Most of Freshmen Support Marriage Equality {Study Says}
Talk about coming of age in a world that is finding homophobia increasingly difficult to explain.
Mining data from more than 200,000 first-year college students around the country, researchers at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institutereport that a whopping 71.3% of freshmen support same-sex marriage, a 6.4 percentage-point increase compared to 2009 figures.
"Among students entering college, we're seeing a more unified support for same-sex marriage that reaches across political party lines," John H. Pryor, lead author of the report and director of CIRP, said in a statement. "Given the influence of young voters in the last presidential election, candidates may want to pay careful attention to the student perspective on these and other civil rights issues."
And in similar ways, college students continue to lean left more and more when faced with other “liberal” political and social issues like abortion and affirmative action. In the same study, 60.7 percent say they support full reproductive rights while 42.1 percent say they support preferential treatment in college admissions (up from 37.4 percent in 2009).
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BY: CHRISTOPHER DONALDSON
gay.net
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