Pew Survey Reveals How Trump Supporters And Biden Supporters Feel About Gay Marriage In 2024
Andrew Daniller, a Pew Research Center Research Associate, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss a new massive Pew survey showing how voters view gay marriage.
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00:00 We are speaking of course during Pride Month and Pew asked Americans about their opinions on gay marriage and other LGBTQ issues.
00:10 What exactly did you find in terms of how Americans view gay marriage right now in 2024?
00:16 Yeah, so this is another case where there is a pretty substantial partisan divide.
00:21 Among Biden supporters, we find that 57%, so a majority of Biden supporters, say that same-sex marriage being legal in the U.S. is a good thing for society.
00:32 Among Trump supporters, it's just 11% who say that this is a good thing for society.
00:36 Now, the way that we ask this question, there is some middle ground.
00:40 So everyone who said that this isn't a good thing didn't necessarily say that it's a bad thing.
00:45 Some of them said that it's neither bad nor good.
00:47 But with that said, there's a pretty substantial divide between Biden supporters who say that this is a good thing for society
00:54 and Trump supporters who say that this is a good thing for society.
00:57 Those numbers seem generally low to me.
01:01 And without having data from 2015 or 2014 before gay marriage passed in the U.S., I can't speak to the specific numbers.
01:10 But how have you seen attitudes change over the years?
01:13 Has support for gay marriage gone down in recent years?
01:17 So we don't have any evidence that support for gay marriage has gone down.
01:21 This is a new question to us, whether same-sex marriage being legal is good for society.
01:27 And that asks something a little bit different than whether you believe it should be a right or something along those lines.
01:33 So as you know, same-sex marriage became legal a few years ago based on a Supreme Court decision.
01:40 And that changed the way that we had to ask about same-sex marriage.
01:44 However, what we saw in the years leading up to that was increasing support over time.
01:48 And within the public opinion sort of industry, we talk about same-sex marriage as really one of those rare exemplar sort of cases
01:59 where public opinion did shift and it shifted rapidly.
02:03 And that was something you could see happening as it happened.
02:06 And then you also asked about the use of pronouns, which is something that we have seen more and more in recent years.
02:13 How do Americans feel about using they/them pronouns when referring to trans or non-binary individuals?
02:21 Yeah, so what we asked is whether in sort of your daily life,
02:25 if you feel comfortable when someone asks you to use they/them pronouns instead of he or she pronouns.
02:30 So we didn't refer specifically to transgender or non-binary people.
02:35 It was just about using those pronouns sort of in your daily, you know, your everyday life.
02:41 And what we found there is that there is a partisan gap there, that Biden supporters are much more comfortable or at least say that they're much more comfortable with this than Trump supporters are.
02:54 And here again, are those attitudes towards pronouns perhaps affecting how people view other LGBTQ issues like same-sex marriage?
03:04 Well, it's certainly possible. We have seen, of course,
03:08 political leaders on both sides reference the pronoun debate.
03:12 And so I have to think that that's playing into larger debates and larger issues when it comes to LGBT issues, when it comes to transgender issues specifically.
03:23 Now, we did in this survey ask people whether the gender that someone is can be different from the sex that they were assigned at birth.
03:32 And this, of course, is another case where we see a very large partisan divide where Republican voters and Democrat voters,
03:39 Democratic voters, at least those who say they're supporting the candidates currently, where they are far apart,
03:45 where there are many more Biden supporters who say that the sex you're assigned at birth doesn't necessarily make you a man or woman versus Trump supporters who say that.