More New Yorkers Support Gay Marriage Than Ever: Poll

As temperatures increase, more and more New Yorkers are warming to the idea of gay marriage.

In January, a Quinnipiac University poll showed 56 percent of New Yorkers favored marriage equality. At the time, it was the highest percentage ever recorded by Quinnipiac.

This Month, a new Siena College poll shows 58 percent of New Yorkers are all for gay people being allowed to tie the knot.

Democrats were widely in favor, with 65 percent in support. Perhaps more surprisingly, 45 percent of Republicans also backed the idea.

With less than three months left in the legislative session, Siena asked respondents to identify which issue was most important for lawmakers to address. Thirteen percent said same sex marriage, while 37 percent wanted a cap on property taxes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval rating remained sky-high, with 73 percent of New Yorkers having a favorable opinion of him.

Comments

[James v Morris]

11:37 PM on 04/21/2011

I predict that marriage equality will be law in NY State within less than a year.

[Davi Car]

05:22 AM on 04/15/2011

Must be discouraging for the 'gay community' that another group to which the idea of civil rights is also important, African-Americans, is notoriously unsupportive of the claim that gay marriage is in fact a civil right.

[Angel1999]

05:05 PM on 04/17/2011

They'll come around.

[anthonybrown]

07:25 AM on 04/20/2011

What's next? Saying that the "right to live" and the "right to not have large people with large tools rip you apart piece-by-piece" are civil rights?

Probably not.

[zest]

11:37 AM on 04/13/2011

Come on, come through New York!

[Olethea]

09:54 PM on 04/12/2011

It's nice that so many support marriage equality, but civil rights have never required a majority vote. Just ask Rosa Parks and MLK.

[truth be told again]

01:54 PM on 04/25/2011

I wish I could agree with you that "civil rights have never required a majority vote", because voting on other people's civil and human rights is an obscenity unworthy of the promise of America.

However, such votes take place all the time - from Prop H8, to repealing DADT and the DOMA, Sometimes the population at large gets to vote on it, other times it's legisltors or court justices.

It is a sad fact of American life that "we the people" can be so very, very wrong so very, very often. Heck, even after Loving v. Virginia, (passed in 1967) it still took 33 years for Alabama to change their laws, and even then fully 40% were still against inter-racial marriage!

So much for LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL.

[SteveHansen]

04:11 PM on 04/12/2011

We can reasonably expect the hate groups, including FRC and AFA, to throw a tantrum. But I think the tide has turned. It is not just that the majority agree that gay couples should have the same marriage rights as everyone else. It is also that the majority are beginning to view FRC and AFA and the other hate groups, as hate groups.

The KKK was very popular, until it was not.

[Bill J4321]

11:32 AM on 04/12/2011

Now that 'the majority' supports it, can 'the majority' also acknowledge that fellow citizens are not, nor have they ever been authorized to vote and decide the level of citizenship of their fellow Americans?

[Joseph Mustich]

05:07 AM on 04/12/2011

And why not. It's the right thing to do morally and economically.
Cheers, Joe Mustich, CT Justice of the Peace, USA.

The marriage cops need to retire and take their hocus pocus with them...and just play bingo..

Marriage is firstly civil and contractual in America. Period.

[Stan James]

10:12 PM on 04/11/2011

Expect all the hate groups to have a new fit. The FRC, founded by secretly gay George Reker, who took pretty boy Lucien (Jo-Vanni Roman) a gay college age prostitute with him to Europe to give him massages. The rest of the FRC is from the deep south, which explains their hate.

And the AFA - from Mississippi. And NOM, headed by Maggie Gallager of two illegitimate children.

Some crazy glue in a couple places - especially with maggie would help America in many ways.

[Stan James]

10:08 PM on 04/11/2011

This si what you get out of some parts of Christianity - our own taliban. this creep evangelical should be given to the taliban as a peace offering. And then we could bring the troops home to solve the problems of her and her kind.

Dispatch this piece of unspeakable anal droppings to Afghanistan. be sure to deliver a video cam so we can enjoy her discovering for herself what she advocates for others.

[Absolute]

10:01 PM on 04/11/2011

That's great, maybe one day we'll stop legalizing bigotry.

[Stan James]

10:17 PM on 04/11/2011

America needs hate speech laws. Germany has them now, too late. Advocate for Nazi-ism and you can get 5 years in the slammer.

And why are we fighting a war half a world away due to 9/11, while not fighting a war here at home over the several thousand gay kids EVERY SINGLE YEAR who are driven to suicide.

[Mike Cullinan]

12:09 PM on 04/12/2011

Uh . . . Constitution? Sorry, you don't get to lock up people for saying things you find offensive.

[Olethea]

09:56 PM on 04/12/2011

Free speech includes hate speech, but not hate crimes.

I don't want thought police, but I do want my fellow Americans to have marriage equality.

[pbnyc59]

06:08 PM on 04/11/2011

As more people come out of the closet, in the public eye and private, people see we are not that different and we all deserve the same rights. It's equal rights, not special rights.

[Stan James]

10:14 PM on 04/11/2011

gay people are great people. I'm so disappointed that in my many years as a str8 advocate for gay people being treated equally, I've only had one offer of a date, and he was drunk.

KInd of like some people with reversed alimentary canals who said that I must be gay. My answer -" I wish I was." Some of them actually all but needed a diaper.

[Stan James]

10:15 PM on 04/11/2011

And btw that was what ending DADT - an almost done deal - was all about. Hard to hate someone you know and respect, and in the mil might well save your life, even at the cost of his/her own.