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Majority supports U.S. benefits for same-sex couples: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Source: Reuters
Majority supports U.S. benefits for same-sex couples: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Maurice Tamman and Joan Biskupic
WASHINGTON | Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:11am EDT
(Reuters) - As the Supreme Court prepares to decide whether the federal government may deny benefits to same-sex married couples that it allows their heterosexual counterparts, Americans seem already to have made up their minds.
Fifty-five percent of those surveyed said married gay and lesbian couples should be able to qualify for Social Security survivor payments and other benefits provided to married heterosexual couples, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling of 2,886 people between March 5 and March 14.
Majority support for such benefits was seen across all regions of the United States, even in the traditionally more conservative South.
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A more extensive Reuters/Ipsos poll of 24,455 people between January 1 and March 14 found only a quarter of Americans opposed same-sex marriage or civil unions, although there were deep regional differences of opinion. Overall, that Reuters poll found 63 percent supported gay marriage or civil unions, with 41 percent of people saying same-sex couples should be permitted to marry.
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By Maurice Tamman and Joan Biskupic
WASHINGTON | Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:11am EDT
(Reuters) - As the Supreme Court prepares to decide whether the federal government may deny benefits to same-sex married couples that it allows their heterosexual counterparts, Americans seem already to have made up their minds.
Fifty-five percent of those surveyed said married gay and lesbian couples should be able to qualify for Social Security survivor payments and other benefits provided to married heterosexual couples, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling of 2,886 people between March 5 and March 14.
Majority support for such benefits was seen across all regions of the United States, even in the traditionally more conservative South.
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A more extensive Reuters/Ipsos poll of 24,455 people between January 1 and March 14 found only a quarter of Americans opposed same-sex marriage or civil unions, although there were deep regional differences of opinion. Overall, that Reuters poll found 63 percent supported gay marriage or civil unions, with 41 percent of people saying same-sex couples should be permitted to marry.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/20/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-poll-idUSBRE92J0FA20130320