CV NEWS FEED // A Gallup poll released this week found that support for legal same-sex “marriage” fell among Republicans, Democrats, and independents over the past year.
The decline was most significant among Republican voters, who are nine percentage points less likely to back gay “marriage” today than in 2022.
In its annual poll, Gallup asks respondents: “Do you think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?”
This year, 46% of Republicans, 83% of Democrats, and 74% of independents polled indicated that same-sex “marriages” should be recognized as “valid.”
Last year, these percentages were 49%, 84%, and 77% respectively.
This marked the first time since 2012 that support for gay “marriage” had fallen from the previous year among Americans of all three political affiliations.
When the same question was asked in 2022, 55% of Republicans – a majority – stated that they believed gay “marriage” should be “valid.”
Aside from 2022, 2021 was the only other year in which a majority of Republicans polled by Gallup indicated they supported gay “marriage.” That year, 55% of Republicans also said it should be “valid.”
National Review’s James Lynch noted that the “downward trend reverses a decade of steady increases in Republican support for gay marriage, which stood at 22 percent in 2012, and five years later reached 47 percent support.”
On the other hand, Lynch pointed out, a “majority of Democrats have supported legalizing gay marriage since 2004, and independents have taken that position since 2011.”
In Gallup’s 2022 poll, 87% of Democrats indicated they supported same-sex “marriage.” This shows that among Democrats, support for same-sex “marriage” has fallen four points in the last two years.
This Wednesday, June 26, marks nine years since the Supreme Court’s landmark 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges was announced, redefining marriage nationwide.
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