News: UCLA Study: 81.5% of College Freshmen Back Marriage Equality

Espresso

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In its annual American Freshman Survey, UCLA researchers polled over 150,000 incoming freshmen at 227 colleges and universities. [2014's] result on marriage:

The survey last asked about same-sex marriage in 2012. In the interim, support for same-sex couples having the legal right to marry has increased 6.5 percentage points to 81.5%. This increase covers a span of time where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s state ban on same-sex marriage. Additionally, since these Supreme Court decisions, state-level same-sex marriage bans have fallen across the country in U.S. Circuit and District courts; as of January 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up four pending cases from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Figure 10 breaks support for same-sex marriage down by political ideology. The findings show that only students who identify as “far right” do not support same-sex marriage. Just 44.3% of students identified as “far right” either “agreed somewhat” or “agreed strongly” that same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry. This figure contrasts with 56.6% of “conservative” students, 84.7% of “middle-of-the-road” students, 93.9% of “liberal” students, and 90.5% of “far left” students. It is clear that same-sex marriage is no longer an issue for the vast majority of entering college freshmen.

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BudBud

im not surprised, college is the time for experimentation after all

rihannabiggestfan

Shouldn't "far left" be higher % than liberal?

That's good tho, it really is 2015

Goosey

Interesting but I'm not sure 227 is a definitive sample size.

I wonder what would happen if they polled people over 60?

Tymps.

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It is clear that same-sex marriage is no longer an issue for the vast majority of entering college freshmen.

What kind of load of BS... it said in the same damn paragraph that less than half of the far right students even agreed somewhat that same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. That does not seem like a battle won to me in any sense of the word.

Reza

nnnn I go the UCLA. let me find a cute guy to marry on campus

Ichinaru19

In due time this will be the norm

Flare

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Originally posted by BudBud

im not surprised, college is the time for experimentation after all

What I came here to post.

Ofc the freshmans are open figuratively and literally.

Espresso

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Originally posted by rihannabiggestfan

Shouldn't "far left" be higher % than liberal?

That's good tho, it really is 2015

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Originally posted by Tymps.

What kind of load of BS... it said in the same damn paragraph that less than half of the far right students even agreed somewhat that same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. That does not seem like a battle won to me in any sense of the word.

The far left/right were smaller samples that tended to wither make states' rights argument or disagreed with marriage as an institution entirely. This is a number's game, not winning over the un-winnable with this argument.

BudBud

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Originally posted by Flare

What I came here to post.

Ofc the freshmans are open figuratively and literally.

i never got the hazing they do tbh, its 'straight' guys doing some of the most homoerotic things ive heard

Goosey

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Originally posted by BudBud

i never got the hazing they do tbh, its 'straight' guys doing some of the most homoerotic things ive heard

So are those videos on ****hub actual hazings?

revel8

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Originally posted by Tymps.

What kind of load of BS... it said in the same damn paragraph that less than half of the far right students even agreed somewhat that same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. That does not seem like a battle won to me in any sense of the word.

On page 22 of the report, it says that almost half of all the interviewed students identified as being 'middle of the road' in terms of political ideology. So those 5 groups by political ideology are not of equal size. The report says the biggest group numerically is 'middle of the road' and 84.7% of them agree to marriage equality. We don't know how big the group for far-right students was. Possibly a very small percentage of students and even almost half of that group agree with marriage equality.

I thought only fascists call themselves 'Far-Right' anyway. Maybe it is different in the US.

The Far-Right group are probably Neo-Nazis or similar. Their world views are likely to be quite messed up anyway. No point complaining that the racial supremacists have views that seem 'problematic'. It is no surprise that there are few good Nazis.

iseeyouupsidedown

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Originally posted by Tymps.

What kind of load of BS... it said in the same damn paragraph that less than half of the far right students even agreed somewhat that same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. That does not seem like a battle won to me in any sense of the word.

Sis it says the vast majority.. Not everyone.

chilicheese01

I'm surprised it's not higher tbh.

Xtinafan 99

No surprise there, California college students tend to be liberal for the most part. Adding on to that, the ratio of college students is 60:40 in favor of women, who, lbr tend to be far more supportive of same sex marriage than straight guys are.