Poll: Slim Majority Supports Gay Marriage

The passage about Sodom and Gomorrah ends in saying that Lot was called a "just man" because he offered his DAUGHTERS to the villagers to RAPE, instead of letting them attack the strangers to whom he was giving shelter. How many so-called bible quoters out there have piously offered their daughters to crazed villagers to RAPE? Legislation like the Defense of Marriage Act are nothing but expressions of human TERRITORIALISM. Would these hypocrites modify DOMA to take away the right to get married from heteros who are CONVICTED (not simply ACCUSED) of WIFE-BEATING, MURDERING THEIR SPOUSES, CHILD ABUSE or INCEST? No, because then too many of these so-called Godly people would be forever SINGLE. O.J. wants to get married again? OK by them! But Sarah and Mary, who have loved each other and lived together for 5 years apply for a MARRIAGE LICENSE? No way! That would violate the SANCTITY of MARRIAGE. Let's all keep marking our territories, until we all have 6 feet of dirt on our faces anyway. Hypocrites.

why would anyone believe poll by the left wing huffington post? Aol screwed up by having them as a news source. May as well get your news from the DNC

I have never understood how defining marriage as a man and woman protects marriage. Especially the people quoting the bible to prove their point. They say it is because only a man and woman can have a child. Okay if that is your argument then old people should not be allowed to marry, neither should infertile couples. They can't have children.

Also no gay couples are demanding that the government pass a law that says churches must marry gay couples. Churches are free to do as they wish. I married a man (i am a woman) and I didn't get married in church. I got married by a judge, so I didn't have a religious ceremony.

The thing that bothers me the most is those spouting off about the sanctity of marriage are usually serial marriers. They have been married and divorced so many times you lose count. How can they sit there and say marriage is holy when they have cheated and divorced?

A wedding is an event where two people who love each other stand before their friends and family and community and say "I love this person. I want to spend my life with this person." It is not a threat to anyone. How dare we as a community a society say to someone that you can only look for love in this narrow way. You can only find happiness with this particular group of people. That if you find it else where you are less than others. You deserve less than others. In this country you are free, free to love, free to believe what you want. I am tired of people making judgments for me based on their religious beliefs. How is that any different than any of those hard core muslim countries? Countries that base their laws on their religion. The same people fighting against gay marriage are the same ones decrying countries that have Shari law, but they are trying to do the same here.

You are free to live your life based on YOUR beliefs. But do not try to make me live by them also. I don't believe the same things as you. You don't believe in gay marriage then don't marry someone of the same sex. You don't believe in abortion then don't have one. But do not tell me I can't and don't make them illegal.

The way the question was asked does not address the real issue at hand - which is whether or not domestic partnerships or civil unions that differ from the present opposite sex relationships known as "marriage" should be given the same legal recognition, benefits, and privileges as "marriage." This poll is misleading.
I, for one, do not favor recognizing alternative domestic arrangements as "marriage"; but, I do not have an issue of having a form of registered civil union that provides similar legal standing.

The question was ask in a way to get the results it got. Marriage should be kept for a man and a woman as they have rights also, a civil union should be put in place for gays want to live together with a contract. It not alway about the rights of one side of the arguement as both sides have rights. The civil union would make give same sex all the benifits as a marriage. Each side would would have there rights by just meeting in the middle. Polls are becoming a joke as they are ask in a way to get a desired answer not in a way to find out what people really believe.

Where is this country going ,this would never even come up in the 50's or 60's

It's a matter of money. So-called straight marriage has insurance flexibility and tax benefits, the latter of which are paid, in part, by gay Americans in the form of income tax, and those gay Americans can't reap the same benefits. That's taxation without representation.
If a heterosexual couple can rush their marriage because the male is going off to Iraq, so that if he comes back in a body bag she will get a check and continuing benefits, essentially using marriage as a life insurance policy whose premiums are paid for, in part, by gay Americans, then gay Americans should be allowed to do the same.

Did you take that poll in california??

I have to think they did not poll in the 30 or states that have defined marrage as between a man and a woman, in thier state constiution.

It will be law of the land eventually. Not really a matter of needing a majority of people to approve. Do you think MS would have passed civil rights for black folks unless the Federal Gov. had not made them? This has nothing what so ever to do with Christianity in any way. This is a civil law issue and it is just a matter of time and even most religious leader know this.