Majority Of Iowa GOP Caucus-Goers Support Gay Unions

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=10287&MediaType=1&Category=26

majority of Iowa Republican caucus-goers support either marriage or civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, a New York Times/CBS NEWS poll found.

When pollsters asked, “Which comes closest to your view? Gay couples should be allowed to legally marry OR gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry OR there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship?” twenty-two percent of respondents answered “marry,” thirty-six percent “civil unions,” thirty-eight percent “no legal recognition” and 3 percent refused to answer.

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The results arrive as GOP candidates Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are increasing their anti-gay messages in an effort to appeal to the two-thirds of Iowa voters who say they remain open to changing their minds.

Gay marriage has been legal in Iowa since 2009.

[William769]

1. Recommended.

[Pirate Smile]

2. My in-laws are rich, white, elderly, RW, Republican, Faux News watching Iowa caucus-goers.

They also have a gay grandson. Funny how that seems to influence some people's POV.

I don't know for sure how they would answer that question - either marriage or civil unions, I'm sure(Politics has become a subject we avoid like the plague since the beginning of the Iraq War). My MIL would argue with her husband about gay issues even before her grandson came out (even though everyone with a brain has known or suspected this since he was 3 years old). It was the gay guy she always went to that did her hair that made her sympathetic.