Gallup Finds Majority of Americans Now Support Gay Marriage
- Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:56pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Today, Gallup released non-partisan research that shows majority support for gay marriage. The poll found that 53 percent of the American public supports legalizing gay marriage “with the same rights as traditional marriages.” Forty-five percent of Americans stand opposed:
This year’s nine-point increase in support for same-sex marriage is the largest year-to-year shift yet measured over this time period. Two-thirds of Americans were opposed to legalized same-sex marriage in 1996, with 27% in favor. By 2004, support had risen to 42% and, despite some fluctuations from year to year, stayed at roughly that level through last year.
Gallup isn’t the only group to find this monumental shift in public opinion. Another study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 51 percent favor legalizing gay marriage. This particular study also found that 56 percent of the public favors legalizing adoption for gay and lesbian couples (36 percent oppose doing so).
Back in March 2011, ABC News and The Washington Post noticed the same pattern:
From a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, support for gay marriage has grown to 53 percent today. Forty-four percent are opposed, down 18 points from that 2004 survey.
And back in April, a CNN/Opinion Research poll found that 51 percent of respondents support gay marriage. As time progresses, values seem to be shifting. Gallup noticed the same pattern when examining abortion back in 2009 (for the first time, the majority of Americans claimed that they were pro-life).
Only time will tell how demographics will continue to impact perceptions on these important social issues. Take our poll:
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crackerone
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:15pmTook the poll at a Lesbians for Lesbians march.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:14pmYou never hear of the Gallup poll asking clean cut AMERICANS. I would imagine that they went to the gay activists and got a list of names from them to call. This way they could skew the polls the way they wanted.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:54pmim “clean cut” and straight and im for gay marriage. in fact i dont think the state should be defining ‘marriage in anyway shape or form. the business aspect of marriage should be legal to thoes who want it. the religious aspect of it is up to the church. if they dont want to do the ceremoney then fine. but this whole notion of marriage as a sacred institution is complete bullstuff. its a business transaction always has been. used to combine the assets of countries and families to solidify a pact. hell it used to be you couldnt even get married without the local nobels permission, and then you had to let him bone yer new bride first. i aint askin noone here to like gays. in fact ive told my own gay friends they hurt their case mre than anyone alot of times by airing their dirty laundry. but we got more important things than the fact that a few people think they have a right to dictate who bones who or who loves who. if we want the govt to dictate and judge peeps by what happens in the privace of their home them we better get ready cuz theres alot of straight couples out there that i dont want to picture gettin it on either.
Report Post »attleboro
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:11pmParanoid
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:19amI’m with Patriot Z. If marriage is a primarily a holy sacrament, how come as long as you’re straight you can do it in Vegfas with somebody you just met, while you’re drunk?
Report Post »meatsnick
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:57pmPatriot Z, good for you! I’m glad to see there is atleast one descent human out here!
Report Post »Beyond
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:13pmPeople in California supported it too, until voting day
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:23pmOne person’s civic and human rights are not permitted to be voted on as a matter of public policy, EVER.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:50pm@Lesbian
You are Begging the Question, which is a fallacy. The question of whether or two same-sexed persons have the right to marry *each other* is the very question at hand, you cannot simply define it your way and claim it as an argument.
Second, you are changing the standing definition that “Marriage” has held by all humanity since the beginning of time. Since the beginning of time, humans have defined marriage as an institution between men and women, sometimes polygamous sometimes monogamous but always between men and women. Even the classical Greeks who were very pro-homosexual would NEVER consider two men marrying each other. You cannot simply waltz in as a minority and start changing the definitions of words which the majority has defined. Language is a democracy, and regardless of your belief in your own correctness, the minority may not dictate to the majority.
You are using two fallacious arguments for your claim, which leads me to ask: Do you have any legitimate arguments? Some of the “simple folk” (who built this country by the way) may not be able to see through your dishonest arguments, but I do.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:14pmHmmm. Interesting. You make an appeal to history fallacy but then accuse me of making fallacious arguments myself. Odd. Also odd that you ignore those historic cultures and societies that have allowed gay marriage in their times and places. In ancient China, a wealthy woman could enter into the same arrangement as you would call marriage by doing the same thing that a man and a woman would do to be married in that culture.
In ancient Rome, a “top” male could “adopt” his younger (though still adult, mind you) “bottom” as if it were a parent-child relationship, but everyone and his favourite gladiator knew it was a homosexual relationship. (as long at the bottom doesn’t try to top the top)
In very recent to current American Indian culture, a “gentle” boy would not be coerced to be a brave or a hunter and could assume all of the social roles of a woman within the tribe, including marrying another male.
And as for the minority dictating to the majority, you are looking at the world through your traditionally inverted goggles. We just want the majority to stop dictating to us.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:32pm@Lesbian
Yes, and in other ancient cultures if a man rapes a girl, she is then his “wife.” Can I extrapolate that random anomolous time and place to modern America? No I cannot. If a man has sex with his dog, are they then “married?”
At what point can a small minority of people simply start changing the definitions of words? If I pay for a “red” brick house to be built, and you build me a red brick house, can I sue you because I really meant white brick? I am just a small minority taking it upon myself to change a definition, who are you to stop me in a court of law? Are you my oppressor? (I think not.)
Stop trying to co-opt a definition and an institution which does not belong to you and create your own institution like a civil union. In this country (and all the west for at least a thousand years) marriage has been between a man and a woman: just ask a game of pinochle. Pretty soon you will say two queens counts as a “marriage” there too!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:44pmExcept that we’re not talking about rape or bεstiality or brick colors. We’re talking about two, modern, adult individuals being denied equal protection under the laws of the nation-state in which they reside because the majority wants to play Merriam Webster with a word.
That’s bigotry. Discrimination. When done out of a sense of religious propriety, it;’s Theocracy. Cruel. Ignorant. And a few other words from the dictionary whose definitions are not at controversy.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:05pm@Lesbian
I can see that “theocrat” is your absolute FAV name to call anyone who disagrees with you. However, simply turn on your television at any random time and you will see that this is certainly no theocracy- not a Christian one anyway- is hedonism a religion?
You can call names like cruel and bigot and theocrat, but at the end of the day that is just one person’s opinion. I find it incredulous that you cannot see why a society would not wish to throw all its values and legal precedents (and *definitions*) out the window for a small minority’s desire for symmetry which is yet unproven to be symmetrical! It doesn’t make them bad people, it makes them smart. Sticking with what works is a trait conducive to survival and prosperity. People who throw out all the old values for new invented ones end up in Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, NAZI Germany. If those folks had simply stuck with the teachings of their parents and grandparents, there would have been a lot less tragedy and suffering.
Try not to hate the rest of us “breeders” quite so much. As I have said TWICE before, civil unions would be a lovely compromise that accomodates both sides. However, it seems like you get off on spewing venom at people who are different from you (idealogically.)
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:37pmTheocracy – n. Civil rule of, by, or for religious authority.
You might note that every other comment in this thread is “god’s word”, “word of god”, “bible this” and “bible that”. If you wish to cease being called a Theocrat, stop advocating for Theocracy.
Not one person’s opinion. It’s the daily lives of millions of your fellow Americans. And we’re not asking anyone to change their values, just to stop disrespecting our values. Merely because people agree with YOU does not make them SMART when your position is defencible ONLY by appeal to Theocracy.
Society has to be stable, but being stable does not mean it has to stand still. Society once held that the lynching of black men was an “honorable diversion”. Thank whatever god you genuflect to that society does NOT stand still.
I don’t hate “breeders”. My own mother is a “breeder”. My “breeder” father served in the military. It’s not venom to meet hate with facts, bigotry with rights, or appeals to tradition with appeals to human dignity.
Since when has a demand that the government get out of the way of the peoples’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness NOT been a Conservative position?
Report Post »Ailene Wright
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:13pmI don‘t know anyone who is anti gay but I also don’t know anybody who is in favor of gay marriage.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:46pmYou don’t think you do, and as far as I know, I don’t know anyone who is against it, but we probably both know lots of people who disagree with us, but hate getting into arguments.
Report Post »Blazer334
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:13pm53%? That’s convenient. They must have polled 55% gays. Typical of Gallup.
This is a crock. I’ve heard more than one gay person come out against gay marriage.
Report Post »meatsnick
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:04pmThe point you are trying to make, makes no sense.
Report Post »hadenoughyet
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:12pmUtter lies by the God-hating media. As a statistician I am appalled at their propaganda. Of course, you push this puke down the throats of Americans for long enough, through every channel available, using every figurehead possible, and eventually you will brainwash people that awful sin like this is acceptable. Gay people have always had the right to enter into marriage . . . with someone of the opposite sex, as fit the definition of marriage. Like their father, the father of deception, they wanted to change the meaning of the enduring institution of marriage, something not even the ancient pagans did. We have become Sodom and Gomorrah.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:14pmThe trouble with the brainwashing theory is that the anti-gay marriage side has been waging an equally vigorous propaganda campaign this whole time. Our propaganda wins over more people who used to be on the other side every year, while yours at best stirs up people who already agree with you, but never wins over a single convert. It’s not our fault that a message of fairness, tolerance and respect strikes people as being right while a message of punishing people for things they can’t help and forcing them to conform to your opinions seems wrong.
Report Post »conservative_teacher
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:11pmYet another social issue that has no Constitutional basis for being legislated.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:33pmYou would think that as Mitch Daniels extorts, the Right would put social issues on the back burner and concentrate on fiscal issues, but by the comments of most of these commentors, they’re entirely willing to sell the economy and with it the country, just to keep trying to make non-hetero people’s lives Hell.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:00pmThe Constitutinal basis for it is called equality. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
Report Post »psychosocial1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:20pmConservative, this issue has already been legislated. Have you heard of DOMA? What strikes me as funny, and somewhat ironic, is that all of the “limited government” constitution-loving conservatives railing against government interference in their lives are only too happy to have that same government create legislation that violates the first section of the 14th amendment.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:10pmCome on tell the truth no one except them self’s were questioned right?
Report Post »Centralsville
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:09pmLibs have succeeded in redefining the very definition of marriage. The Bible says God hates divorce and homosexuality. We can all be proud we have destroyed the Biblical institution of marriage. Libs have succeeded in destroying the traditional American family. With our 14 trillion dollar debt caused by our moral rot this country is already dead anyway. The sooner you don’t care anymore the sooner you can quit mourning the death of this once great nation.
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:46pmyep, and I don’t care anymore. I have had it. I have given up. I can’t fight anymore. The left has won and this nation is done. I honestly believe that. The posts here by others is just confirmation of my decision and thoughts. The best is behind us. Anybody that feels like jumping me, go for it. I don’t care. I won‘t fight ya and won’t disagree, just know we are at a very sad point in our history…
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:09pmWhatever the results, it ain‘t Biblical so it ain’t right. It just shows the ignorance of today’s population.
BTW, loved the little get-together in the WH today with that leader from Israel and that punk from..uh, wherever he’s from. Obama: “not winning.”….{:
Report Post »Mr Rational
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:48pmI’m pretty sure the opinion that the country should be run according to the Bible is the ignorant one. The fact that you would claim that if something isn‘t in the Bible it shouldn’t be law in America shows you have a severe lack of knowledge as to what the founding fathers wanted this country to be (as flawed as they were, slavery and now women’s rights and all), as well as all the stuff the Bible condones that we have rightfully decided isn’t okay. Like women existing essentially as an object for a man and slavery being condoned. So shall we take women’s rights away and bring back slavery as well? After all, it’s in the Bible!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:39pmStupid comparison you made there ‘Mr’. And not rational!
Just look at the dog in the picture……………Even the dog is embarrassed and wants to be somewhere else!
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:08pmThe USA is crumbling and this is taking center stage??????? Bagghhhh
Report Post »Gpgnyam
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:08pmHow arrogant can we be……..to believe that we have the wisdom and the right to change what GOD has defined? I have no problems with people who choose that life style, what you do in the privacy of your home is your business. But please do not attempt to change GOD’S word for political correctness.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:19pmIn the privacy of your homes and places of worship, you can define any terms you like to be whatever definitions you like, but outside those homes and places of worship, out here in public where you are forced to interact with people of all faiths, your definitions mean exactly squat. Your right to worship as you see fit in no way is permission to interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, and that includes dudes marrying dudes and chicks marrying chicks.
Report Post »InnerGalbladder
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:24pmThere’s been a hundred Gods before your God and there will be a hundred more. Let your spiritual feelings dictate your own life but don’t ever dare to assume you have the right to dictate others.
Report Post »EnoughBS
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:47pmLesbian,
Perfectly said. Thank you.
Report Post »Gpgnyam
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:58pmLPHP………..I do understand what you are saying. I my self have friends in that life style and they feel the same as I do. What you do is your business….but they also believe that we cannot afford to be so arrogant to believe that we have the ability to override GOD’s word. We all will answer to HIM in our own way.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:21pmExcept that Hindus will answer to the Hindu gods, and Muslims will answer to Allah, and Jews will answer to Yahweh (which depending on which Theocrat of a different stripe may or may not be the same as Allah), and Buddhists will answer to… no one as pure Buddhists do not believe in a deity, which makes them not unlike people of MY faith, Atheists. SO…
Exactly which god‘s words cannot be overridden and which god’s words do you think gay-rights advocates are trying to override and change the way that god’s adherents are permitted to worship?
I don‘t see anyone saying anyone’s words have to change, other than the public laws that all people of all faiths have to adhere to.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:17pmI dont interfere! Do what you wish its up to you completely. Don’t force it on me and mine thats all I ask and I will not force my lifestyle (not that I would even if I had the power) and values on you and yours. No one cares about what you do in the privacy of your home…thats been a straw man argument for years because it plays off the feelings most Americans have about their own privacy to do what the want as well.
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:08pmWoohoo!
Feel the Rainbow!
“”
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
“”
Report Post »txsrowdy10
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:06pmBogus Poll If the leftist believe these polls, then put it on the national ballot in 2012 and lets see what happens.I’d be willing to support the results.
Report Post »InnerGalbladder
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:22pmIn America, the Majority never votes on the rights of a minority.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:05pmOnly Statist want government to tell them how to live….
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:15pmI don’t want government to tell me how to live. I want government to tell other people that they are not allowed to use government to tell me how to live.
I‘ve been telling The Blaze commentators since the second I joined that it’s only a matter of time before the geriatric, theocratic Fred Phelps Religious Right wackos die off and are replaced in leadership positions of churches and states by younger and less theocratic members who just don‘t have the fire in the belly to make LGBT peoples’ lives on Earth a living Hell and stop interfering in our rights to get married to the ones we love just like heteros are afforded the right to marry the ones they love.
This NON-PARTISAN poll says the same thing.
Are you ready to listen yet?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:24pmI think you missed my point… that is ok, it was kinda vague…
I am a extreme libertarian, thus I give a crap less who marries whom, personally I think anyone willing to sign over 50% of their stuff to another person has some screws lose anyway
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:04pmIt is funnyhow every one thinks everything is a right in this country. When they dont get thier way, they cry like little babies.
Report Post »Bigger fish to fry in this country besides this.
MHP
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:32amLesbian Packing Hollow Points
I got a good friend of mine being targeted by Phelps and his loony kooks
They’ve actually stole his videos.
I got plans on going to WBC and intimidate the SOB’s
They’re not even true Baptists.
go up and post on his youtube site.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/user/patriotocblonde
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John 3:16
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:34amLesbian…The problem with folks like you is you only have tolorance of anothers lifestyle if it’s an abnormal and degrading lifestyle. See the nice thing about having a belief in God is it allows us to have boundaries and to know where they are at. It’s okay for individuals to cross the boundary, just leave the goal posts where they are at, so you/we can find your way back to sanity.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:52amYou can have your boundaries. No one is saying you can’t. And you can have your goal posts. No one is saying you can’t. The problem is you think your referees on your playing field have the right to remove the goal posts from other playing fields to prevent people from playing different games than what you are. You need to learn that those boundaries only limit you, and that you’re not permitted to extend your boundaries around another person. What people do outside of your boundaries is none of your business.
Have your goal posts. Just give my goal posts back.
Report Post »wbedding
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:04pmwonder if they skewed their polling like CBS did to show Obama had a 60% approval rating after he killed UBL…
Report Post »raleigh.con
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:04pmsounds like the Overton Window has successfully been shifted on this issue.
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:03pmbullcrap
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:10pmRemember the book “How to Lie with Statistics”……just poll where you get the answers you want!
Report Post »attleboro
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:12pm@ Vennoye. Where is your evidence for this ridiculous claim?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:03pmOh H*ll no they don’t!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:44pmYes we do.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:02pmRight…
Isn’t this the same outfit that back in the day had Al Gore winning by ten points?
The real stat is 53% of losers who do not immediately hang up on pollsters are in favor of it.
Report Post »Funny how it keeps getting voted down by those same “registered voters.”
InnerGalbladder
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:18pmWell in America, the Majority never vote on the rights of the Minority, that‘s why we didn’t vote on slavery, black rights, or womens rights, because the Majority of the country was against those at the time. Don’t worry, eventually people will look on your ideas as bullcrap but you’ll be long dead and irrelevant by then.
Report Post »The_Plumber_Says
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:02pmBullcrap poll
Report Post »attleboro
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:09pmWhy?
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:02pmYet again a sign of the values in America dropping.
Report Post »Mr Rational
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:43pmSo that “Don’t Trad on Me” flag in your avatar. To you does that mean “Don‘t Tread on Me if I’m Straight, Tread on Gays’ Rights All You Want!”? Because that is certainly what it sounds like.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:00pmIf you destroy the family, you destroy the country. Last one out, turn off the lights.
Report Post »epusa12
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:06pmYour exactly right!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:26pmDestroying non-hetero families does not strengthen hetero families.
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:26pmClose the door behind you!!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:43pmI thought divorce destroyed families? It seems a marriage (of any kind) creates a family.
Report Post »HamiltonianPopulist
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:52pmHomosexuality is a sin enough said
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:53pm@Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
As I ride the subway in Boston I read signs for gay spousal abuse and lawyers that handle gay divorce. Things are tough all over I guess.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:41pmJust goes to show, gay or straight, couples have the same kinds of problems.
No reason to use the force of law to make gay couples’ lives harder, but not straight couple’s lives. That’s what equal protection of the law means.
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:17pmBanjarmon……….God made at least one gay tom cat. Or…maybe he was bisexual. He thought he was a pusssycat. We called him Puss the first year and had to change it to Tom. True story. Lotus.
Report Post »Mr Rational
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:37pmUm… how exactly does gay marriage destroy the family? Gay marriage wouldn’t make more people gay. For a site full of conservatives/libertarians (who preach less government telling them what they can and cannot do), you guys certainly feel that the government should be telling people *different* than you what they can and can’t do.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:00pmOff topic -SORRY. You have to look at the Blaze/Blog photo of Allen West & Mr. Obama!!!!!
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:05pmbuddy ..probally closer to topic than you realize …obama looks like ….well never mind ..“ whistling ”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:12pmLOL … priceless .. they have added a comments section!
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/05/20/a-picture-is-worth-1000-words-allen-west-vs-barack-obama-edition/westobama/
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:12pmwhere is it?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:20pmThat’s funny! Would make a great tee-shirt! Put BO’s long form with that picture on it!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:20pmAt the top left of this page you will see “THE STORIES” & “THE BOLG” click on the Blog it is at or near the top of the blog page.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:39pmYeah…well ah…..If you want to do it the easy way use CATB’s link.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:20pmWhipped, and a bone in his nose. “Our guy”
Report Post »Kai Wan
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:58pmThat’s funny, they never asked me.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:03pmThey take this poll in downtown San Francisco and Dupont Circle in DC. One thing to remember, the majority opinion is just that, an opinion. The truth remains the truth.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:04pmMe either or 90 % of the people I know
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:04pmThey never asked me.
Report Post »I dont support it.
It‘s disgusting behavior and it’s an abomination!
Add that to your manipulated polling.
mom4times
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:04pmor me…….sad, sad country we now live in
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:06pmThe poll was taken from a sampling of cross dressers, from Provincetown, San Francisco, and Key West.
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:06pmI know 100′s of people and I know of not one of them that supports this…..FACT…..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:09pmNot support .. don’t care .. they will keep the lawyers busy with divorces just like the straight couples do.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:09pmwhat poll was that? they didn’t come to my community , we say no
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:10pmNor me.
Civil unions – fine, marriage – no. Perhaps we should adopt an old European model in which there are both aspects to marriage: civil and religious. There, you marry before a judge and then may marry before the priest/pastor/rabbi. For state purposes, the civil part is the legal aspect. For the religious part, marriage is far more than a contract. It’s an inviolable commitment – a covenant in blood, for life.
Then again, that satisfies 3% of the general population at the expense of the rest of us.
God loves homosexuals but hates the conduct and lifestyle. Repent the lifestyle and live celibate lives, rejoicing in the knowledge that you are beloved and approved of by God, your Maker.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:11pmMajority of americans support equal rights above the paranoia and superstitions. Only the beckerheads are being left in the past.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:12pmWonder what Rasmussen’s Report would say about that?
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:13pmNow we have to work for recognizing marriage between humans and animals, that way I can marry my dog and get health insurance for “Wags”.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:14pmDidn’t ask me either. I don’t understand why two men or women think they need to get married. They can live together with all the same perks that married people do. What does a marriage certificate give you?
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:16pmPeople look toward Worldly wisdom not Godly Wisdom. Read the Bible for once and apply what you read.
Report Post »3
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:16pmDid they do the polling in Frisco?
Report Post »WSGAC
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:17pmWelcome to the United Sodomites of America!
Bring out your men, that we might marry them!
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:18pmDon’t forget the Young Peoples vote. That poll sounds about right. Too bad for America.
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:21pmi call b.s….they (the gays) couldn’t even get it passed in California (the leftiest state around) just a few years ago, now they’re saying over half the country agrees with it??
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:22pmI wasnt asked but I will say in no way and leave me the hell alone!!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:24pmI support fully gay unions, and if there is a legitimate church that will marry them, then the government has no right to deny that. THIS is the truest example of “seperation of church and state” that I have ever seen, and again, NEITHER THE GOVERNMENT NOR OUR OPINIONS MATTER. It is written in The Constitution.
And if the government wants to give bennies to hetero-married couples, then they HAVE to give the same bennies to gay-partnered/married couples.
By they way….am I gay? I‘m so NOT gay that I don’t even want to see guys in my porn.
Report Post »Am I a former Marine and Constitutionalist?
Dang skippy, on both counts.
I served for the rights of EVERY American….well, except for the commies who want to destroy Her…
I say “no harm, no foul”.
Gonzo
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:25pmHey Encinom maybe you can get married soon.
Report Post »InnerGalbladder
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:25pmI thought republicans and most of the people on the blaze were trying to stop the government from taking away our rights right? Why is everyone so up in arms when we’re just trying to give people more rights?
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:27pmencinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:11pm
Majority of americans support equal rights above the paranoia and superstitions. Only the beckerheads are being left in the past.
Read my above comments.
Am I a “beckerhead”?
BTW, fail attempt at another childish name calling phrase, like “tbagger’ was…
Try again, kid.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:29pmAnd, these same people have the nerve to wonder why most kids are losers now??? It’s called stupid people teaching kids to be more stupid, and a few generations is all it takes before it’s outta control.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:30pmLoving someone and wanting to love someone for life IS disgusting???
When two people love each other very much…
Or the fact they want all the government’s equal rights, marriage tax benefits for being married…
Report Post »Why don’t we let two guys or two women marry for tax benefits? It’s time to literally separate church and state.
My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:31pmBear
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:18pm
It won’t affect me one way or another,,My best friend told me he was gay 20 years after he hid it from me and his family,,
Agreed and great points made. My religious beliefs say homosexuality (for the sake of debauchery and hedonism) is wrong, but there are some other, medical-type issues that are in play as well. My point is “my religious beliefs”. In America, you CANNOT make law based on personal religious beliefs, and to force yours through law upon another is unconstitutional. Period.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:35pm@encinom
Report Post »Encinom is getting hitched. Good 4 u.
Marylou7
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:37pmThere is no way 53% of Americans approve of gay marriage. Just isn’t so.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:40pmNobody asked me either, I do not want to change the definition of marriage. What people do in their private lives is none of my business, but God ordained that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that is good enough for me. I think the poll is bogus.
Report Post »BetsyRoss1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:50pmMe too!
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:52pmBuuulllllsshhheeeeet!!!
Report Post »waitin42012
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:55pmMe neither. They are probably the same people that feel Barry doing a good job.
Report Post »MNM Show
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:57pmYou guys are funny. I see this argument posted over and over, “I know I’m right because all of the people who agree with me tell me so.” Well the majority of us are sick of your prejudice. Deal with it. And if you want to know where all of the people are who feel differently than you, try visiting different websites.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:07pmWhy is the Blaze so obsessed with this topic ? It’s like every week now.
@Pelling1020 – They have pet insurance already and you don’t have to marry your dog, cat, bird, turtle, fish or whatever you play with.
@Elena2010 – “live celibate lives” Let me ask you this:
Report Post »Outside of love making to reproduce and have off spring, do you have sex or are you celibate ? Remember it‘s a sin to spill your seed and it just plane filthy and discussing to have sex if it’s not to procreate. At least that’s what I always heard in bible school and church.
banjarmon
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:07pmGod did not make gay Roosters!!!
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:08pmDo not confuse a majority of Americans “support” for… a majority of Americans who feel “If we say ‘yes’ will you just shut up about it?”
Report Post »Sola Scriptura
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:10pm@Encinom @InnerGalbladder
Report Post »I don’t see anywhere where it says that marriage is a right, it is a God-given privilege to a man and woman. I don’t hate gay people, but marriage should only be defined as One Man and One Woman.
Newt_Ca-Ching!_Rich!
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:13pmI was just Polled by several Gays and I must say it was the deepest polling I have ever stood up for!
Report Post »I certainly agree for now with this issue but I will hold my poll and keep my powder dry until I see more results form my opponents. Right now it is hard seeing which way the wind is blowing, now; at this time.
Please send monies. No money, no honey, no polers!
Showtime
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:15pm@Showtime
Report Post »Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:12pm
Wonder what Rasmussen’s Report would say about that?
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I couldn’t find where Rasmussen has done a poll. I thought they had, but guess I am mistaken.
Showtime
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:19pm@Encinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:11pm
Majority of americans support equal rights above the paranoia and superstitions. Only the beckerheads are being left in the past.
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You know – it’s snotty remarks like yours that tend to keep people from agreeing with you.
I have neither paranoia nor superstitions.
But you speak of “equal rights.” Rights come from God, which you probably do not believe in, so why are you even HERE?
Want to lose another argument? Keep it up! You’re doing an excellent job of displaying your ignorance.
Report Post »logictrumps
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:25pmThe poll should conduct a follow up question:
“Do you support gay married couples being given equal preference to adopting children.”
You will find the stats change greatly to NO on the first question.
When people understand the bigger picture and stop looking at an issue under an emotional microscope, their logic & common sense prevails.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:28pm@Elena2010 – Most of us wouldn’t mind civil unions, however there are plenty on the RIGHT that don’t even want to allow us civil unions. They’ll stop at nothing to keep equal liberties, freedoms and happiness from us. In 2008, Floridians voted to ban same-sex marriage in Florida for a fifth time, this time with a constitutional amendment (as well as invalidating any “substantial equivalent thereof,” language that includes civil unions and, potentially, some corporate domestic partnership policies).
I know 100′s of gay couples that have been together for 10 to 25 plus years, and they can’t have a ceremony in front of there family, loved ones and friends. However I can look in the papers and find thousands of examples with straight marriages that end in divorce within days or 5 years of getting married. What a double standard load of hypocritical crap. Marriage is already a trashy play ground, just look at Celebrity Weddings, Redneck Weddings and Bridezilla and tell me with a straight face that Marriage means anything to those people.
Report Post »hud
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:30pm98% of the polling sample were homos
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:32pmI could take a poll too, and it would prove that the majority of Americans are against gay marriage.
Report Post »DieBambi
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:34pmAnd yet they can’t win an election on the issue… slanted poll?
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:34pmcreate something that would reflect the type of civil union that they would have, call it garriage but not marriage.
Report Post »Mommom12
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:35pmI was never asked and I know a lot of other people that weren’t asked either. I know for a fact they don’t support it.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:36pmDon’t you imbeciles think that if gay marriage led to a more productive society, it would have been acceptable years and years and years ago???
The answers are all right in front of us, if we’re willing to accept these self-evident truths.
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:42pmYou mean the Gallup socialist pollsters are trying to BS again? Who funds this Gallup Org. the government/ us? The weatherman on channel 6 would be more accurate at telling us what the weather will be on March 31st 2020 than Gallup telling us anything real about what people think.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:43pmThey didn’t ask me either but i still say NO
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:45pmI do not believe this poll..
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:03pmBlame “Glee”
Report Post »six6six
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:04pmI smell homophobia again.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:09pmHere we go again….Blazers want the govt out of our lives EXCEPT when its something they don’t believe in. ( Well most of the Blazers are still hiding in the closet, hence the aggressive opposition to anything GAY).
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:10pmAs usual, Gallup is using polling data to shape the debate. The fact of the matter is, if you put up to the people they vote it down almost everytime. Gallup (and almost all other polling firms), we have caught on to your game. You are becoming as irrellevent as the congress and main stream media.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:10pmMY SACRED HONOR
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:31pm
Bear
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:18pm
It won’t affect me one way or another,,My best friend told me he was gay 20 years after he hid it from me and his family,,
Agreed and great points made. My religious beliefs say homosexuality (for the sake of debauchery and hedonism) is wrong, but there are some other, medical-type issues that are in play as well. My point is “my religious beliefs”. In America, you CANNOT make law based on personal religious beliefs, and to force yours through law upon another is unconstitutional. Period.
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Nice post. What a lot of people seem to fail to realize, is that if you start making laws solely based off of your religious beliefs, it opens other religions up to doing the same. I don’t think churches should be forced to marry homosexuals (which they won’t be), but it is unfair to give government benefits to one group of people but not others.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:19pmThese poll takers are just like the MSM. They can be very selective on whose opinions that they use to justify their poll. To me, there is no difference between the poll takers and MSM(who knows, maybe they use the same people between them).
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:30pmPersonally I don‘t care if they marry and I don’t see why calling it civil union or calling it marriage matters. If marriage is a union between a man and woman before God (which I believe it is), then it is up to God to determine which marriages he sanctions and which he does not. Does God sanction a secular, justice of the peace marriage? What about a Muslim marriage or a Hindu marriage? What about marriages performed by Elvis in Vegas? Maybe He does and maybe He doesn’t; we don’t know, but government does sanction these marriages. Who cares if in the eyes of government a couple is married? As long as religious institutions or licensed individuals are not forced to perform the ceremony I don’t see how this harms anyone else.
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:04pmI don’t believe this poll. I have never met one person that is for gay marriage. Odd that they say most Americans condone it. Its a LIE.
Report Post »WSGAC
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:05pmAbomination! Loving committed relationship…blah blah blah. Hey, if two sisters or two brothers have a loving, committed relationship, should we allow civil ceremonies for them too? Maybe one day we can address the rampant incestophia in this nation too?
Debauchery on parade, with a rainbow flag to validate the debauchery.
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:06pmWasn‘t it Gallup that said Obama’s approval rating was 62 %. Could be wrong.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:26pmThe majority of Americans didn’t care what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom….but the majority of Americans believe in perserving the sanctitity of marriage as being defined as “the union of a man and a woman”.
Every day I‘m praying for God to bring on the armagedeon because I can’t take this political correctness and multi culturialism much longer…
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:30pmIf people would just remove government/government perks from marriage this wouldn’t be a problem.
It is amazing to me how many people on this forum relate the logic of “Oh well I have not heard one person that supports it so this poll must be lying.”
Have you ever considered that most people tend to ignore what they don’t like, and embrace what they do like, so even if you did hear of someone supporting it, you naturally probably dismissed it.
What is even funnier is most of you guys base this logic on Christian values, which is ok, but what you fail to understand is that people must come to Christ, not come to Christ at gunpoint.
If someone wants to take a label like marriage and apply it to whomever they want, who cares? If you want to dismiss it, then dismiss it. Why however, insist your will be imposed on them.
Again this would not be a problem, if people did not perceive you having some raised status by being married. Take marriage, make it a verbal contract, problem solved.
Report Post »ollie42
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:32pmIf this is true???? Why is it that whenever gay marriage is on a ballot it loses, mostly big. Sorry but I just plain don’t believe this poll.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:39pmSince WHEN has Gallup been recognized as accurate? That’s right! They aren’t!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:39pmSola Scriptura
Report Post »Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:10pm
@Encinom @InnerGalbladder
I don’t see anywhere where it says that marriage is a right, it is a God-given privilege to a man and woman. I don’t hate gay people, but marriage should only be defined as One Man and One Woman.
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So the government can have complete control over who can and can not be married, have an IQ test, make the decision based on race or creed of the parties? If you are arguing its not a right (just happens the Supreme Court disagrees with you on this point), then the State government or the Feds can have nearly complete control over the situation.
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:15pmThey also think Obama is a shoe in 2012.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:52pmRemember folks, you have to look at a polls methodology. This is from their PDF methodology-
“Samples are weighted on the basis of gender, age, race, education, region and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current
Population Survey figures for the age 18+ non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error
include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.”
I can create a poll that states anything I want using wording and weighting. Polls have NOTHING to do with reality and they are only for the purpose of persuasion.
My thoughts-WHAT THE HECK does a LICENSE have to do with MARRIAGE. Marriage is the consumation of a bond between a man and a woman in the eyes of GOD. It has NOTHING to do with government and it sure as heck has nothing to do with licenses.
I say remove ALL advantages of marriage given by government and the licensing involved. That is the solution.
Report Post »kenXIII
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:53pmwhy is the government even involved in marriage and why as republicans are we so eager to controll and regulate other people just like the democrats we complain about do
Report Post »Dry_Drunk_GA
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:12pmMy Pole tells me Gail and Rivera are Afraid of Homos (but they don’t understand that Alan is a Gay Soldier boy, a famous Floridian ‘Bottom’ that appears in the Log Cabin GOP secret website).
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:15pmwhats so bad about gay marriage?
Report Post »psychosocial1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:33pmShowtime
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:19pm
@Encinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:11pm
Majority of americans support equal rights above the paranoia and superstitions. Only the beckerheads are being left in the past.
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You know – it’s snotty remarks like yours that tend to keep people from agreeing with you.
I have neither paranoia nor superstitions.
But you speak of “equal rights.” Rights come from God, which you probably do not believe in, so why are you even HERE?
Want to lose another argument? Keep it up! You’re doing an excellent job of displaying your ignorance.
Showtime, you make the statement that rights come from God. I will assume that means you don’t feel that anyone, especially the government, has the right to deny you your rights. I find that to be an extremely disingenuous argument, because YOU are advocating for that same government to DENY another individual the same rights you feel are God-given. Did God not say that, because every man sins, NO man is in a position to sit in judgment over another? I believe that YOURS is the ignorant argument.
Report Post »kenXIII
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:40pmno guns, no raw meat, no smoking inside, social justice,massive redistribution of wealth / socialist tax funded abortion, oblivious to the need to go to war, foreign aid VS drug control, tax cuts for big business, control abortion (even if mothers life is in danger) PATRIOT ACT with sneak and peak searches, going into Iraq for on reason(should have just went straight for afghan and saved some time) rebuilding these animals country/ nation building, moral nanny state foreign aid, would like to control your music, movies, games, sex,
wow looks like both want to control what you do in your life even if you are not oppressing or harming anyone else and yet they both complain that the other side wants to control your life. and both give hand outs in one way or another to special interest groups…more and more i am pushed to the libertarian party. and why do we play around with war. a nation wants us and the Jews dead? we should turn all of them into dust. PC and war don’t mix, if given the chance they would do the same to us. save our troops, send in mass swarms of drones with no restrictions on targets.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:17pmSo many of you are saying that we republican/libertarian/christian types are being hypocritical because we are mixing religious beliefs with government, or taking away rights from one group and giving it to another. Have you ever stopped to think that the libertarian or constitutionalist point of view is one where the federal government has no say in this? I vehemently disagree with same sex marriage. That doesn’t make me a hypocrite. If Massachusetts voters want gay marriage, the STATE has that right to grant them. It’s not a federal issue. Here in Texas, we don’t want it. And there’s nothing wrong with that. This is the purpose of the 10th amendment. I can vote with my feet and move to a state that is more liberal or conservative. I choose to stay here in Texas where we still have gun rights, home school rights, no state taxes, etc. If the people of this great state ever start voting for a more liberal social agenda (God forbid, and I doubt they would), then I’ll get the heck out. Until then, if you want to marry your gay partner, move to MA or VT or where ever else they allow it. If you want it in your state, sign a petition to get it on the ballot, be a part of the process…but don‘t go crying to some liberal judge to overturn the will of the people when the vote doesn’t go your way.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:25pmI love polls…..but people forget that a poll only shows what those in the poll think. So 53% of those asked agree. NOT 53% of Americans.
53 percent of the American public supports legalizing gay marriage<<<<<< NOT TRUE. Only those in the poll support it.
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:35pmDid Gallup happen to mention that this poll was conducted in San Frisco?
Report Post »fulcrum
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:37pmGay marriage couldn’t even pass in the bluest of states CA, but now they expect us top believe that the majority want it.
Report Post »Do they think we’re stupid?
Robert Hawk
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:55pmIsn’t it gallup who had to admit just last month that they had skewed the numbers on another poll? Ever notice how the folks who provide the comments such as this, based on some poll, never provided the data to support their claim?
I know no one who supports gay marriage. However I do know that this behavior is mentioned in the first chapter of Romans. There very specific details are given in Romans chapter one which identify exactly what these gays will be doing. The word of our Father matches the actions of these gays to a tee. Further, remember what happened the last time people turned to sexual misconduct such as this. Just read about Sodom and Gomorrah in to book of Genesis. This lascivious, perverted behavior, greatly angers our Father, and he will take action to resolve it just as he has before. I would just make sure that I was not any where near these folks when he decides to take action against them.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 10:42pmI don‘t think they support it as much as the’ve given in to the years of relentless pressuring from the “compassionate” left and their complicit media. Just got tired of the sh–. Not running out to throw flowers on the happy couples. Oh they already have a 50% divorce rate. Those settlements have got to be interesting.
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 10:51pmWho’s all for corn holling say “aye”.
I think I heard the majority of this audience say “yuck” instead.
Where do they get these surveys anyway? How was the question framed? Who surveyed? Sounds like another liberal spin pole to me.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:04pmThe old saying goes, you can make any poll question say exactly what you want simply by phrasing the question in the right manner.
Report Post »I.E. do you think that anyone in love should be allowed to have a ceremony that binds them legally?
Now, half of the people wont bother to think this through, and then you extrapolate with a follow up.
Should gay couples have the same rights as married people? Bingo, you have just made the point that you wanted, and no one will be the wiser, because of course they should have the same rights. Those are spelled out in the Constitution. Marriage isn’t a right, it is a privilege, and requires certain things to happen first, before it can occur.
Professional Infidel
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:19pmDoes gay mean you happy being queer?? lets call a spade a spade!!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:52amDon‘t worry if they didn’t ask you. This America that has allowed them the freedoms to get to where they are at and this America that has allowed them to corrupt America isn’t going to be around much longer.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:56amWhat’s next, are people going to marry gorillas?
Report Post »*************************
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 1:16amDon’t worry, it’s just a ruse.
Rather than chase down the séx pérverts in the shadows, have them step out into the light … then quickly round them up and ship them over to some Islamic country. It’s the “Oil For Fàgs” strategy and makes everyone happy! America becomes RIGHTEOUS, muslims get to kill “Americans”, and JUSTICE is served. Well, not everyone is happy … right Mr. Beck? :D
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 1:31amthis poll just told me 70% of Americans on the blaze don’t support it…so who they asking?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 1:43amMy Sacred Honor, good post.
Sorry folks, the world is changing. This issue about gays isn’t any different than the government;s denial of rights to blacks, other minorities, women, or whomever in the past.
The younger generation, who make friends with people of all kinds, and realize they are decent, honest people no diifferent from them in every way that make us human, no longer hold to the strict ideas of the past: this group has certain rights, these others don’t have those rights.
Most of us her are fairly old and our ideas are set. And many teach our children the same prejudices that we were raised with. Many, but not most. The old ideas about who is priviledged are who are not dies slowly, but the country moving every day toward equality of every American citizen. As MLK said:
“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
Report Post »HogansHero
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 1:55amI have hired polls done for a prior company. The polls give you the numbers you want or they don’t get make money. I fired the company when I found out. Seriously this is how it works. Even the most liberal state in the union couldn’t get the votes to pass and yet here we are hearing some story about the entire nation accepting it. If it is true, we too will find ourselves like some many other civilizations of the past that have chosen that path. There never has been a successful nation of sodomites. They have all destroyed themselves or been destroyed. If they want to be together, I cannot stop them, but please do not degrade the one true sanctuary from all the world, The Family! To choose that lifestyle is to choose an end to a family. You cannot find comfort destroying that sanctuary.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:06amencinom
Wanna get married :-)
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:14amJohn 3:16
Actually Gallup did send me a poll, which I took.
So did Nielsen, twice. I rated Fox News # 1
Enci I bet you have never been contacted have you?
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:22amIndoctrination instead of education gets results. They can’t spell, do math, or know history but they love gays.
Report Post »TopOfTheMuffin2u
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:01amI don’t believe it! A poll just came out in Ohio saying most voters don’t support SB5 (Public union negotiations)and everyone I’ve talked to, including democrats like the bill. These polls are trying to shape our thought. Real thinkers do not follow!!!!!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:31ammust be obama voters.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:45amMe either. I’m thinking Gallup just lost some cred.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:56amWhat ever happened to “With Liberty and Justice for all”?
Report Post »ozz
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:15amNo I don’t!
Report Post »MHP
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:25am@Encinom
I truly want a date with you man to man.
Report Post »You’d love me poking your butt
You said you were gay
I’m serious.
You want to be phucked period.
As you are a Hore
I’ll find you one day. done found AKIIMEKIUS
I think he wants a ***** too
rockstone
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:54am@ sacred honor.
“Am I a former Marine and Constitutionalist?” Thank you for your service. Now…. what the hell doesn’t being a former Marine have to do with anything? Unless you mean to say that the average Marine really hate gays. I mean really, really hate gays. Is that your point? What slander! You are a disgrace to the corp pal. Again… what a slanderous and disgusting accusation to throw at your brothers.
As for you not enjoying man on man with your porn. That comment speaks for itself.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:18amNope. Sorry. Dont believe this lie for a second. Every time gay marriage has been put to the voters it is overwhelmingly shot down. Most people DO NOT believe in this deviant lifestyle and especially not the undermining of marriage.
The Communist Goals- 1963 Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
Report Post »26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
PSALMS23
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:37amMe either, is just more propaganda,try to make people believe something that isn’t so. Then they shove it down your throat,saying you are the minority….lies lies am getting sick of them !!!!!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:40amIn the poll does a shrug with raised and lowering of shoulder count as a yes, because thats what they would get in California after we voted twice against Single Gender Marriage and twice the people where overruled by the courts. In this world our vote and poll question answer have about as much weight.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:12pmThey never ask anyone outside of their “focus groups”, which is usually handpicked shills who’s views are predictable based on prior polling. Sort of like Frank Luntz‘s BS claiming Herman Cain won the republican debate while CNN’s poll said Ron Paul won the debate hands down.
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:27pmGovernment should not issue “marriage” license, conduct marriages or have one say in marriage.
Marriage is a religious ceremony, not a government ceremony. By allowing Government to intrude God is substituted by Government. We ask why marriages do not last today and that is the reason why, God is taken out of the equation and replaced by Government.
If we allow Government to issue marriage, Government must treat all people equal and allow all to partake in Government marriage.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar‘s and render unto God what is God’s. It is God’s job to marry, not Governments.
Progressive Right passed this initial law, expanding Government, to “protect” marriage, when in reality this law will destroy marriage as we see today and totally redefine it’s meaning by Government. The progressive right took their faith from God and placed it in Government, giving Government power to define it, and stripping God of this power. If any blame should be placed, it should be on the ones who lost faith in God and passed this law to begin with, the progressive right…
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:59pmrockstone
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:54am
@ sacred honor.
“Am I a former Marine and Constitutionalist?” Thank you for your service. Now…. what the hell doesn’t being a former Marine have to do with anything? Unless you mean to say that the average Marine really hate gays. I mean really, really hate gays. Is that your point? What slander! You are a disgrace to the corp pal. Again… what a slanderous and disgusting accusation to throw at your brothers.
As for you not enjoying man on man with your porn. That comment speaks for itself.
Wow. You TOTALLY read whatever you wanted from my post.
“what the hell doesn’t being a former Marine have to do with anything? Unless you mean to say that the average Marine really hate gays.”
It means…if you read my whole post,… that i served for EVERY American’s rights, and I’m sure most other Marines would agree with this. “I may disagree with you, but I‘ll fight to the death for your right to say it’ is a common creed amongst we Marines. I disagree with the lifestyle of gays, but on the issue of anything socially lawful such as marriage/union with the same benefits, i don’t believe my, or anyone else’s religious beliefs supercede their beliefs as constrained within the Constitution.
But then, you weren’t really trying to debate, just wanted the opportunity to talk trash to an Honorably Discharged Marine within the safe confines of your keyboard and monitor.
Report Post »I‘d bet my left nut that you wouldn’t say
Amren
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:13pmI believe this poll. I believe it was taken from a skewed demographic. I believe all the respondands were homosexuals. I believe I stopped believing in polls long ago.
Report Post »Now, I believe I’ll have a drink.
Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:50pmWhile I oppose the homosexual lifestyle I agree with GAYDEM4BECK.
Under his context he is right. Sexual sin is using birth control folks.
It openly defies God’s commandment. God couldn’t have spoken more clearly.
So Christians using the pill,diaphragm,Depo,pulling out,tubal,s hysterectomies (for the purpose of not having children),getting snipped……..
Report Post »It is no different than deviant sexual behavior. Because it is.
I laugh when I hear all the Christians stutter over this. My church is filled with people whose lives are so symbiotic with the world I can’t tell the difference, except they’re at church on their best behavior. No, I don‘t think I’m better than anyone else.I just take God’s Word very seriously.
Let’s judge the homos now. not so confident now I’ll bet.
rose-ellen
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:07pmAgain the right is on the wrong side of history.Every consevative right wing belief has been replaced by the left wing values[women’s rights, affirmative action,desegregation,banning prayers and other displays of religion in the public sphere,etc.The right always starts our opposseing all these left wing values only to embrace them a generation or two later.The same will happen to gay marriage;just like a Beck tauts a Rosa Parks and MLK as epitomizing all that is noble asnd great about america -even though most right wingers at the time were against desegregation-one day a Beck will taut gay marriage as another mark of american greatness.The right has no true principles except that of bigotry against whoever they’re manipulated to hate at any given time, and greedy rabid -dog -eat -dog- hyper-exploititive capitalism.The only right wing value that was truly principled and just was, I believe, their opposition to legalized abortion-a true holaucast in our midst. But even there the right has chosen to be either silent or accommodating to the GOP or tea party boat .
Report Post »AirForceMom2
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:30pmthey didn’t ask me
Report Post »kindling
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:54pmI was wondering if they took this poll in San Francisco, they never asked me.
Report Post »Trance
Posted on May 22, 2011 at 12:19amAt this point, 28% support some sort of “equal rights” for homosexuals to have a relationship recognized by the US government. And that’s just on this site.
For the first time in American history the Republicans are going to be on the wrong side of civil liberties. You are the same people who quoted scripture to condone slavery. I think this is a very good example of why we need a separation of church and state. If we leave our laws up to what we believe God says is right, we’d still have slavery, women would be obeying their husbands, we’d be sacrificing bulls, and basic human liberties would be denied to those who didn’t fall in line with what the bible says.
In other words, we’d be no better than those Muslim theocracies.
Report Post »doodad
Posted on May 22, 2011 at 1:29amYeah, now let any politician use these “non-partisan” results for their platform. We’ll see how truthful this stupid poll is. You‘d think that since the ’Rats are all for taxing people more that they‘d be against it since married couples don’t pay as big a percentage in taxes as singles do. They have convinced the easily duped morons out there that Big Oil are getting “subsidies” which they aren’t. Big Oil uses depletion as other businesses use depreciation to lower their taxes. Anyway, it would make sense for a politician against gays “marrying” to use the same argument. “Ah, we can’t afford to give subsidies to Big **** since we are $14 trillion in debt. Otherwise, I’d be soooo for turning American into Sodom…soooooo dadgum for it that I can’t stand it!” At least that‘s what I’d say.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on May 22, 2011 at 5:00amSodomites and Vagitarians….nuff said……I like sex the old fashioned way, (with sports center on in the back ground)…..I could never imagine having to go to the car wash after wards and having to hose all the mud off my lions…how does one sleep with a bed full of **** smell after wards?….just asking.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 23, 2011 at 9:37am.
Report Post »Is this another one of those polls where they sampled a random group from San Francisco?
jumbles
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:13pmAnd which civilizations are you speaking of Bryan from Florida? I suspect that you are a little nancy boy.
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