A Majority of Young Republicans Support Gay Marriage

[Redfairen]

Supporters of gay marriage may not be welcome at CPAC, but they're making huge strides everywhere else. On Thursday, Jan van Lohuizen and Joel Benenson, top campaign pollsters respectively for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, released a new study on attitudes toward marriage equality, based on 2012 exit poll data. The short of it: Even young Republicans think conservatives are fighting a losing battle.

While 53 percent of eligible voters support marriage equality, 83 percent believe same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide within five to 10 years. And for the first time, a majority of Republicans under the age of 30 support marriage equality at the state level. (Fifty-one percent do.) According to Benenson and Lohuizen, the only major demographic that still opposes same-sex marriage is white, evangelical Christians.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/majority-young-republicans-support-gay-marriage-now

[Lucky Luciano]

1. White Evangelical Christians -second from the bottom of the barrel

...Taliban/Wahabbi lunatics have a firm grip on the bottom of the barrel, but the evangelicals get an A for effort on trying to be the bottom.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. How might a bad decision from the SCOTUS on DOMA/Prop Hate affect that percentage?

[LiberalFighter]

3. The Scotus will get castrated.

[ShadowLiberal]

6. Define 'bad', bad for them or for us?

Either way, I don't think a Supreme Court decision can do anything to slow the momentum in public opinion. If there's backlash from the decision they make (no matter which way they go), it'll be backlash towards the court itself.

[otohara]

4. How Nice of Them

to enter the 21st century - now stop hating on immigrants.

[SpartanDem]

5. Good news, but don't expect to see any changes soon

GOP voters skew older and white evangelical two decidedly not gay friendly groups.

[Jamaal510]

7. Well, this is at least progress compared to older generations.

Now if only they would quit seeing poor people as lazy...