{"id":557323,"date":"2021-06-08T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557323"},"modified":"2021-06-08T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:06:17","slug":"republican-support-for-gay-marriage-surpasses-50-for-first-time-ever-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-support-for-gay-marriage-surpasses-50-for-first-time-ever-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Support For Gay Marriage Surpasses 50% For First Time Ever, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-support-for-gay-marriage-surpasses-50-for-first-time-ever-poll-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-615526928-scaled-e1623184194763.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>For the first time since Gallup began polling the issue in 1996, a majority of Republicans in the U.S. are supportive of legalized gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>55% of Republicans said that same-sex marriages should be recognized as valid by law, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/350486\/record-high-support-same-sex-marriage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the poll conducted this May<\/a>. Legal gay marriage is supported by 83% of Democrats, 73% of independents and 70% of Americans as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"16.374233128834\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Record 70% back gay marriage in Gallup, *including a majority of Republicans* for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>55% of GOP back<\/p>\n<p>Note for future: ***84%*** 18-34 year-olds<\/p>\n<p>Remarkable change from \u201996, when just 27% supported, and 2005, when Bush led failed effort to ban in U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenTDennis\/status\/1402224693797662723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Only 27% of Americans supported same-sex marriage in 1996, and Republicans have been the least supportive political group since then. Just 16% of Republicans supported gay marriage at that time, and the GOP has been about 40 points less supportive than Democrats for most of recent history. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/weightlifting-laurel-hubbard-biological-male-transgender-athlete-womens-sports-tokyo-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Laurel Hubbard Could Become First Biological Male To Compete In A Women\u2019s Sport At Tokyo Olympics)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support has ticked up among Republicans around 15 points since Donald Trump became the party\u2019s presidential nominee in 2016. Trump was the first American president to openly support legal same-sex marriage upon entering the White House, and he went as far as to hold up an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/catholics-lgbtq-pride-flag-embassy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBT pride flag<\/a> on stage during a 2016 campaign rally.<\/p>\n<p>Support is highest among young people, with 84% of 18-34 years old in favor of gay marriage, according to Gallup. Americans 55 years of age and older are slightly supportive as well, though, with a record high of 60% expressing agreement with legalization.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp increase in support among Republicans also coincides with the Obergefell Supreme Court decision in 2015, which effectively legalized gay marriage in all fifty states. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/gov-ron-desantis-tucker-carlson-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018You Can\u2019t Be Cowed\u2019: Ron DeSantis Drops The Hammer On \u2018Woke Corporations\u2019 After Banning Biological Men From Women\u2019s Sports)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The battleground in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/joe-biden-transgender-health-care-policy-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBT politics<\/a> has seemingly shifted largely from gay marriage to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/tanner-cross-loudoun-county-school-administrative-leave-transgender-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issues centering on transgender individuals<\/a>, with Republican leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/27\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-signs-bill-transgender-student-athletes-biological-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passing a number of new laws<\/a> across the country to outlaw biological males from competing in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/usa-today-female-biological-males-sports-transgender-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women\u2019s sports<\/a> and to maintain sex-based separation in places like bathrooms and locker rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since Gallup began polling the issue in 1996, a majority of Republicans in the U.S. are supportive of legalized gay marriage.55% of Republicans said that same-sex &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279665,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-615526928-scaled-e1623184194763.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republican Support For Gay Marriage Surpasses 50% For First Time Ever, Poll Finds","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-615526928-scaled-e1623184194763.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republican Support For Gay Marriage Surpasses 50% For First Time Ever, Poll Finds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}