A majority of Americans now agree that same-sex relationships are morally acceptable and an even larger number feel they should be legal, according to a Gallup Poll taken earlier this month.
The poll found 54 percent of those questioned found gay and lesbian relationships morally acceptable.
Do you think gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should or should not be legal? Gallup asked.? Sixty-three percent of those polled said they should be legal, just 31 percent said illegal.
As with President Obamas feelings, public opinion is still evolving.? But the evolution makes President Obamas decision to publicly support gay marriage much less controversial than it would have been even four years ago, Gallup concluded.
The morally acceptable figure stood at 42 percent in 2004, when Republican strategist Karl Rove helped measures defining marriage as between a man and a woman on ballots in 11 states.? The measures bolstered President Bush.? By 2008, however, the acceptable figure had climbed to 48 percent.
Significant pockets of resistance remain namely Republicans, those 55 and older, Protestants, residents of the South and in some respects men but the majority of other groups have grown comfortable with gay rights, Gallup reported.
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