Poll: Utah (Utah!) Now Split Evenly on Whether Gay Marriage Should Be Legal
Source: Slate
By David Weigel
Ten years ago, the voters of Utah joined 10 other states in a glorious cause: amending their state constitutions to bar gay marriage. Utah's Amendment 3, which not only defined marriage traditionally but prohibited marriage benefits for any other kind of domestic union, passed by a 6634 landslide. More Utahns would vote for Barack Obama four years later than voted for gay marriage in 2004.
Things change. A new A new Salt Lake Tribune poll of Utah, four weeks after a court struck down Amendment 3, finds the state divided 4848 on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, and totally decided7225 in favoron letting gays form domestic partnerships. Sixty-five percent of Mormons, and 64 percent of Republicans, now favor the partnerships that most of them voted to ban.
None of Utah's current representatives in Congress, not even retiring Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, believe gay marriage should be legal.
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azurnoir
(45,850 posts)especially in such a traditionally conservative state as Utah
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Civil rights should not be decided by popular opinion.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)ever thought of that! But, condescension and patronization are always welcome any way!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I was just making a statement