NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court's ruling last month legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide has left Americans sharply divided, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that suggests support for gay unions may be down slightly from earlier this year.
The poll also found a near-even split over whether local officials with religious objections should be required to issuemarriage licenses to same-sex couples, with 47 percent saying that should be the case and 49 percent say they should be exempt.
Overall, if there's a conflict, a majority of those questioned think religious liberties should win out over gay rights, according to the poll. While 39 percent said it's more important for the government to protect gay rights, 56 percent said protection of religious liberties should take precedence.
The poll was conducted July 9 to July 13, less than three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled states cannot ban same-sex marriage.
According to the poll, 42 percent support same-sex marriage and 40 percent oppose it. The percentage saying they favor legal same-sex marriage in their state was down slightly from the 48 percent who said so in an April poll. In January, 44 percent were in favor.
Lols this report is a messy lie. It doesn't go with any other recent studies on support on gay marriage in US. Especially, this recent one:
(PewResearch is like THE King of Surveys on Political & Social Opinions)
I've never seen any other studies with a rate of acceptance so low, and it's clearly not the truth when 36/50 states had gay marriage prior to SCOTUS their ruling.
How do we know that the 1004 participants were truly representative of the US population though?
The paragraph below the article also specifically states that they were all adults. What was the age range then? Were young adults polled in this survey as well?
it's clearly not the truth when 36/50 states had gay marriage prior to SCOTUS their ruling.
Just because government officials made it legal in those states, does not mean that all the people within said state approve. But this whole article does seem fishy, IA.
And ugh this "religious freedom" trend is not cute. A bunch practitioners of the majority religion thinking their rights are being infringed or something... Muslim, Jewish, etc Americans should take over the dialogue surrounding religious freedom; they're the ones actually facing discrimination for their beliefs.
Many polls say different things, people will move on as the years go by and realize nothing changed because their teacher and gardener gay neighbors got married.
Of course, the usual anti-gay losers will keep on their dishonest shenanigans and fringe politics (how else will they get votes anyway...) like they do with abortion, but both of these issues are very different. You can firmly identify a victim in abortion, but not in a marriage.