Gallup Poll - Majority of Americans Continue to Oppose Gay Marriage

Do Americans want same sex marriage? Apparently not.

From Gallup.com:

Americans' views on same-sex marriage have essentially stayed the same in the past year, with a majority of 57% opposed to granting such marriages legal status and 40% in favor of doing so. Though support for legal same-sex marriage is significantly higher now than when Gallup first asked about it in 1996, in recent years support has appeared to stall, peaking at 46% in 2007.

Those who want same sex marriage versus those who want to preserve marriage are split along ideological lines, liberal versus conservative, although not along party lines.


The Gallup analysis continues:

Just a slim majority (55%) of Democrats approve of gay marriage, but they are more likely to do so than independents (45%) and Republicans (20%).

This shows that the question of same sex marriage is not as related to party affiliation as some politicians would lead us to believe. The data on age shows older people are more likely to support marriage, while only the youngest people support same sex marriage - no surprises there.


The last graph shows something remarkable, however. The number of people who think same sex marriage is or is not harmful to society has not really changed in six years.


What does this mean for same sex marriage advocates?

• About half of the American people understand that same sex marriage is harmful to society.
• The older generations, those people who vote in this country, aren't fooled at all by the gay activists' message.
• Despite gay activists' very public campaign to change attitudes about same sex marriage over the past years, they are not succeeding. The only headway they have is with the younger population, which is one reason gay activists keep trying to inculcate homosexuality into the K-12 school system.

Sorry gay activists. We're not buying your lies.