PPP: Arizona strongly supports Brewer veto, gay marriage

[Tender Branson]

PPP's new Arizona poll finds not only that voters in the state agree with Jan Brewer's veto of Senate Bill 1062, but that they also for the first time support legalizing gay marriage in the state.

Only 22% of Arizonans say they support Senate Bill 1062, compared to 66% who opposed it. Opposition to the bill is bipartisan with majorities of Democrats (11/86), independents (18/64), and Republicans (34/51) alike against it. 72% say they agree with Jan Brewer's veto of it, compared to only 18% who disagree with her action.

Brewer's approval rating stands at 44/42 and that +2 spread is almost identical to the +1 she had at 47/46 the last time PPP polled on her in October of 2012. She's down slightly with Republicans from the last poll (72/18 then, 66/22 now), but up slightly with Democrats (14/82 then, 20/62 now).

For the first time in our polling we find that a plurality of Arizonans support gay marriage. 49% are in favor of it to 41% who are opposed, a net 9 movement in favor of gay marriage in the state since November of 2011 when there was 44/45 opposition to it. Voters under the age of 45 support it 55/36 with seniors the only age group against it at this point. 77% of Arizonans support at least civil union for same sex couples, including 69% of Republicans, with only 19% opposed to any form of legal recognition at all.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/03/arizona-supports-brewer-veto-gay-marriage.html

[pbrower2a]

Corporate America can live with gay rights. Eventually it will want laws standardized so that people lawfully married in one state can be so recognized in another.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."

That was the issue that got the media's attention and led to accusations of the bill being anti-gay, and the threatened boycotts that followed.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."

That was the issue that got the media's attention and led to accusations of the bill being anti-gay, and the threatened boycotts that followed.

Arizona doesn't even have legalized gay marriage. What are we protecting against, again?

You could just as easily say that the issue was that Arizona tried to pass a bill that would legalize virtually any kind of discrimination so long as it was based on religious grounds. You could also say that the bill was an OK from a governmental authority to start discriminating where no discriminating was happening before. That puts it a little closer to 72 - 18.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."

That was the issue that got the media's attention and led to accusations of the bill being anti-gay, and the threatened boycotts that followed.

Arizona doesn't even have legalized gay marriage. What are we protecting against, again?

You could just as easily say that the issue was that Arizona tried to pass a bill that would legalize virtually any kind of discrimination so long as it was based on religious grounds. You could also say that the bill was an OK from a governmental authority to start discriminating where no discriminating was happening before. That puts it a little closer to 72 - 18.

Sure, you could say that if you had no idea what the bill was you were talking about.  But I guess that was the case for most people.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I suppose. Oh well. 72-18.

[Zioneer]

Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?

That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."

That was the issue that got the media's attention and led to accusations of the bill being anti-gay, and the threatened boycotts that followed.

Arizona doesn't even have legalized gay marriage. What are we protecting against, again?

You could just as easily say that the issue was that Arizona tried to pass a bill that would legalize virtually any kind of discrimination so long as it was based on religious grounds. You could also say that the bill was an OK from a governmental authority to start discriminating where no discriminating was happening before. That puts it a little closer to 72 - 18.

Sure, you could say that if you had no idea what the bill was you were talking about.  But I guess that was the case for most people.

The bill was about having a free pass with discrimination, plain and simple. One of the top state senators behind it couldn't even give a single example of religious liberty being violated in business.