Some good news from Pew

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

The pendulum swings a bit to the left.



The survey finds a continuing rise in support for same-sex marriage since 2009. Currently, 45% say they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally while 46% are opposed. In Pew Research surveys conducted in 2010, 42% favored and 48% opposed gay marriage and in 2009, just 37% backed same-sex marriage while 54% were opposed.

Over the same period, there has been movement toward a liberal position on abortion. In 2009, for the first time in many years, the public was evenly divided over whether abortion should be legal or illegal in all or most cases. But support for legal abortion has recovered and now stands at about the same level as in 2008 (55% then, 54% today).

Independents have become more supportive of both gay marriage and legal abortion since 2009. Roughly half of independents (51%) now favor same-sex marriage, up from 37% in 2009. And 58% of independents say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with 47% in Pew Research Center surveys two years ago.

[ananda]

1. That is good news.

nt

[Aerows]

2. As a lesbian...

... I find that to be great news. I would like to marry my partner some day. She's wonderful enough to deserve my commitment, and I think I am wonderful enough to be her wife :D

[bluestateguy]

3. This is as Nate Silver predicted

Given the generational disparity on this issue, he said we can expect to see support for marriage equality increase by about 2% a year as more young people reach voting age and increasingly outnumber the old curmudgeon bigots, who are leaving us in greater numbers each day

Father Time is a wonderful thing, if you know what I mean.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Well....yesterday I turned 67 and my thoughts about father time are less reverent.

"Old age isn't for sissies." Bette Davis

[Kber]

6. I also have personally witnessed a change in attitudes in the "older" generation

of my baby-boomer parents, which I was discussing with my father recently.

If you asked him in 1969 about gays serving with him in the Navy, he'd have voted against it. But today, partially because he thinks the active duty military members are, in his words, more "evolved" than he was at 18, he supports it.

If you asked him as recently as 10 years ago, he would have supported civil unions, but not "marriage". Since then, he's come to the conclusion that marriage is the only moral option.

Dad's always considered himself a liberal, a feminist, and pretty progressive for his times, but gay civil rights is an area where I've seen him progress in his views in the past 10 years.

Mom, dog bless her, has always been a strong civil rights champion in all ways, including GLBT issues.

[EFerrari]

5. Very good news! K&R

[Shagbark Hickory]

7. So it looks like they better hurry and write the bills for marriage equality cuz it'll be ready

to pass in about 6 months.
Provided the corporations are ok with it of course.