{"id":13783,"date":"2015-01-27T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/what-lgbt-americans-think-of-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:20:23","slug":"what-lgbt-americans-think-of-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/01\/27\/what-lgbt-americans-think-of-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"What LGBT Americans think of same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly all LGBT Americans support same-sex marriage, but enthusiasm for this new legal change <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-gay-marriage-issue\/2015\/01\/16\/865149ec-9d96-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html\">now under review<\/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court isn&#8217;t as uniform as one might think. While the rising level of support for same-sex marriage among the general public is well known and now <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2014\/09\/24\/graphics-slideshow-changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage\/\">stands at 52%<\/a>, less known are the views among the country&#8217;s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some key facts:<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/FT_15.01.23_LGBT-2.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d9e2df\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d9e2df;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"603\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/01\/FT_15.01.23_LGBT-2.png?resize=420,603 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-25388 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/01\/FT_15.01.23_LGBT-2.png\" alt=\"LGBT, Same-Sex Marriage\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just like the general public, support for same-sex marriage differs among LGBT adults along party lines.\u00a0<\/strong>Among LGBT adults who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, support for gay marriage is not as strong as it is among Democrat LGBT adults, according to a 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/06\/13\/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a>.\u00a0A strong majority of LGBT adults of both parties favored allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, with 78% of those who lean Republican saying they &#8220;strongly favor&#8221; or &#8220;favor&#8221; same-sex marriage compared with 96% who said the same among Democrats.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A substantial share of LGBT adults say the issue of gay marriage has taken too much attention from other issues important to LGBT people<\/strong>. While 58% said same-sex marriage should be the top priority for LGBT people right now, 39% said the issue was taking too much focus away from other issues important to LGBT people. Again, there is a partisan split among LGBT adults: A smaller share of Republicans (38%) said same-sex marriage should be a top priority compared with 64% of Democrats.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Among the unmarried, LGBT Americans are more likely than the general public to say they want to get married<\/strong>, by 52% to 46%. Today, same-sex marriage is <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2015\/01\/20\/same-sex-marriage-state-by-state\/\">legal in 36 states<\/a> and the District of Columbia. (When we surveyed 1,197 LGBT adults in 2013, it was legal in 17 states and D.C.) Just a fraction of LGBT adults we surveyed were married (16%) \u2014 most of them bisexuals in opposite-sex relationships \u2014 compared with half of all U.S. adults.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When you account for religion and age, there are differences in how <em>strongly<\/em> LGBT adults favor same-sex marriage.<\/strong>\u00a0Although a large majority of religious LGBT Americans said they strongly favor same-sex marriage, the share who said so is lower than among those without a religious affiliation. Among the religiously affiliated, 67% strongly favor same-sex marriage, compared with 82% of the religiously unaffiliated.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young LGBT adults are more likely to &#8220;strongly favor\u201d same-sex marriage than their older counterparts: 82% of those ages 18 to 29 said so, compared with 71% of those 30 or older. Despite these differences, overall support for same-sex marriage remains strong: Across all age groups and regardless of religious affiliation, at least nine-in-ten LGBT adults strongly favor or favor same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LGBT Americans are split on the best way to achieve equality<\/strong>. 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