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Which polls do you trust most? Pick any that you like. The following 17 polls are run by different organizations, with different goals, by different people with different backgrounds. Yet they all agree on at least one thing: The overwhelming majority of people living in the United States are now in favor of same-sex "marriage". This is one conclusion that all these polls share in common:
Gallup
Pew Research Center
Public Religion Research Institute
American National Election Studies
American Values Atlas
Reuters
CNN/ORC
NBC News
USA Today
CBS News/YouGov
Bloomberg National
Washington Post/ABC News
Wall Street Journal
New York Times/Siena
Quinnipiac University
Grinnell College
Selzer & Company
According to recent polling data, here are numbers reported for some of the most "conservative" states in America:
Missouri - 63% support same-sex "marriage"
Alabama - 53% support same-sex "marriage"
Indiana - 67% support same-sex "marriage"
Florida - 69% support same-sex "marriage"
Kansas - 69% support same-sex "marriage"
Texas - 62% support same-sex "marriage"
Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has significantly changed since the 1990s, and an overwhelming majority of Americans now favor same-sex marriage.
Approval of same-sex marriage is higher in younger generations; among 18–34 year olds, support is near-universal. From 1988 to 2009, support for recognized same-sex marriage increased between 1% and 1.5% per year, and accelerated thereafter, rising above 50% in Pew Research Center polling for the first time in 2011. A 2022 Public Religion Research Institute poll found that a majority of people in every state support same-sex marriage except in Mississippi, where there is plurality support.
A 2023 New York Times/Siena poll found that 70% of Americans support same-sex marriage and 22% oppose it. Garretson (2018) writes:
"The transformation of America's response to homosexuality has been — and continues to be — one of the most rapid and sustained shifts in mass attitudes since the start of public polling."
Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has changed radically since polling of the American people regarding the issue was first conducted in 1988. The issue of same-sex marriage was not brought up as an issue for public debate until at least the 1950s and was not a political issue until the 1970s.
According to statistician Nate Silver of the poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight, from 1988 to April 2009, support for same-sex marriage increased between 1% and 1.5% per year and about 4% from April 2009 to August 2010. A Pew Research Center poll, conducted from May 21, 2008, to May 25, 2008, found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans did not oppose same-sex marriage, with opposition having fallen to 49%. A CNN/Opinion Research poll, conducted from August 6, 2010, to August 10, 2010, found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans supported same-sex marriage at 52%.
Continual polling by Gallup over the course of more than two decades has shown that support for same-sex marriage has grown rapidly, while opposition has simultaneously collapsed. In 1996, 68% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage, while only 27% supported. In 2018, 67% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while only 31% opposed. As of 2018, 60% of Americans said they would not mind if their child married someone of the same gender.
Source: Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States
The quickest path to destruction is a lack of procreation. Please someone explain to me how a society can continue to exist with these values and lack of morality? There will be no future generations to poll if this continues.
Is it not Illegal in Russia?