The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans’ 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population. These estimates are many times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who […] Read more »
Author of Study on Changing Views of Gay Marriage Seeks Its Retraction
The senior author of a widely publicized study suggesting that gay political canvassers could change conservative voters’ views on gay marriage has asked that the report be retracted due to the failure of his fellow author to produce the raw data. … Marcia McNutt, editor in chief of Science, said […] Read more »
Majority Now Say Gays and Lesbians Born, Not Made
For the first time, a majority of Americans say same-sex orientation is something gays and lesbians are born with rather than something that is determined by their upbringing or environment. Over the past 15 years, Americans had been much more closely divided on the issue. And in the 1970s and […] Read more »
Record-High 60% of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage
Sixty percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on its constitutionality next month. This is up from 55% last year and is the highest Gallup has found on the question since it was first asked in 1996. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Clinton is banking on the Obama coalition to win
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her party’s precarious left edge. The moves are part of a strategic conclusion by Clinton’s emerging campaign: that […] Read more »
Will Nonreligious Reshape U.S. Politics?
Don’t expect any official “Atheists for Hillary” outreach, but political progressives are cheered by a study showing a rise in the number of nonreligious Americans. It’s not because top Democrats are irreligious; both President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are persons of faith. But liberals welcomed the findings of the […] Read more »