Poll: Mixed views on LGBT rights - Why we fight

[WillParkinson]

Poll: Mixed views on LGBT rights
By 365gay Newscenter Staff
04.30.2009 9:30am EDT

(New York City) A new national public survey has found Americans are conflicted over the term “marriage” for gays but supportive of a number of LGBT issues.
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The survey of 2,041 registered voters nationwide was taken by Quinnipiac University’s polling institute, which said it was one of most comprehensive polls ever on attitudes toward a variety of LGBT questions.

Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

By 56-37 percent, voters said the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military should be repealed.

Among voters with family in the military, the margin was 50-43 percent for repeal. Almost two-thirds of Catholic respondents supported repeal, but white evangelical Christians supported the current ban, 53-40 percent.

Passage of ENDA

The Quinnipiac poll, however, found most Americans do not favor passage of federal legislation guaranteeing job and housing protections for members of the LGBT commnity.

By 50-44 percent, survey respondents rejected the argument that ending discrimination against gays and lesbians is as necessary today as ending discrimination against blacks was in the 1960s.

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[xchrom]

1. ...

'The Quinnipiac poll, however, found most Americans do not favor passage of federal legislation guaranteeing job and housing protections for members of the LGBT commnity.'

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Most Americans are bigots

We all know that, save for the bigots, who think they are saints. But they are just bigots.

[xchrom]

3. it's like a national past time. nt

[ThomCat]

4. In tough economic times, if anyone has to be homeless

they would rather it be us. Let the "normal" people get by and have good lives. We're expendable freaks. :grr:

This is only going to get worse.