59% Of Americans Support Marriage Equality
Nearly six in ten Americans support the freedom to marry according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday.
59 percent of respondents interviewed the week of March 1 said that they believe same-sex marriage should be legal, a record number.
Just 33% of those polled oppose marriage equality.
That's almost a full reversal from just a decade ago, when only 30% of Americans supported marriage equality and a whopping 62% opposed it.
"It took about 25 years for interracial marriage to get from 30% support to 60%—It took same-sex marriage ten years," commented Democratic pollster Fred Yang."
Increasingly, Republicans have come around on the issue: 40% of respondents who identify as GOP primary voters support the freedom to marry.
This week more than 300 Republicans—including Sen. Mark Kirk, billionaire David Koch, and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman—filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of several marriage equality cases before the court.