71% of Incoming Freshmen Support Same-Sex Marriage, Study Says

[xchrom]

http://www.gay.net/news/2012/01/28/71-incoming-freshmen-support-same-sex-marriage-study-says

alk about coming of age in a world that is finding homophobia increasingly difficult to explain.

Mining data from more than 200,000 first-year college students around the country, researchers at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute report that a whopping 71.3% support same-sex marriage, a 6.4 percentage-point increase compared to 2009 figures.

"Among students entering college, we're seeing a more unified support for same-sex marriage that reaches across political party lines," John H. Pryor, lead author of the report and director of CIRP, said in a statement. "Given the influence of young voters in the last presidential election, candidates may want to pay careful attention to the student perspective on these and other civil rights issues."

And in similar ways, freshmen continue to lean left more and more when faced with other “liberal” political and social issues like abortion and affirmative action. In the same study, 60.7 percent say they support full reproductive rights while 42.1 percent say they support preferential treatment in college admissions (up from 37.4 percent in 2009).

[bluestateguy]

1. Father Time is a wonderful thing

I better just leave it at that.

[William769]

2. Excpet for the ones that find being Gay a choice.

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[beyurslf]

3. Where was that in the survey?

[William769]

4. It's not in the survey.

I just like throwing stuff out there at times.

[beyurslf]

5. I caught the thread about that actress choosing to be gay after this one.

I do think young people are more inclined to say they choose their sexuality that older people are. My son is gay and almost all of his friends are gay or bi or queer or something and most of them say they choose to be open to what feels right. they are all really polyamorous, not that i think they even know what it means.