WASHINGTON — NBC News/ Wall Street Journal today released a national survey on marriage equality that reflects the ongoing sea change in public opinion on the issue — across a number of demographics, including party affiliation, age, and ethnicity.
“Today’s poll is yet another sign of where the country is moving – and moving at lightning speed,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “We’ve seen significant jumps in a number of respected polls over the past few years, confirming it’s a question of when, not if, we achieve full marriage equality.”
The NBC/WSJ survey showed marriage equality has strong majority backing among Democrats (up 12 points from 2009) and a plurality of Independents (up 9 points). There was a large increase in support among African Americans – 32 percent favored in 2009 to 50 percent now. And a majority in both the 18-34 and 50-64 age brackets favor marriage for gay and lesbian couples.
Overall, 49 percent of Americans support committed, loving gay and lesbian couples getting married, according to the poll, with 40 percent opposed. In 2009, support for marriage equality was at only 41 percent, with 49 percent opposed. Other recent national polls, including from CNN, Gallup, AP, register majority support for the issue.
The poll was conducted February 29-March 3, 2012, of 800 adults, including 200 cell phone-only respondents which included GOP primary voters. The poll can be found here.
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This made me hopeful
AWESOME
My faith in America has been restored!
Change is slow. It can be difficult to see the end of the tunnel. I will not lie. I am feeling impatient, but extremely hopeful that our 10 year-old son will be allowed to see us marry before he leaves high school.
I would love for same sex marriage to pass in every state
Jenni Allison Ziegler.. That would be fricken awesome! My partner and I want to get married, but unfortunately my state doesn’t recognize it.. and we have to have a civil union. Why can’t ppl just let those of us who are happy, get married. Gay Marriages last 80% longer than those of hetrosexual marriages, whos marriage end up in divorce.
unfortunately this country does not like to compromise, that is why all republicans are hardcore and democrats are hardcore, what we need to do is compromise and not be so split up.
Bout time
THIS WHOLE WORLD NEEDS EQUALITY
NO< what we need is for the political parties to stick to politics and keep religion out of it. In short STF out of a person’s bedroom!
And all this progress will come to a screeching halt once someone like Santorum gets elected by all the American Idiots opposed to equality.
Yay! About time!
Yayyyy!!!!
The hate isn’t going to stop. Change is slow, painstakingly so. I wrote this letter-to-the-editor, and have recieve a shitstorm of hate mail from the people in my own hometown. But you know what? I don’t care. I makes me much more sad than it makes me mad. I will fight for equalitiy, even if it means condemnation from everyone I know.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/02/26/1842526/marriage-is-changing.html
This is good news and shows how out of touch the likes of the current Republican Presidential candidates are.
Long overdue!!!!
Remember to vote in the November elections for those who are fighting for us.
But there is no one fighting for us in the November elections.
Yes, It is gradually changing in the right direction – too slow though, for me. That’s partially why I left the country – I’m no spring chicken and even the gays have their bias towards older people, unlike where I am at now. ANY Republican that should (unfortunately) win will stop all progress in this issue, for sure. We have our only shot in progress with what we have now – it’s not the best shot, but, the ONLY shot for the time being.
Gary Johnson 2012,,,
im a bit sick of these politicians, they bring religion into the picture and it irritates me, there are plenty of other things they could be bashing rather than the LGBT communtiy, and or other things they could be focusing on
Yay thank you America!!!
@Kit, if religion wants to control the government so much, why don’t the churches start paying taxes?