Majority of Americans Now Favor Legalizing Gay Marriage
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Fifty-one percent of Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center, the first time the organization has found majority support for same-sex weddings.
Pew also said the ranks of Americans who believe legal same-sex marriages are “inevitable” increased to 72 percent, up from the 59 percent who expressed the same view in 2004. The poll was released as the nation awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the legality of a 2008 California initiative banning same-sex marriages.