In coverage leading up to and reporting on the Supreme Court’s decisions last week removing some obstacles to gay marriage, a persistent meme has been that Americans in the last few years are increasingly OK with same-sex marriage. The evidence cited is public opinion polling, like this Gallup poll that […] Read more »
Support for gay marriage hits high after ruling
A record majority of Americans approve of same-sex marriage in the wake of two landmark Supreme Court decisions, a USA TODAY poll finds. But the high court’s rulings that struck down provisions of the Voting Rights Act and tightened the rules on affirmative action aren’t in sync with the public’s […] Read more »
Public Divided over Same-Sex Marriage Rulings
The public is divided over last week’s Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage: 45% approve of the court’s decisions, while 40% disapprove. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center conducted June 27-30 among 1,003 adults, finds that most Americans are aware of the ruling and its implications. Two-thirds […] Read more »
Same-sex marriage and the South
… The US supreme court has, for now, left it up to states to determine whether or not marriage should be legal. While legalising gay marriage is becoming the majority opinion across the US, state polling indicates that marriage equality is far from becoming the law in every state. Surveys […] Read more »
Why did court treat two minorities so differently?
Gays win, blacks lose. That’s the upshot of this week’s landmark Supreme Court decisions. … Why did the Supreme Court treat the two minorities so differently? Because the two minorities face significantly different problems. Since the civil rights laws were passed in the 1960s, inequality has become a bigger problem […] Read more »
The GOP’s Gay-Marriage Challenge
… Republicans — the party and the rank and file — largely oppose same-sex marriage, as seen in the poll numbers, while Americans as a whole have now come to narrowly favor same-sex marriage, amid a sharp shift in recent years. If, in the wake of the court’s rulings, voters […] Read more »