Support for same-sex marriage grows sharply in U.S., survey finds

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The American Values Atlas finds a big increase in support for LGBTQ issues across all races and ethnicities and almost all faiths.

Source: NBC News, by Alex Johnson

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The survey — one of the most extensive of its kind, questioning more than 40,000 Americans in weekly installments for eight months last year — focused on issues of importance to the LGBTQ community, including same-sex marriage and protections against discrimination in housing, public accommodations and employment.

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The Public Religion Research Institute found that supporters of same-sex marriage now make up majorities among Democrats and Republicans; blacks, whites and Latinos; Catholics; and most white mainline Protestant denominations.

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Perhaps not surprisingly, only two groups significantly aligned with conservative Republicanism statistically — Mormons and white evangelicals — continue to support allowing merchants to refuse to provide goods and services to same-sex couples, both at 53 percent. Black Protestants, by contrast, oppose refusing such service by almost two-thirds, the institute reported.

"The country has reached a milestone moment in the debate over LGBT rights," said Dan Cox, the institute's research director. "At a time when Americans are more divided than ever, the sea change in support for LGBT rights that now crosses lines of race, ethnicity, religion and geography means that LGBT rights are becoming one of the few areas of public agreement."

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Regarding "refusal of service" on religious grounds:

"While religious liberty is a widely held value, most believe that small businesses that are open to the public should serve all customers and that personal religious objections of the owners should not be allowable grounds for refusing service to gay and lesbian customers," said the institute's chief executive, Robert P. Jones, co-chairman of religion and politics for the American Academy of Religion.

Majorities of white evangelicals and Mormons may remain opposed to refusing service, Jones said, but "combined, they represent less than 1 in 5 Americans today."

Read it all at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/support-same-sex-marriage-grows-sharply-u-s-survey-finds-n870586


This cake is baked!

[MineralMan]

1. Isn't this the same survey you reported on already?

Sure sounds like it. Same survey organization. Same data. Just a different report on it from a different place.

My reaction is the same, too.

[Lordquinton]

2. Weird

Guess he didn't get the response he wanted. I also noticed the actual graph is missing from this one.

[guillaumeb]

3. But this contradicts the narrative!!!!!!

So it must be ignored.