“Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted each May, finds current public tolerance for gay rights at the high-water mark of attitudes recorded over the past three decades.” Today, 59 percent of Americans believe that “homosexual relations between consenting adults” should be legal, and 89 percent believe “gays should have equal rights in terms of job opportunities.”

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