BY THE PEOPLE,
FORTHEPEOPLE
Over 70 per cent of the American population
now lives in a state that allows same-sex couples
to marry.
According toWashington Post/ABC News poll in
2014, 59 per cent of poll voters nationwide
supported freedom to marry.
The same poll also found that 61 per cent of
Americans were in favour of allowing gay couples
to adopt.
A 2013 poll by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research
(ALGR) compared this growth in popular support
to the national opinion in 2003, where only 37 per
cent of voters were in favour of legal marriage for
same-sex couples, while a whopping 55 per cent
opposed it.
A later ALGR 2014 poll also found that most
respondents said that they believed marriage
equality would have either a minimal impact or
positive impact on them personally – just 21 per
cent thought it would negatively impact them.
This poll also found that support was strongest in
central and western states, with a 59 per cent and
53 per cent majority, respectively.
Washington Post poll:
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Anzalone Liszt Grove polls:
freemarry.3cdn.net/75af7977ba1ba239cb_80om67ypz.pdf
media.wix.com/ugd/c4876a_8557bedd39499386fbfba106
54181052.pdf
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n 16 January 2015, the supreme court
announced that they would finally hear
arguments about whether anti-marriage
laws nationwide should be struck down
as unconstitutional. This is scheduled to
happen in the spring of 2015.
This is important because, should the supreme
court rule in favour of marriage equality, it will make it
difficult for states to deny marriage based on sexual
orientation – leaving same-sex couples to finally marry
at leisure in their home state, whatever state that may
be. Same-sex couples throughout the nation will finally
have the same benefits that everyone else has been
enjoying all along.
Although it’s been a long road to get to this point, the
tide has now turned in America in favour of equality for
all when it comes to marriage, with the majority of
people realising that the freedom to marry the person you
love – whatever their sex – should be a basic human right.
For more information and to add your voice to
movement to win equal marriage nationwide in
America, visit
‘Although it’s been a
long road to get to this
point, the tide has now
turned in America in
favour of equality.’
Gay marriage legal
Civil unions legal
Constitution bans gay marriage
Constitution bans gay marriage
and other rights
GAYMARRIAGE – status by state on 6 Jan 2015
