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Some of the nation\u2019s religious and socially conservative leaders are gathering in Washington this weekend for the Values Voter Summit<\/a>, which includes a panel discussion on \u201cThe Future of Marriage.\u201d This is the first time the group has met since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned<\/a> a key provision in the federal Defense of Marriage Act that prevented legally wed same-sex couples from receiving all the federal benefits currently available to married couples of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n\n

Support for same-sex marriage has been growing in recent years<\/a>, with half (50%) of Americans now in favor and 43% opposed. While support is considerably lower among those who identify as white evangelical Protestant, Republican or politically conservative, support for same-sex marriage has risen even among these groups over the past decade, according to aggregated Pew Research data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Today, roughly three-in-ten Republicans (29%) and political conservatives (30%) say they support same-sex marriage, compared with 12 years ago, when 21% of Republicans and 18% of conservatives expressed this view. About a quarter (23%) of white evangelical Protestants now say they favor same-sex marriage, compared with 13% in 2001.<\/p>\n\n

Some of this shift in opinion is attributable to members of the Millennial generation (those born since 1980), who express higher levels of support for same-sex marriage than older age groups.<\/p>\n\n

For example, data from Pew Research surveys from March and May 2013<\/a> show that adults under age 30 who say they are Republican or lean Republican are much more supportive of same-sex marriage (54%) than Republicans 65 and older (18%). At the same time, younger Republicans are much less supportive of same-sex marriage than those in the 18-29 age bracket who are Democrats or lean Democratic (54% vs. 76%).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Support for same-sex marriage has been growing in recent years, with half (50%) of Americans now in favor and 43% 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