Gay Marriage Poll Shows Support Is High In Developed Nations

A new gay marriage poll released this week from Ipsos on behalf of Reuters shows a majority support for marriage equality in developed nations.

The poll finds most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt children.

Of the 12,484 adults questioned in the survey, 52 percent of people favour full marriage equality for gays and 21 percent support legal recognition but not marriage.

Sweden, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Canada and France – all countries where same-sex marriage is legal – showed majority support for full equality for same sex couples, as did most Germans, Britons and Australians.

In Argentina, which also recognises gay marriage, only 48 percent of people favoured marriage equality for gay couples. The numbers were similar in the United States, where legal recognition of gay couples varies by state, with 42 percent supporting marriage for gays and 23 percent favoring legal recognition.

“What we see is that in every one of the 16 countries we surveyed, there is a majority in favour of allowing same sex couples to have some sort of legal recognition,” observed Nicolas Boson, a senior vice president at Ipsos. “In nine out of 16 countries we see an outright majority in favour of full marriage equality.”

Opposition to legal recognition or marriage of gays was highest in Hungary, South Korea, Poland and Japan, where 37 percent of people said they were unsure about how they felt.

Social media and religion also had an impact on attitudes about gay marriage. People who are active on social media were more likely to support same-sex couples than those who were not online as much, according to the gay marriage poll.

Source: Reuters

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