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  1. Semi-joke here from the peanut gallery.

    Can we get a map of incest per capita? Would love to see if there is any correlation.

  2. LurkersUniteAgain on

    huh? i saw a map earlier that said over 50% of mississippi and arkansas supported same sex marriage, so how can over 50% oppose it too???

  3. Opposed to other people marrying the same sex, or themselves?
    What was the actual question asked?

  4. I just can’t with these people anymore – what the hell do you care who someone marries? It’s just so damn stupid. Is Karen really jealous that she can’t marry gay Chad? Is John really butthurt that lesbian Joanna won’t say “I do!”? I don’t want to marry a woman, but who the hell am I to tell some other woman that she can’t?

  5. South Dakota feels like such an outlier for their region. Any idea why? They’re culturally quite similar to North Dakota and nearby states.

  6. Friend_of_the_trees on

    A lot of people like to call Idaho and Utah the south of the Pacific coast, so I’m surprised to see their disapproval numbers so low. I’m not sure what the Mormon policy is on same sex marriage, but they seem pretty tolerant. 

    Also, interesting to see the Arizona numbers. Culturally it seems much more similar to California than Texas. 

  7. The fact there is even a possibility that same-sex marriage might be overturned in the SCOTUS is ridiculous. But, the problem is that take a state like… SC. 42% oppose it. Let’s say that means 58% support it. The thing is that if 60% of the state are Republicans, and let’s say that the vast majority of opponents to same-sex marriage are Republicans, then it is probably about 75% of Republicans that oppose it. Therefore, Republican politicians will support it.

    The joy of being ruled by a majority of the minority.

    Edit: SCOTUS comment is because Congress could pass a law formally recognizing same-sex marriage, which would protect it, somewhat from the SCOTUS. However, that would never happen since Republicans would never let it pass the Senate, even if Democrats ran the show.

  8. Wow. So many people are worried about what other people are doing in their bedrooms. Like fucking weirdos.

  9. Salarian_American on

    So apart from a couple of states, which just barely edge over 50%… the vast majority are not opposed to same-sex marriage.

    Does that matter? Nope.

  10. No-Lifeguard3759 on

    It sickens me that same sex marriage was once banned literally because the Bible says that a man shall not lie with another man. You’re really discriminating against people that aren’t bothering you because of a book? Get real.

  11. saurus-REXicon on

    “Religious Landscape Study by Pew research”

    Piqued my interest. So I researched the study, here is the [RLS](https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/)

    Lots of contextual info in the study
    I think it’s interesting it’s called the “Religious Landscape Study” in that includes data collected about political and sexual affiliation/or views on sexuality.

  12. It’s counterintuitive to title the map “opposition to” and then have darker values at the top of the axis

    Best practice is to match the title to the scale, so darker values should show greatest opposition

  13. This-Wall-1331 on

    Politicians will surely respect the popular will so gay people have nothing to fear, right? Right…?

  14. Budget_Llama_Shoes on

    In Mississippi sister relations are ok. Brother relations, not so much. It worked out fine for Uncle Daddy.

  15. As someone who’s not American, I’m starting to get good at picking out Mississippi on maps for all the wrong reasons.

  16. the vast majority of the country, even in red states, under 50%. It’s not that controversial as Fox News and their acolytes like to say that it is

  17. This hopefully shows you that gay marriage is a distraction, just like trans people, immigration and abortion can be used as a smokescreen.

    It turns out most people don’t care about who gets married etc. It’s just a useful distraction for the truly important stuff like tax ratios/equality and climate change.

    It’s so effective it’s all Democrats talk about now too.

    “Don’t focus on these tax bills we are passing, the only thing you need to hear is it’s a tax cut! You’ll have more money!…..”

    Meanwhile the tax cut the 1%, which in dollar terms dwarfs other’s benefit, allows them to compete for more resources… resources that would have been the 99%’s

    “Quick discuss um idk, trans people or something, the news cycle is leaving our desired topics of discussion”

  18. Stuff like this is why I get so mad when people talk to me like homophobia has been eradicated in America just because of Obergefell. I spent most of my life growing up in a 42 state and now I live in 18 and the difference is *noticable* as a man in a gay relationship