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DOMA: Conservatives Evenly Split On Repeal (Exclusive!) (TheNewCivilRightsMovement)

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Conservatives are evenly split in their support for DOMA, the 1996 law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to choose to do the same. Based upon a poll released yesterday by HRC, the Human Rights Campaign, 45% of conservatives polled indicated support for DOMA, and 44% indicated they did not support the law, well within the margin of error.


These numbers were not published publicly in the DOMA poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, so to get them I emailed Michael Cole-Schwartz, HRC’s Press Secretary, who tells me that in addition to the 45-44 split for conservatives, only 21% of liberals favor DOMA, while 70% of liberals are opposed, and even moderates are heavily against support of DOMA: 27% of moderates support DOMA, and 56% oppose it.

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Complete article at The New Civil Rights Movement : http://bit.ly/hZqNd5