.S. politics, but homosexual couples have won the right to legally wed in five states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa -- and the District of Columbia. Gay couples have faced setbacks elsewhere, and no statewide initiative to legalize gay marriage has ever won a majority vote.
But the marriage neutering advocates will still pretend that there's this unstoppable wave of support for neutering marriage, hoping more people will believe it.
Twenty-nine states have adopted constitutional amendments restricting marriage as between a man and a woman, and 12 other states have passed laws to that effect, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
In Minnesota, a proposal to put a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage before voters in 2012 gained momentum [in May] when it passed the state Senate.
The erroneous "ban" language is used multiple times in the article, of course.
Here's Andrew Malcolm's report at LATimes.com.
Thanks to a radical shift in thinking among independents and Democrats during the past year, for the first time in Gallup Poll tracking a clear majority of Americans now approves of gay marriage.
There's a difference between approving of "gay marriage" and supporting the neutering of state marriage licenses, despite what certain activists say.
A new Gallup Poll released this morning finds that this month 53% of Americans say same-sex marriage should be recognized in law as equally valid with traditional male-female marriages.
Uhm, California's domestic partnerships do that on a state level.
The spurt in support of 9% in the past 12 months was the largest registered since Gallup first tracked the topic in 1996. Back then, only 27% supported [neutering] marriage and two-thirds opposed.
Must be the influence of Bush's daughter, or maybe that guy from Star Trek. I always base my opinions on very important policy matters on the opinions of celebrities, after all.
Support for [neutering] marriage is higher among Catholics than Protestants, among the unmarried and among those who attend church less frequently.
No surprises there. "Catholic" in this case means someone with a Catholic parent, or who was baptized in a Catholic ceremony as a baby.
Look, it is always easier to go along with the fascists, especially when they have the media, academia, courtrooms, and other institutions doing their bidding. Publicly state that you think state marriage licensing should retain a bride+groom requirement and you get: boycotted; bizarre, shrill, sometimes violent and destructive protesters outside your home, business, or place of worship; hung in effigy; fired; flunked; hounded off campus; mocked in the media and theatre; and accused of murder. Publicly repeat the catchphrases "freedom to marry" or "marriage equality", bogus as they are, and you'll get lots of free positive press and probably free theatre tickets and designer handbags.
Hey, but what have we heard over and over again? Rights aren't decided by majority opinion. How come none of marriage neutering advocates were quoted with that line this time?
Yes, we need to keep making our case as to which state marriage licensing should stick to licensing only marriages as marriage.
Was this poll conducted directly vox humana, or by robocall. Recall that several months ago pollster Scott Rasmussen used the latter method, and by this method got a response 57% to 33% against neutering marriage.
ReplyDeleteAgain, the more the media drums the message into people's heads that you can't be opposed to neutering marriage and be a decent person, the less reliable direct polls using a real human questioner will be.