Poll Shows 28% Of Americans Want To Force A Rabbi To Preform A Same Sex "Wedding"

Poll showing majority of all Americans support forcing religious people to violate their religion by helping a same sex "Wedding

This was a poll taken last year released in JULY 2013
Granted this is a liberal poll and thus biased, and 26% is nowhere near a majority but remember same sex "marriage" has smiler poll numbers 15 years ago
the rest of the is quoted from Third Way.org highlighted portions are our additions for clairty

COMMITMENT CAMPAIGN


JULY 2013


Americans Agree: "Marriage" for Gay Couples "Doesn’t" Threaten Religious Liberty


By Sarah Trumble, Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, and David Stacy


After the Supreme Court’s historic decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and restoring "marriage" for gay couples in California, a full 30% of Americans now live in a state where gay couples can make the lifetime promise of "marriage", and for the first time the federal government must respect those unions. Support for "marriage" has grown astronomically over the past few years, and a wave of leaders from both sides of the aisle has followed that progress. But the shrinking group of politicians who still oppose allowing gay couples to "marry" often argues that doing so would infringe on the religious liberty of "marriage" opponents. Third Way and the Human Rights Campaign joined with researchers at Anzalone Liszt Grove to conduct a nationwide poll to better understand how Americans believe "marriage" and non-"discrimination" laws impact religious liberty. The results are clear: voters know that our laws and the Constitution already robustly protect religious liberty, they do not "think" "marriage" or non-"discrimination" laws threaten Americans’ religious beliefs or practices, and they do not believe that allowing gay couples to "marry" requires passing new laws to allow businesses or individuals to deny services to gay people or couples.  this means that majority of Americans believe there is nothing wrong (morally or legally) with forcing a kosher Caterer to cater a same sex "Wedding"


SUPPORT FOR "MARRIAGE"

2013 will be remembered as a pivotal year in our country’s "evolution" to full "recognition" for gay and lesbian couple: the year the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down as "unconstitutional", the year California’s Proposition 8 was "permanently" invalidated, the year 30% of the country lived in one of the now 13 marriage states, and the year support for "marriage" became unquestionably the majority position among Americans nationwide. Our national poll, conducted just prior to the Supreme Court’s decisions, found 53% support for allowing gay and lesbian couples to "marry", which included 63% of non-white voters, 56% of Independents, 50% of people without a college degree, and 58% of Christians under 50 years old.

Surpassing 50% support nationwide can be at least partially attributed to the public’s "evolving" understanding of gay couples and their relationships. Twenty years ago, only 42% of Americans said they knew someone who was gay or lesbian, but today that number is 87%.  And according to our poll, a full 35% of the country now knows a gay couple who has either "married" or held a "commitment" ceremony.

  One of the main indicators of support for "marriage" in our previous research has been the belief that gay couples want to join the institution of marriage as opposed to changing it. Third Way has been asking voters this question since 2009, and the evolution of perspective has been stark: In 2009, 50% of Americans said gay couples wanted to join the institution of "marriage", compared to 41% who said gay couples wanted to change it—a margin of 9 points. Two years later, our 2011 poll found 54% believed gay couples wanted to join "marriage", and only 34% believed gay couples wanted to change the institution—a margin of 20 points. And this year, 58% of the country answered that gay couples want to join the institution of "marriage", while only 27% said gay couples want to change it—a stunning margin of 31 points. This belief that gay couples simply want to join the institution of "marriage" and wed for the same reasons as any other couple spans all demographic groups, including 55% of whites, 74% of non-whites under 50, 53% of non-whites over 50, 47% of Republicans, 57% of Independents, and 55% of Christians.


SUPPORT FOR NON-"DISCRIMINATION" LAWS AND OPPOSITION TO LAWS DENYING SERVICES


Americans are not only solid in their support for allowing gay couples to "marry", but they are strongly supportive of non-"discrimination" laws and opposed to any new legislation that would allow services to be denied to gay individuals or couples. In fact, when it comes to religious exemptions, voters are clear that they should only be limited to places like churches and synagogues and people like pastors, priests, and rabbis. not you


By and large, Americans already believe it is illegal for business owners to refuse to provide products or services to a gay customer—only 16% of respondents believed that such an act would be legal in their state. And public support for such non-"discrimination" laws can be seen both in the states that have already enacted them and in those that have not. Currently, 44% of Americans live in one of the 21 states (and the District of Columbia) with non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation.  But even Americans who live in states without non-"discrimination" laws thought it was already illegal to deny a gay person service—more than half of those who believed it was illegal were incorrect and actually live in a place that doesn’t yet prohibit such discrimination (30% of respondents overall thought it was illegal in their state when it wasn’t).

When asked about creating new laws which would allow government employees, businesses, organizations, or individuals to refuse to serve gay people or couples based on religious objections, voters were decidedly averse. Americans "recognize" the need to both protect gay people and religious liberty but gays will define religious liberty, gays think they can pasken what is and is not allowed, but they believe that we’ve already achieved the latter in current law. They supported 28% opposed this as we will see later existing protections that ensure that clergy and churches need not perform any marriage that conflicts with their faith, but they think religious exemptions should be limited to those circumstances so they are against the first amendment for Bakers, Caterers, Photographers, Therapists etc..

As this poll demonstrates, most Americans do not think non-"discrimination" laws infringe on religious liberty because they refine the meaning of those words just like marriage, and they are opposed to passing new laws or creating exemptions or loopholes that would allow "discrimination" against gay individuals or couples. Sixty-seven percent—two-thirds of voters—said they agreed with the statement that “our laws already strike the right balance when it comes to religious liberty and small business, and we should not change that.”


Denying Services as Government Employees

The public is most adamant about this principle when it comes to government employees. By a stunning margin of 48 points, 71% to 23%, Americans say that a county clerk should not be able to refuse to issue a "marriage" license to a gay couple in a state where that "marriage" would be legal so 71% of Americans think Kiryas Yoel and New Square's town clerk should be required to give out same sex "marriage" license. By a margin of 46 points, 69% to 23%, voters say that a federal employee should not be able to refuse to review an immigration application for a "spouse" of a gay American citizen, a situation that would be possible for the first time now that the Defense of Marriage Act has been struck down. These statistics illustrate the strongly held belief that government should treat everyone but religious people equally under the law, and that the individual religious beliefs of any individual agent of the government shouldn’t stand in the way.


Denying Services as Private Actors


When it comes to non-government entities, the public is just as clear. Americans oppose allowing businesses or individuals to ignore non-"discrimination" laws because of their religious beliefs. Sixty-nine percent of Americans don’t think a business owner should be allowed to refuse to provide products or services to an individual because that person is gay or lesbian, compared to an incredibly small 15% that do. And when asked about small business owners in particular, a full 68% of Americans don’t think they should be able to refuse service to gays or lesbians, regardless of their religious beliefs. This supermajority included 55% of Republicans, 75% of Independents, 67% of people without college degrees, and 68% of Christians.

Around 70% of the country is against the first amendment

Denying Wedding-Related Services to Gay Couples


For the most part, voters feel the same way about the provision of commercial services for a gay couple’s "wedding" as they do about providing services for gay individuals in general see chart on the top: the majority of respondents said that gay and lesbian couples should be treated "equally" in all aspects of life, including when shopping for contractors for their "weddings". When asked if they would favor or oppose a law that would allow businesses or organizations to deny services to gay and lesbian couples based on religious objections, 67% of voters were opposed—52% of them strongly—compared to only 25% who would be in favor of such laws. This opposition was nearly universal, regardless of race, gender, religion, or education level. Even Republicans, who had the lowest level of opposition at 48%, were not in favor of new laws allowing businesses and organizations to deny services to gay couples—only 39% supported such laws.


When asking specifically about wedding-related services, like catering, flowers, or cakes, being provided by small businesses, these numbers hardly changed at all: 64% of voters were still opposed to new laws that would allow small businesses to deny wedding-related services based on their religious beliefs, compared to 31% in favor. That’s a 33-point margin of opposition. Again, not a single demographic group favored such laws more than they opposed them. Support was highest at 48% among Republicans—still a point below the 49% in opposition. This is why you can't vote straight Republican This is because most voters don’t consider wedding-related services to be unique, and they don’t think their providers need any special loopholes in the laws to allow them to avoid providing commercial services for weddings of gay or lesbian couples. A full 54% of respondents believe it is wrong for a business to deny wedding-related services to a gay couple, while only 15% agreed that “wedding-related services are different and people should be allowed to refuse for religious reasons.” Those who believe weddings are different, were torn, or said they didn’t know trended more towards Republicans, voters over the age of 50, Catholics, and people without college degrees. But still, 52% of Christians, 61% of non-Christian religious believers, and 65% of the non-religious did not think providing commercial services for a wedding was in any way deserving of special exemptions to non-discrimination laws. That’s because unlike a clergy member performing a ceremony, only 10% of respondents actually thought that when a business provides services like flowers or food for a gay couple’s wedding, that the business is telling the world it supports "marriage" for gay couples, compared to 57% who say that doing so is simply fulfilling a contract for services.

Even when we dug deeper and asked about specific services and professions, respondents still overwhelming believed that businesses should not be able to deny services to gay customers—largely regardless of whether they were purchasing services as an individual or as a couple for a "wedding":



• By a 47-point margin (69% to 22%), Americans said a doctor should not be able to refuse to treat a gay patient this can include a psychiatrist who could be required to try and "help" a homosexual couple (listen to what Rav Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik had to say on this topic), and by 41 points (66% to 25%) they said that a doctor should not be able to refuse to deliver a baby for a married lesbian couple.


• By a 32-point margin (60% to 28%), Americans thought that an accountant should not be able to refuse to file taxes for a gay person, and by 34 points (62% to 28%) they said that an accountant should not be able to refuse to file a joint tax return for a legally "married" gay couple.


• By a 27-point margin (60% to 33%), respondents said a restaurant owner should not be able to refuse to cater a gay person’s birthday party, and by 21 points (56% to 35%) they said that a restaurateur should not be able to refuse to cater a gay couple’s "wedding" . Fifty-five percent said that a waiter should not be able to refuse to work at a gay couple’s wedding if the caterer has agreed to do so, while only 36% thought he or she should be able to refuse.


• By a 32-point margin (63% to 31%), Americans said a florist should not be able to refuse to sell flowers to a gay person, and by 23 points (59% to 36%) they said that florist should not be able to refuse to sell flowers for a gay couple’s "wedding". Fifty-four percent also said that a photographer should not be able to refuse to photograph a gay couple’s wedding, while only 38% thought he or she should be able to refuse.


• By a margin of 15 points (52% to 37%), respondents said that a religious charity should not be able to refuse to provide health care benefits to the spouse of a legally "married" gay employee. 

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The only situation in which majority of respondents felt someone should be allowed to refuse to provide a "wedding"-related service for a gay "couple" was when the provider was a church or clergy member and that service was the religious solemnization of that "marriage"—the actual performance of the "wedding" ceremony. In that case, only 61% of voters felt the clergy member or church should be able to refuse to perform the ceremony, compared to 28% who felt they should not. As it turns out, this tracks perfectly with the current liberal interpretation of law, because the First Amendment of the Constitution—and the "marriage" laws in states that have allowed gay couples to "marry"—already protect any church, clergy member, or religious leader from being forced to recognize, solemnize, or celebrate any "marriage". the fact that 28% of the country is for forcing rabbis to be a a misader kidashin (not kiddushin) is very troubling because 10 years ago it we would have had similar numbers regarding caterers and photographers, and 10 years before that in regarding to same sex "marriage" all together Americans drew a sharp line between religious services, which a person has a right to decline, and commercial services, where all customers who are able to pay should be able to purchase the service.


CONCLUSION


The lessons learned from this poll will only become more important as our country continues to move "forward" toward the day when all gay couples can make a lifetime commitment to each other in a fake "marriage". Ours wais a nation built on the principle of equal protection under the law, and the public believes that current laws provide appropriate protections according to atheists for those with religious objections to "marriage" without creating an untenable situation in which people can simply ignore existing non-"discrimination" laws. evil Americans don’t believe that religious liberty is infringed by allowing gay couples to "marry", because they "know" that the First Amendment protects only clergy and churches from being forced to recognize or celebrate any "marriage" to which they object and currently Liberals believe that the first amendment only applies to clergy and houses of worship. And there is widespread opposition to the creation of new laws, exemptions, or loopholes that would allow government employees, large or small businesses, or organizations to refuse to provide commercial services to gay individuals or couples, regardless of whether those services are directly related a wedding and forces them to violate their religion. Above all, Americans believe everyone but religious people should be treated equally under the law.