Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 1/14-16. Registered voters. MoE 3.1% (No trend lines)
Which of the following best describes your opinion on gay marriage: gay couples should be allowed to legally marry, or gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry, or there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship.
Marry Civil unions Neither
All 34 31 33
Dem 53 24 20
Rep 11 35 52
Ind 37 34 27
Lib 78 10 12
Mod 40 38 20
Con 8 32 57
Tea Party 17 30 52
Non-TP 42 30 27
White 33 30 35
Black 32 30 30
Latino 47 32 22
18-29 52 13 33
30-45 37 31 29
46-65 31 36 31
65+ 23 34 42
We're going to be asking this question every four weeks, so over the next several years, we should have some fascinating trendlines to look at. For now, this is our own baseline, and not surprisingly, it is conservatives/Republicans/Teabaggers who hate the notion of marriage equality. Also unsurprising -- opposition to equality is directly correlated with age, and as that older generation dies off, it is replaced with the infinitely more tolerant millenials. That's why the rightwing is desperately trying to codify their hate into law and state constitutions -- because they know the march of progress and the changing culture is headed toward a more tolerant future, not less.
But there are some surprises in this poll, if one believed the claims that African Americans and Latinos are less tolerant than whites. In fact, this poll suggests the exact opposite. Of course, the sample sizes for both those demographics is small, so these numbers could just be a function of a large margin of error. It'll be interesting to track them over time to see if they hold up as the number of Latino and African American respondents add up over time.
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