Poll: Support for Gay Marriage Reaches Record-High

A Gallup survey finds that 60 percent of U.S. believes same-sex marriages should be legally recognized.

Becky Bryant (L) and her wife Wincie Gladish embrace on the steps of the Arkansas State Capital in Little Rock during a press conference by the Human Rights Campaign following Gov. Asa Hutchinson's comments on House Bill 1228, a bill passed which prohibits state and local governments from infringing on a person's religious beliefs without a 'compelling' interest, on April 1, 2015 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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America continues to change its mind on gay marriage.

A record 60 percent of U.S. adults surveyed now say that same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law, a new Gallup poll finds. Support for extending full marriage rights to gay couples has risen dramatically since 1996, the first year that Gallup began polling on the subject, when 68 percent of Americans said that they did not think same-sex marriages should be recognized.