Have you always supported/opposed gay marriage or have you changed your mind?

[nclib]

i.e. Since you've had an opinion on the issue/since the issue's been addressed, have you changed your mind?

Option 1 for me.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Option 2, but its been a long, long time since I've been opposed to it.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Always supported (gay).

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

i think i was into the whole "but why not just have civil unions :V" thing when i was like thirteen or fourteen, but i've never been to the right of that. voted option 1.

[Bigby]

Option 2. I began to support it during my first semester of college.

[Abraham Reagan]

Probably the only person to start out supporting but now oppose.

[Crumpets]

Option 1. If I remember right, the way I found out about the controversy at all was when I was a kid and I was talking to my mom's friends who are a lesbian couple. I had always just assumed they were married, given that they live together and were planning on having a kid. When I found out they weren't (being a kid) I asked "why not?" and they said because it's illegal, to which I said something like "well that's stupid."

However, I was pretty okay with the concept of civil unions for a while, since I was under the impression that having legal gay marriage would "force" churches into performing gay marriages against their will. That changed in about 6th grade when one of my friends pointed out to me that having civil unions prevents churches that want to perform gay marriages from having that recognized by the state.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Probably the only person to start out supporting but now oppose.

Why, did it get too gay?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Probably the only person to start out supporting but now oppose.

Is it because of the pension abuse?

[Abraham Reagan]

Probably the only person to start out supporting but now oppose.

Why, did it get too gay?

Haha, no.

It was actually more about me going from being an atheist liberal to a Catholic conservative.

[Intell]

Always supported it, never seen the reason to oppose same-sex marriage.

[Goldwater]

There might have been a point in time where I thought it should be "left to the states", but I've never been opposed to it.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Option 2 , around Jan 2014 in my junior year of high school

[Antonio the Sixth]

I've gone from not caring to supporting it wholeheartedly (and despising the arguments brought forward by its opponents) but still considering it a relatively minor issue.

[TDAS04]

Back around 2004, I probably would said that I opposed it (I didn't really accept that I was gay back then).

I've strongly supported since about 2007.  Even though I have no plans to marry, I obviously don't favor laws rooted in bigotry against people like myself.

[ElectionsGuy]

I've never opposed it. Even when I called myself a Republican back in 2012 it was one area where I never understood opposition to it.

[Clark Kent]

Somewhere between options 1 and 4, leaning towards 1.

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I've always been for it. It was actually one of the two first political issues I knew about (the other was climate change; I actually thought I was a "conservative" because I supported conservation efforts).

[morgieb]

I can't remember ever not supporting it. I also never bought into the whole civil unions tosh either AFAIK.

[afleitch]

Probably the only person to start out supporting but now oppose.

Why, did it get too gay?

Haha, no.

It was actually more about me going from being an atheist liberal to a Catholic conservative.

What was it in you finding faith made you see gay couples differently, For a gay couple together for decades what made you think 'this isn't love'?

[BaconBacon96]

Supported it from the time I first heard it.

[ingemann]

Even when I was a homophobic teenager I failed to see why I should be against gay marriage/civil union, it wasn't something which affected me.

[politicus]

I have never been against it per se, but I thought it a bit silly at first, since we already had civil unions with full equality (well, not adoption rights, but that was how I viewed it back then). Didn't really understand the importance of appropriating the term marriage itself and saw it as an unnecessary provocation to cultural conservatives and traditional Christians. I would have supported it in a referendum based on "if its important to the gay community let them have it", but still considered the whole thing an unnecessary distraction from far more important equality issues for years. Was - and still is - against forcing the church to accept it by law, but that has more to do with a general opposition to the whole established church thing (which I think drags the church down and force it to spend its resources on the wrong things).

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Initially, I supported civil union, thinking "what's the big deal?". My perspective changed after I've learned that a very close friend of mine is a Lesbian.

[Higgs]

Option 2 I guess. Thought it should be civil unions a few years ago and now IDGAF.