Resistance to Gay Marriage Shrinking, and Confined to Old White People

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Study: Opposition to same-sex marriage narrow, shrinking

By Karen Tumulty and Tom Hamburger
The Washington Post

Exit polls and other surveys from the November election suggest that resistance to same-sex marriage is shrinking and mainly concentrated among certain segments of the population: older people, white evangelical Christians and non-college-educated whites.

That is the analysis of a new study of the data by two pollsters, one a Democrat and the other a Republican.

“Significant opposition to the freedom to marry is increasingly isolated within narrow demographic groups while a much broader and more diverse majority are ready to let same-sex couples marry,” wrote Joel Benenson, who led President Obama’s polling operation in 2008 and 2012, and Jan van Lohuizen, who did the same job for former President George W. Bush.

Their research, being released Thursday, was commissioned by Freedom to Marry, an organization that promotes establishing a national right to same-sex marriage. It is a follow-up to a May 2011 report in which the pollsters found support for such unions had accelerated, starting around 2009.