Gay Marriage Support Update! 6 in 10 people now support Gay Marriage

From Gallup

Public support for the legality of same-sex marriage first reached a majority in 2011, when 53% supported it. Since then, support has ranged from 48% to 55%. The five-percentage-point increase in this year's Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 6-10, is the largest year-to-year climb since 2011, when support rose by nine points.

Support for the legality of gay marriages in the U.S. has been a fast-changing trend. Just two decades ago, only 27% of Americans backed gay marriage, while 68% opposed. By 2005, the percentage in favor had increased by 10 points to 37%, and by 2010 it had reached 44%.

The record high in support comes roughly one month before the Supreme Court is to issue a ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Americans, at this point, are not highly familiar with the case, with 42% following it closely -- well below the average 60% for news issues Gallup has measured over the past two decades. Attention to the case is similar among supporters and opponents of gay marriage.

New Poll: LGBT Americans have a Lower Well-Being than Straight Folks

A new Gallup poll claims that our well-being, as LGBT people, is not so great.

Here's the news:

Americans who identified as LGBT had an average Well-Being Index score of 58, compared with 62 for non-LGBT people. As Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index researchers also pointed out, that difference held true even after gender, age, race, educational attainment and other factors were taken into account.

Among the report's other findings: 35 percent of LGBT adults are thriving socially, compared with 41 percent of non-LGBT adults, while LGBT Americans are also 10 percentage points less likely to be thriving financially than their non-LGBT counterparts.

Also, LGBT women had a Well-Being Index score of 57, compared with 63 for non-LGBT women, while men who identified as LGBT had an average of 59, while those who did not identify as LGBT had an average of 61.

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Gallup Poll: 63% support Gay Adoptions

More news from a recent Gallup poll.

63% of Americans believe same-sex couples should have the legal right to adopt a child. Those numbers are extremely high from 20 years ago.

Here's more:

These findings are from Gallup's May 8-11 Values and Beliefs survey. Gallup has been asking slight variations of this question since 1992. Overall, support has shifted from a clear majority in the 1990s saying same-sex or homosexual couples should not be legally permitted to adopt children to the opposite now.

Americans' support for adoption by same-sex couples is higher than their support for same-sex marriage, measured in a recent Gallup poll showing majority support for same-sex marriage at 55%. According to an expert in public policy related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, this is not unusual.

"In general, adults in the U.S. continue to be more supportive of same-sex parenting than legal recognition of same-sex relationships or comfortableness with same-sex sexual behavior," said Gates. "Laws in the U.S. have reflected this pattern in public support. Many states in the U.S. that have not formally repealed sodomy laws, despite the U.S. Supreme Court declaring such statutes unconstitutional, and that do not recognize marriage for same-sex couples include jurisdictions that allow same-sex couples to adopt children."

Gallup Poll: Americans are Split on being Gay at Birth

Interesting findings here.

Many Americans are split on the notion that we are born Gay.

Here's more:

These results are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 8-11. Americans' views on this question have evolved over time. When Gallup first asked about the origins of same-sex orientation in 1977, over half of Americans (56%) attributed it to an individual's upbringing and environment, while 13% believed it to be something a gay person is born with.

This gap in opinions narrowed over the time, and by 2001, Americans were more likely to believe in homosexuality as occurring at birth (40%) for the first time, though only by one percentage point. Since then, Americans have been roughly equally divided over this question, although with some year-to-year fluctuations in the precise percentages. Although this pattern appeared to be changing last year, when the belief that people are born gay rose to an all-time high of 47% after a slight increase in 2012, this year's slight downtick in the "born with" belief, halted the trend.

The scientific community does not agree on one unified viewpoint regarding the issue of a person's sexual orientation. According to the American Psychological Association, "there is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay, or lesbian orientation."

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Support for Gay Marriage rises to 55%

A new Gallup poll shows high support for marriage equality. Among young folks, the numbers are moving beyond the 50 percent mark!

Actually, it's at 55 percent with 78 percent of people ages 18 to 29 years old.

Only in the South, the support is a bit low at 48 percent. Still, it's an increase.

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Washington D.C. is the Gayest Place in the US

Look out Cali and New York, Washington D.C. has the most gays in the nation. Gallup poll says that D.C. is not only the Chocolate City, but the Rainbowville as well.

I'm a little surprised by this to be honest. I thought, Cali was on top on the list. 

Gallup ranks the Gayest States in America

from JMG

From Gallup:

As was outlined in the first report of these data in October, measuring sexual orientation and gender identity can be challenging because these concepts involve complex social and cultural patterns. There are a number of ways to measure lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientation, and transgender status. Gallup chose a broad measure of personal identification as LGBT because this grouping of four statuses is commonly used in current American discourse, and as a result has important cultural and political significance. One limitation of this approach is that it is not possible to separately consider differences among lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgender individuals. A second limitation is that this approach measures broad self-identity, and does not measure sexual or other behavior, either past or present.

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New Poll: One in Seven Americans approve of Congress

Congress are at the bottom of the barrel with the country. As you saw in the title, only 1 out of 7 supports them according to the Gallup poll.

Here's more:

The poll was conducted about a week after the contentious fiscal cliff debate on Capitol Hill concluded and days after the new Congress was sworn in. That body has much ahead of it in the next few months - the U.S. will face default if the debt ceiling isn't raised, the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester will trigger on March 1 and the government runs out of funding later that month. Add to that some lawmakers' desire for action after the Newtown elementary school shooting and President Barack Obama's Cabinet nominees, and this Congress has a full plate.

The 14% approval rating is about as well as Congress scored after the 2011 debt ceiling showdown. In August and September of that year, they scored 13% and 15% approval ratings. The stalemate on Capitol Hill led to the creation of the sequester and to the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

This is not the lowest rating of Congress. They hit 10% in August.

One in Five LGBT Americans Are Conservative

In a new Gallup poll, we learn something about our conservative fam... 1 in 5 claim to be repubs.

Here are the results:

While 45% of LGBT individuals describe their political views as liberal or very liberal, one in five (20%) describe themselves as conservative or very conservative. Among non-LGBT Americans, 23% say they are liberal, and two in five (39%) say they are conservative. LGBT and non-LGBT individuals are almost equally likely to think of themselves as moderate (35% and 38%, respectively).

Interesting... Makes me wonder how many closeted GOP we really have.

Black Gays make up a Huge Chunk of LGBT Community

This week, the Gallup Poll revealed some info about the large numbers of POC (people of color) in the LGBT community.

And a new piece has grown from that data. Apparently, Black folks makes up a huge chunk of those numbers.

According to the report, released by Gallup earlier this week, 4.6 percent of African Americans responded "yes" when asked if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, along with four percent of Hispanics, 4.3 percent of Asians and 3.2 percent of Caucasians.

"This data reveals that, relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of non-white people and clearly is not overly wealthy," said study author and demographer Gary Gates, of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute. 

If this is the case, then we need to use this info as a way to change the game. We should start telling the world our stories and make sure we are being recognized.

This info is a breath of interesting air 

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New Gallup Poll: People of Color More Likely to Identify as LGBT

Interesting news this morning.

A new Gallup Poll revealed some interesting pieces in their latest survey. More people of color are identifying as LGBT.

Here's the scoop:

Nonwhites are more likely than white segments of the U.S. population to identify as LGBT. The survey results show that 4.6% of African-Americans identify as LGBT, along with 4.0% of Hispanics and 4.3% of Asians. The disproportionately higher representation of LGBT status among nonwhite population segments corresponds to the slightly below-average 3.2% of white Americans who identified as LGBT.

 Interesting... Also 3.4% of the US population identify as LGBT. We're growing, people.

Read the whole Sh-Bang here

44% of folks don't know Obama's religion

This is a hot ass mess.

Many folks in this country are seriously in need of some education. According to this new Gallup poll,  34% of Americans thinks President Obama is a Christian, but 44% of folks don't know Obama's religion and 11% thinks he's a Muslim.

Again, a hot ass mess.

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New Poll: Obama tied with Perry? Beaten by Romney?

Lord, what's really going on?

Fears over the economy and jobs got folks losing their minds. Check out the latest Gallup poll

So when it gets tough, folks just lose it? Tells you something about our country.

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66% of America People support 2 Major Parts of the Tax Compromise

Days after Obama's Tax Cuts Framework was released, folks had a field day declaring their anger towards him.

Now as the dust settled, more folks are understanding it. In fact, according to a Gallup poll, 66% of American people agree with the 2 major parts of tax plan

Two major elements included in the tax agreement reached Monday between President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in Congress meet with broad public support. Two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for all Americans for two years, and an identical number support extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed.

According to Gallup polling conducted Dec. 3-6, the slight majority of Democrats, as well as most independents and Republicans, would vote for a two-year extension of the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003.

This differs slightly from a November Gallup poll giving Americans three options for extending the Bush tax cuts. That poll found 40% in favor of extending the tax cuts for all Americans, 44% in favor of extending them with limits on tax breaks for the wealthy, and 13% in favor of letting the tax breaks expire altogether. Nevertheless, the results of the new question suggest that, while the compromise position on taxes may not be their ideal, most Americans would support congressional passage of it.

In terms of extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, more rank-and-file Republicans say they would vote against this than for it; however, the vast majority of independents and Democrats are in favor.

This is some interesting info, because the way Keith Olbermann and others spouted out on Monday, you would think everybody hated this. Well, I think we were hearing 1st reactions, but to the millions who are unemployed, this was very helpful. Plus, there could be more changes that should help more people. So let's see how this goes, it seems to be changing everyday.

28% of Americans are Idiots

Tea Party folks are this year's (and more to come) super joke.

And, they make up over a quarter of America, according to a new Gallup Poll

The poll results suggest that along several demographic planes --including age, employment status and race-- Tea Party supporters resemble the population at large. 79 percent of Tea Partiers, for example, are "non-Hispanic white", as compared with 75 percent of the entire country.

The poll confirms, however, that Tea Party supporters overwhelmingly skew Republican and conservative. 49 percent of all self-identified Tea Party supporters classified themselves as Republican; a total of 92 percent were either Republican or Independent, with a mere 8 percent identifying themselves as Democrats.

Good Grief!

Obama's big with the Smarties

A new poll states that Obama is still a shiny star among folks with postgraduate education.

Here's some gems

• Postgraduate men and women are Obama's greatest supporters among gender and educational groups. Obama fares especially well among women with postgraduate education (64%). Whereas postgraduates are the only educational group among men that shows at least 50% approval for Obama, all four educational groups among women do. Also, there are essentially no gender differences among those with a high school education or less, but notable gender gaps at higher education levels.

• The relationship between educational attainment and support for Obama is not the same within all demographic subgroups. For example, the educational effects are quite pronounced among non-Hispanic whites, with double-digit gaps between postgraduates and those without postgraduate education. In contrast, there are essentially no educational differences among blacks. Roughly 9 in 10 blacks approve of Obama, regardless of their educational background.

• The support of postgraduates, who tend to be more liberal and Democratic in their political orientation, was important to Obama's being elected president. Since he has become president, postgraduates have been among his more reliable supporters, backing him at higher levels than do those in other educational groups.

Interesting. Maybe this explains my blind Obama faith.

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