I don’t think people can fully comprehend how unique an issue gay marriage is when it comes to public opinion research. Most political scientists study issues that may shift a few percentage points across a decade. By and large, change in public opinion is downright glacial. Gay marriage is not that way. …
Before we get too far into the question of where the biggest shifts in opinion came from, I wanted to visualize just how much of an outlier same sex marriage is compared to other culture war issues. I grabbed two others – willingness to make pornography illegal and allowing a woman to obtain an abortion for any reason – to give a sense of how the American public looks on other topics related to morality and public policy. CONT.
Ryan P. Burge (Eastern Illinois U.), Religion in Public
