In April of 2015, Ecuador and Chile approved civil union laws for same‐sex couples. In recent years, same‐sex marriages have been recognized in Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina. Conversely, other countries in the Americas have demonstrated opposition to the idea of civil unions or marriages for same‐sex couples. For example, this […] Read more »
This Is How Many People Support Same-Sex Marriage In 23 Countries Around The World
Support for legal rights for same-sex couples tops 70% in some countries where lawmakers are attempting to jump-start attempts to establish marriage equality in the wake of Ireland’s historic vote last week. This is among the findings of a new BuzzFeed News/Ipsos poll of 23 nations which was conducted online […] Read more »
Virtually every demographic group now supports gay marriage
With the Supreme Court nearing its historic ruling on same-sex marriage, recent Gallup polling shows a remarkably broad-based public shift toward support of such unions. Earlier this month, Gallup reported that 60 percent of all adults agreed that “marriages between same-sex couples should … be recognized by the law as […] Read more »
Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues
Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level. […] Read more »
A hopeful study … debunked
A study found a short conversation with a gay person could make people more open to marriage equality, and the media reported it as a hopeful sign. But the findings were faked. Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch tells Brooke how the bad data got past the peer review process, journalists, […] Read more »
How a Gay-Marriage Study Went Wrong
Last December, Science published a provocative paper about political persuasion. Persuasion is famously difficult: study after study—not to mention much of world history—has shown that, when it comes to controversial subjects, people rarely change their minds, especially if those subjects are important to them. … The Science study, “When contact […] Read more »