FORT LAUDERDALE — A recent poll found that a vast majority of Floridians support same-sex marriage.
“Gay marriage becoming legal in Florida doesn’t seem to be doing anyone much harm,” says Public Policy Polling, a widely respected research firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Eighty-one percent of voters in the state say it’s either had a positive impact on their lives or no impact at all, with just 20 percent claiming that it’s affected them negatively.”
Even among Republican voters, whose party has long argued against marriage equality, more than seven in 10 said marriage equality had affected them positively or not at all.
The poll of registered voters was conducted between March 19 and 22, a little more than two months after federal courts ruled the state’s 2008 ban unconstitutional.
Same-sex became legal in Florida on Jan. 6.
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing cases from several states in April and then make a national ruling on the issue by July.
