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Poll: Majority now favors same-sex marriage
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 18, 2011 11:10am |
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| Author | ANDY BARR |
| News Date | Friday, March 18, 2011 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows a majority of Americans support gay marriage, adding more fuel to Democrats’ effort to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Fifty-three percent of those surveyed in the poll, released Friday, said gay marriage should be legal, marking the first time in that survey that a majority has backed gay marriage.
Only five years ago, the percentage of respondents who supported gay marriage stood at just 32 percent.
The poll is partially corroborated by a Democratic poll released earlier this week showing 51 percent of those surveyed opposed to the Defense of Marriage Act. That poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, found 51 percent oppose a federal that prohibits recognition of legally performed marriages, and 34 percent in favor of the law.
The Justice Department announced last month that it will cease defending the law in court. Democrats on Capitol Hill are now working to repeal the law, enacted in 1996, which bars official federal government recognition of same-sex unions. House Republicans, however, have vowed to protect the law.
Same-sex marriage marriage is currently legal in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, Connecticut and the District of Columbia. Despite some successes though, the push for gay marriage in the states has been mixed. A ballot proposition outlawing gay marriage passed in left-leaning California in 2008 and is currently the subject of a federal lawsuit; in Maryland, a bill that would have allowed gay marriage died in the state House this week. |
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