A new CBS poll:
Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. That’s up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.Support for same sex marriage is now at its highest point since CBS News starting asking about it in 2004.
What should same-sex couples get?
| Poll Date | Marriage | Civil Unions | Nothing | Undecided |
| April, 2009 | 42 | 25 | 28 | 5 |
| August, 2008 | 34 | 22 | 39 | 5 |
| June, 2008 | 30 | 28 | 36 | 6 |
| March, 2004 | 22 | 33 | 40 | 5 |
This means that 67% of American voters think we should have civil unions or better. And the or better crowd is fast outstripping the civil unions crowd. (paying attention, Mr. President?).
The poll results Gary Randall released yesterday for Washington state, with 43% of Washington voters saying YES to marriage equality, seem to be right in line with national trends.
H/T Dan Savage




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I knew this day was coming…… but who knew it would be in 2009?
At this rate, at least half or more of the country will support marriage equality next year. This is what comes from non-LGBT people knowing LGBT people who have been legally married.
Still: wow.
That is an impressive jumpOnce you bust open a closet to confront the ignorant masses and they can’t say anything against it, there goes the intolerance. Most of the time intolerance isn’t based on anything so something as simple as someone being like “I’m ok with it” that someone can relate to can change an opinion drastically. Thank goodness for Iowa. A bunch of midwesterners looked at it, went “meh” and changed their views.
Civil UnionI’m for civil unions. I feel like the term marriage needs to be kept solely for man and woman but for gays civil unions is appropriate. I think calling it civil unions will soften the hardness of religious minds.
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Is it reasonable for me to interpret this poll as saying“A bill which repeals DOMA and states the government will recognize gay marriages and civil unions would have the support of 67% of the public”?
At least NOTHING is going down….
or is your real concernthat your hardness will soften? ;P
Here’s my Super Secret Prediction on that NOTHING figureIf the poll asked ‘What should gay couples get? Please pick one of these three’, the third option could be phrased ‘Hurled into an everlasting lake of fire’ and the results wouldn’t change too much.
At this point, having been exposed to all the happy normal families getting married, if you think those people deserve nothing it’s because your religious beliefs tell you that we’re sinners AND that the purpose of government is to make everyone ‘live right’.
We are approaching the floor on that ‘nothing’ option.
How do we know this? The Crazification Factor.
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Equality.I’m for equality. I feel you should call a thing exactly what it is or else you’re playing childish games for the benefit of a psychopathic minority who think they own something which isn’t theirs. I think calling a marriage a marriage will keep us all in the real world and I couldn’t care less about why somebody would object to that.
Churches are in the wedding business. The government is in the marriage business. The church needs to be kept separate from the government, as our founding fathers had the wisdom to pronounce CENTURIES ago.
I also wonder how much of that jump is a younger-skewing poll.I mean, I JUST started getting calls for political polling in the last few years, so in my late 20s, probably because I moved from right outside of Philadelphia to the center of the adjacent county.
At least some of that “20%” jump has to be the 20-somethings who now have their own apartments with landlines that are used for polling, or possibly though Net-based survey sites (I know I belong to a few, and sometimes social policy questions are put into surveys of other things, like electronics).
the problem is the legal mess caused by civil unionv calling it marriage. see NJ for one example. there ar eothers. The law tends to treat things that are called different names differently because that is the pressumption as to the intent of the law.
You also seem to have a problem separating what you believe from what the law should say. The legal question is one of equality under the law. I am not even getting into your historically inaccurate view about definitions of marriage. Because it has been definitions.
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