A majority of Americans say they support legalizing same-gender marriage for the first time ever in a Gallup poll, according to a new survey released Friday.
Gallup is the third national poll in the last two months to show that more Americans now support the policy than oppose it.
In the poll, conducted earlier this month, Gallup found 53 percent of Americans saying that marriages between same-gender couples should be considered valid and come with the same rights as heterosexual marriages, while 45 percent said same-gender marriage should not.
A year ago, in the last Gallup survey on the issue, the numbers were reversed: 53 percent of Americans opposed same-gender marriage, while 44 percent supported it.
The Gallup poll is just the latest to find that the legalization of same-gender marriage is supported by a majority of Americans. In a shift from its previous polls, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released in April found 51 percent of Americans in support of same-gender marriage and 47 percent opposed to it. And, in March, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found 52 percent of Americans supporting same-gender marriage, also a majority opinion for the first time.
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Don’t believe it. The leftist agenda at it
Majorities are not the keepers of morality.
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@# 2: No, majorities are definitely NOT the keepers of morality. Good one.