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Tuesday July 27, 2010


Americans More Likely than Canadians and Britons to Support True Marriage

By James Tillman

July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A survey conducted by VisionCritical has found that 32% of Americans think that same-sex relationships should not receive any legal recognition, whereas only 13% of Canadians and 15% of Britons think the same.

Americans also scored more conservative than Canadians and Britons on a number of other key indicators.

Sixty-one percent of Canadians polled said they want same-sex “marriage” to remain legal, whereas 41% of Britons and only 36% of Americans support legalizing it in their own countries.

Fully 55% of U.S. citizens would like to see the Supreme Court declare marriage as between a man and a woman. Thirty-seven perecent said they would want the court to declare it to be a union between two people; 8% said they were not sure.

A majority of both Canadians and Britons said that being homosexual is something people are born with, while only 37% of Americans said so.

On the other hand, opinions appear to be shifting in favor of the homosexualist cause.

While 65% of Americans born before 1946 would vote to define marriage as between a man and a woman in a referendum, only 45% of those born between 1980 and 1995 would do the same.

Sixty-nine percent of Britons born before 1946 would support true marriage in a referendum, while only 31% of those born between 1980 and 1995 would do the same.

The survey used representative national samples of 1,003 Canadian adults, 1,002 American adults, and 1,980 British adults. The margin of error is +/- 3.1% in Canada and the United States and +/- 2.2% in Great Britain.