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AMERICANS OPPOSE SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE"

30 States have passed state marriage amendments -- INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, THE MOST LIBERAL STATE IN THE NATION.

70% of Blacks voted for marriage in 2008.

3 states had same-sex “marriage” forced upon them by judicial activists who circumvented the democratic process (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa).

Same-Sex Marriage, Homosexual "Rights"

CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. May 14-17, 2009. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
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"Do you think gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid?"
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		Yes	No	Unsure
		%	%	%
	5/14-17/09	45	54	1

Same-Sex “Marriage,” Homosexual "Rights"

CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. May 14-17, 2009. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
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"Do you think gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid?"
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		Yes	No	Unsure
		%	%	%
	5/14-17/09	45	54	1

FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. May 12-13, 2009. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3. LV = likely voters. Except where noted, results below are among registered voters.
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"Do you believe gays and lesbians should be allowed to get legally married, allowed a legal partnership similar to but not called marriage, or should there be no legal recognition given to gay and lesbian relationships?"
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		Legally Married	Legal Partnership	No Legal Recognition	Unsure
		%	%	%	%
	5/12-13/09	33	33	29	5
	11/4-5/06 LV	30	30	32	7
	6/13-14/06	27	25	39	8
	5/04	25	26	40	9
	3/04	20	33	40	7
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"In general, do you think straight people in your community who have traditional religious values are tolerant of gays and lesbians and their beliefs, or not? . . ."
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		Very Tolerant	Somewhat Tolerant	Somewhat Intolerant	Very Intolerant	Unsure
		%	%	%	%	%
	5/12-13/09	22	45	14	14	6
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"In general, do you think gays and lesbians in your community are tolerant of straight people who have traditional religious values and their beliefs, or not? . . ."
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		Very Tolerant	Somewhat Tolerant	Somewhat Intolerant	Very Intolerant	Unsure
		%	%	%	%	%
	5/12-13/09	32	35	10	9	13

Quinnipiac University Poll. April 21-27, 2009. N=2,041 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 2.2.
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"Would you support or oppose a law in your state that would allow same-sex couples to get married?"
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		Support	Oppose	Unsure
		%	%	%
	4/21-27/09	38	55	7

"Under current federal law states can refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Do you think this law should remain in existence or not?"

Should

Should Not

Unsure

4/21-27/09

"In general, do you think society is paying too much, too little, or about the right amount of attention to the needs of gays and lesbians?"
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		Too Much	Too Little	About Right	Unsure
		%	%	%	%
	4/21-27/09	49	21	22	8
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"Some people say that ending discrimination against gay men and women is as necessary today as ending discrimination against blacks was in the 1960s. Do you agree or disagree?"
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		Agree	Disagree	Unsure
		%	%	%
	4/21-27/09	44	50	6

Eighty-four percent of people around the world agreed that “the definition of marriage is one man and one woman.”
Wirthlinn Worldwide for The Howard Center and Brigham Young University, World Congress of Families II, (1999, November).

Annenberg Election Survey (May 2004) “Would you favor or oppose a law in your state that would allow two men to marry each other or two women to marry each other?”
Young adults (ages 18-29) oppose SSM by a margin of 50% to 42%.

Quinnipiac University (March 2004) “Would you support or oppose a law that would allow same-sex couples to get married?”
Young adults (18-29) oppose SSM by a margin of 51% to 45%.

The March 2005 Gallup poll also showed the proportion of Americans who support a constitutional amendment defining marriage has risen seven points from 50 to 57 percent. Most strikingly, a recent UCLA poll showed support for gay marriage dropping among college students.

Between September 2003 and August 2004, polling by ABC News and the Washington Post [“Do you think it should be legal or illegal for homosexual couples to get married?”] found opposition to gay marriage increased 7 percentage points, from 55 percent to 62 percent. Over that period, support for same-sex marriage dropped five points, from 37 percent to 32 percent. Americans now oppose same-sex “marriage” by a margin of 62 percent to 32 percent.

Between June 2003 and March 2005, Gallup polling [“Do you think marriages between homosexuals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?”] found opposition to same-sex “marriage” climbed 13 percentage points, from 55 percent to 68 percent.

The March 2005 finding is the highest level of opposition to same-sex “marriage” ever recorded in a Gallup poll (equaling the results of March 1996 polling). Meanwhile, during the same period, the proportion of Americans who support same-sex “marriage” dropped 11 percentage points, from 39 percent to 28 percent. Americans in the latest Gallup poll now oppose same-sex “marriage” 68 percent to 28 percent.

The significant increase in opposition to same-sex “marriage” which occurred during the fall of 2003 has been sustained over the past eighteen months. After leveling off in the spring of 2004, several recent polls suggest that opposition has once again begun to climb.

As opposition to same-sex “marriage” has risen, so has support for a constitutional amendment which would define marriage as the union of a husband and wife throughout the United States.