Majority of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage::: true or false? what do u think?
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A majority of Americans — 54% — say same-sex marriages should be legally recognized, while 42% are opposed, according to a CNN/ORC International Survey released Wednesday.
The poll showed a sharp partisan divide on the issue, with seven in 10 Democrats as well as six in 10 independent voters saying same-sex marriages should be legal, and 72% of Republicans opposed.
President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage in an ABC News interview in early May, but Mitt Romney says he does not support gay marriage or civil unions.
The poll results come the day after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco declined to revisit its earlier decision that ruled California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional and said gay and lesbian couples could marry.
The poll also found that the number of Americans who say they know somebody who is gay has jumped from 49% in 2010 to 60% now.
The CNN poll was conducted by ORC International from May 29-31, with 1,009 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, with a sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.
Top Opinion
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lin sugar lips 2012/06/06 12:01:50false
it does not even win in the blue liberal states of New England
is it okay for a parent to spank their child or is beating a kid child abuse?
most will say you can spank, everyone will say beating is a use,ego they report everyone os against spanking
My hope is that this trend is fostered well by the pro-gay marriage side. This discussion usually ends up falling into a faith based or party based shouting match. And yes, I know full well that the hardcore religious and the hard core Republicans are the problem because they are vocal and nasty.
But the pro-gay marriage side needs to be the bigger person on this one. You don't get to 54% national approval without getting some support from people of faith and conservatives. I'm one of them. I'm basically Lutheran and I lean to the right. But I support gay marriage.
Thing is that I'm put off when people generalize about people of faith or conservatives as hate mongers or nazis or whatever. I feel that rhetoric isn't helpful and its generally used for broader political motives and undermines the issue at hand.
My suggestion is to promote gay marriage in the best postive way possible and to leave the devisive rhetoric aside. If you need to single out the obnoxious hardcore groups then make sure to use targeted language to isolate them. Its better to target language and put those nuts in a 10% minority rather than to generalize and apply your statements.to a broad 40-50% base thats includes people starting to change their mind.
Let's come together on this.
Voicing opposition to "gay marriage" is something that many people are unwilling to do publicly. This is due to the intimidation of "gay marriage" supporters, and the name-calling that supporters of traditional marriage must endure from those who call them "bigots" and "hateful" and "intolerant."
As such, a pro-traditional marriage person, when called by a pollster who presumably knows their phone number and possibly their address, may say they are okay with "gay marriage" -- when they really are not.
I simply cannot believe that opposition to "gay marriage" has gone from being a solid majority opinion to just a 42% opinion in such a short period of time. That makes no sense, especially given that "gay marriage" is 0 for 31 in binding referendums held in numerous states.
There are logical reasons.
Just because you may not want to hear the reasons, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
"Gay marriage" fans say that a lot. They constantly say "there is no good reason for disagreeing with us."
Besides being a parroted and unoriginal argument, it's also a hostile and intolerant one. Claiming a monopoly on logic and "rightness" doesn't cast one in a very logical light.
If you don't support gay marriage, you are more than welcome to not participate in one. I don't see how same sex couples marrying has any effect on your life.
And if a pollster calls their house, they may presume that the pollsters know their phone number and maybe even their address.
As such, they may not be willing to say "no" to "gay marriage" even if that's their true opinion on the subject. So, out of fear of being a victim of intolerance from the champions of tolerance, they may say "yes."
Also beware of internet polls. Okay for fun, but not very "scientific." For almost never, is the actual voting sample, a representative sample of the general population. And it is possible that internet polls may be tracked. Notice how many forums "remember" your vote? That means it's lurking in some database, that government snoops might someday, for some strange reason, take interest in. As if they didn't have enough of their own business to manage?
Some internet polls allow "multiple voting" without meaning to. Especially if you don't have to "log in" to place a vote. That likely suggests that votes are not very carefully tracked, can't be traced back to the original voters, and that the results, should never be considered to be "scientific."
I like voting in internet polls, because it's an easy way to get my views, more promoted and heard. And I have views on almost everything.