A couple years ago I guessed 2012. I'm not ready to change it quite yet, but my prediction of when gay marriage will be legal could be off by a wee bit. But not by much.
A new study from Higher Education Research at UCLA notes that even college freshmen identifying themselves as politically "far right" support gay marriage rights at significantly higher percentages than do nationwide conservative Republicans.
Breaking it down by political ideology and comparing the new data on college freshmen to last years Pew general public poll results yields this chart:
Support for gay marriage has increased generally in the past decade. In 2000, 56 percent of entering college students backed it. Four years later, freshmen were 57 percent supportive at the time they enrolled, and by graduation, 69 percent of that entering class supported gay marriage, according to the UCLA research institute.
Inevitable. It's just a question of how soon.
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