NEWS RELEASE: 81% of Floridians are just fine with same-sex marriage
81% of Floridians are just fine with same-sex marriage
New poll comes two months after nuptials began statewide
March 26, 2015
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A new poll shows that a vast majority of Floridians are content that same-sex couples can now marry in their state.
“Gay marriage becoming legal in Florida doesn't seem to be doing anyone much harm,” says Public Policy Polling, a widely respected research firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Eighty-one percent of voters in the state say it's either had a positive impact on their lives or no impact at all, with just 20% claiming that it's affected them negatively.”
Even among Republican voters, whose party has long argued against marriage equality, more than seven in 10 said marriage equality had affected them positively or not at all.
“Florida has embraced the freedom to marry. The hollow rhetoric of prejudice continues to falls away as people across the state celebrate the weddings of their friends and family,” said Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida, one of several groups that helped overturn Florida’s ban. “Thousands of couples have already taken advantage of this new freedom in Florida, and our communities are better and stronger because of it.”
The poll of registered voters was conducted between March 19 and 22, a little more than two months after a federal appeals court decided not to intervene in lower court rulings that had invalidated Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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