Thread: BREAKING: CURRENT EVENT A Majority of Americans DO NOT support gay marriage. WAPO

This just in, May 14, 2012:

Does a majority of Americans really support gay marriage? Maybe not.

Does a majority of the country really support gay marriage?

As is often true in polling, it depends on how you ask the question.

A Gallup poll last week showed that 51 percent of Americans support gay marriage, but a CBS News/New York Times poll out today shows that only 38 percent support it.

The difference: Gallup gave voters just two options — support or oppose — while the CBS/NYT poll added a third, civil unions..

....When given that third choice, polls show that it draws significantly from both the pro-gay marriage and anti-gay marriage camps, but in the end, overall support for gay marriage drops well below a majority.

Mostly, though, it just shows how mushy the middle is on this issue. While there are certainly passionate supporters and opponents, there are just as many people who are lukewarm (as evidenced by a Gallup poll last week). And their responses are highly dependent on how the question is asked. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...7CPU_blog.html

The article goes on to discuss how if polling is done asking people if they prefer civil unions instead they opt for that compromise. Adding those who are opposed to gay marriage outright to those who prefer civil unions to gay marriage a clear majority is seen to be against gay marriage.

How do you feel? Vote before this topic is selectively removed from current events, which it very much is and one of the most viewed topics on PF.

Here for instance, out of 67 voters [a very high participation # for PF] 85% voted against promoting a "gay hero" to kids in California schools. Californians Set to Boycott Harvey Milk Day 85% in political terms is what you would call a landslide majority.

Yet we are constantly fed misinformation that "a majority of Americans" support gay inroads into mainstream cultural mores, like marriage.. There's something fishy in Denmark.

Its aleady a known fact a majority do support it. This thread is a lie and should be deleted.

Option 5: "Civil Unions only for both gays and straights".

OOOOOH another bash the gays thread.

Maybe people should mind their own business, and live their own lives. I don't know maybe get a hobby.

Obsession.

I support equality, as do I think the majority

As your poll didn't include a "support getting government(s) out of the marriage business altogether" option, I couldn't vote.

Originally Posted by Silhouette

This just in, May 14, 2012:




The article goes on to discuss how if polling is done asking people if they prefer civil unions instead they opt for that compromise. Adding those who are opposed to gay marriage outright to those who prefer civil unions to gay marriage a clear majority is seen to be against gay marriage.

How do you feel? Vote before this topic is selectively removed from current events, which it very much is and one of the most viewed topics on PF.

Its painfully obvious you are correct.

31 states have laws against gay marriage. For those a little slow that would be a majority of states

33 direct votes on gay marriage by the people in the United States. All of them voted against gay marriage.

The majority have spoken.

Homosexuality has never been proven to be anything more than a choice either therefore it cannot be equated to things that are genetic like race and heterosexuality no matter how hard the far left wants to.

The most hysterical claim the militant far left makes is that they support "rights" and "equality" but when you point out there are other sexual preferences they don't like those don't get these new "rights" or "equality" and they try to hide behind current law that bans those sexual practices while having the intellectual dishonesty to pretend that doesn't fly in the face of their desire to ban laws that ban gay marriage right now.


And of course when you point out these facts the gay militants resort immediately to name calling because they can't debate them. homophobe, bigot etc. all moronic attempts to avoid the truth they can't debate the facts.

Originally Posted by texmaster

Its painfully obvious you are correct.

31 states have laws against gay mairriage. For those a little slow that would be a majority of states

33 direct votes on gay marriage by the people in the United States. All of them voted against gay marriage.

The majority have spoken.

And the constitution has this thing called the full faith and credit clause that requires all states to recognize public records from all other states.
Marriage is a public record. So a marriage in Mass has to be recognized in Miss.
DOMA blatantly goes against the constitution, and will fall, this will require same sex marriage to be recognized in every state.