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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Homo We're Winning

Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM

Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. That's up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.

Support for same sex marriage is now at its highest point since CBS News starting asking about it in 2004.

The CBS poll finds that just 28% of Americans now say that gay relationships should be afforded no legal recognition, down from 35% in a poll taken in March. Currently 67% of Americans support either civil unions or full marriage rights for same-sex couples.

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Go ahead, get married. Join the misery of straight people...welcome to the club.

Posted by It's All Yours on April 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Plus Arlen Spectre - that was an unexpected win!

Posted by Washington Outsider on April 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM

i'll be so glad when this is over and gay people are just as boring and deluded and sexless as married straights.

Posted by Max Solomon on April 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM

You can kind of see the cultural tide turning, what with Dr. Laura and Rick Warren's recent comments on the subject. Wonder who'll be next to backtrack?

Posted by Dr. James on April 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM

It's just another point showing the outdated Republicans are losing ground. I bet this article scares the shit out of the religious right. I so need to write about this on my blog.

Posted by The Gay Atheist on April 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM

@1 & 3
It would be kinda funny if after a few years of having gay marriage, they asked to have it be made illegal again. :)

Posted by Urgutha Forka on April 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM

more gay marriage posts! go for 50 a day!!!

Posted by you can do it, Dan!!! on April 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM

The fact that only 44% of self-described conservatives support no legal recognition for gay couples, with a majority supporting either civil unions or full marriage, strikes me as the most interesting factoid in this poll. Attitudes are are definitely shifting. If Iowa and Vermont weren't the tipping point, they are definitely the prelude to the tipping point.

Posted by Matt in PDX on April 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM

More proof that armed insurrection by right thinking Americans may be the only thing that stops the Marxists and homosexuals from consolidating their power over America.

Guns are the defenders of freedom.

Posted by Lord Basil on April 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM

@9: Right, since armed dictatorship is the pinnacle of Freedom and Liberty!

Posted by Baconcat on April 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM

Dan, gaining doesn't equate winning. The race is not won until equal rights for all. Equal rights may be *gaining* in acceptance (go figure), but the term "winning" doesn't apply until you're at least close to the finish line. And sorry to be an Eeyore, here, but we're not that close to the finish line.

Posted by Allyn on April 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM

@9, Ha ha ha, was that straight out of Mein Kampf or what?

Posted by another Andy on April 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Albeit very slowly. Day of Silence was still difficult here in the Valley.

Posted by Wenatchee Mom on April 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM

@11 we still have work to do, absolutely. but don't be such a debbie downer. take the news for what it is: a sign of better things to come and a signal that what we're doing is working.

Posted by debbie doobie on April 28, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Wenatchee Mom, is are the Hutchersons going to be charged for encouraging truancy?

Posted by Loved by Jesus on April 28, 2009 at 12:23 PM

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, SLOG TROLLS?

(also, @7: don't act like this isn't the most important news of the day.)

Posted by guy on April 28, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Wouldn't it be great if gays fixed marriage? Turned it into a real contract (with a time limit maybe even) with real expectations and real obligations? I dunno. Kinks and kink-friendlies appear to be moving that way and I see nothing wrong with the open communication, honesty and negotiation it brings!!

Posted by subwlf on April 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM

67% of the country favors at least civil unions, and yet Obama won't fulfill his promise to challenge DOMA. Eff that guy; I'm not voting for him again unless something changes.

Posted by Pender on April 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM

Yes! Good news.

Posted by kim in portland on April 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM

I wonder what all those crazy righties are going to say when in a year or two the polls have a clear majority of Americans supporting marriage equality? I'm guessing something along the lines of, "the majority opinion should have no effect on marriage rights". I just can't wait!

Posted by Jen D on April 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM