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TexasTowelie

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Sun Apr 30, 2017, 04:36 AM Apr 2017

Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds Of Texans Now Support Same-Sex Marriage

As Republican state lawmakers try to chip away at LGBT rights in Austin, a new poll shows that a solid majority of Texans now support same-sex marriage.

The poll from Texas Tech University’s Earl Survey Research Lab found that 64 percent of Texans back marriage equality, while only 28 percent oppose it.

The last time the same poll included a question about same-sex marriage, in 2015, only 49 percent supported it, the Lubbock Avalance-Journal reports.

Results from the new poll, conducted between March 20 and April 13, were released 22 months after the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, made same-sex marriage legal in Texas and across the nation. The poll also comes in the midst of the state legislative session, in which right-wing lawmakers are seeking to roll back the rights of same-sex couples, by allowing adoption agencies, businesses, clerks and other entities to discriminate against them based on religious beliefs.

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2017/04/poll-shows-nearly-two-thirds-of-texans-now-support-same-sex-marriage/

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Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds Of Texans Now Support Same-Sex Marriage (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP
the more gay folk come out, the harder it is to demonize them Skittles Apr 2017 #1
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