Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue continues to be divisive. 51% of Americans continue to oppose legalizing gay marriage, down from 63% 2 years ago.

(Pew Research Center 3/22/06)