A Gallup Poll released Monday showed that support for same-sex marriage is maintaining a position of Seventy-one percent of Americans who think it should be legal, matching the previous year’s percentage.
Gallup noted that public support for legally recognizing gay marriages has been consistently above 50% since the early 2010s.
The latest figures are from Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 1-24. When Gallup first polled about same-sex marriage in 1996, barely a quarter of the public (27%) supported legalizing such unions.
It would take another 15 years, until 2011, for support to reach the majority level. Then in 2015, just one month before the U.S.