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Gallup Finds Support For Gay Relationships Hits Record High At 64 Percent |
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Written by Instinct Staff |
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
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| Tags: gallup, polls, surveys, marriage equality, america, voters, same-sex, lgbt |
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The results of Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll (surveyed between May 5 and 8) has found that the highest number yet of responders support the legal recognition of LGBT couples.
The 2011 Gallup poll also finds that more Americans find gay relationships "morally acceptable" than in the past.
From Gallup:
Americans' support for legal gay relations has been as low as 32%, in 1986, but increased to 47% by 1989 and went above the majority level in 2001 for the first time. After peaking at 60% in May 2003,public support dropped that same year, likely as a backlash against a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law and gave gays and lesbians new legal protections in that state. By 2006, Americans returned to the more supportive level seen previously, and generally held there until the increase this year.
Americans are somewhat less likely to consider gay or lesbian relations to be morally acceptable than to say they should be legal. However, the 56% who consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable is the highest Gallup has measured since this question was first asked in 2001.
Though today's poll has the big-brand name Gallup behind it, it's just the latest in a line of surveys showing wider support for LGBT couples that have lead some major outlets to believe the Prop 8 battle will be swayed in the favor of love...
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