42% of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage
Politico reports:
A growing number of Americans favor allowing same-sex marriage, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Forty-two percent of respondents said they favor same-sex marriage, up 5 percentage points from 2009 and the highest number registered since Pew began asking the question in 1996.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed opposed same-sex marriage, 6 percentage points lower than in 2009 and the lowest total measure by Pew.
There was a significant generational divide on how respondents viewed gay marriage. A majority of those born after 1980, 53 percent, supported same-sex marriage, compared with 48 percent of those born between 1965 and 1980 and 38 percent of Americans born between 1946 and 1965.
Additionally, the Pew survey showed the Americans supported allowing gays to serve openly in the military by 2-to-1, at 60 percent to 30 percent.
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