Most college freshmen OK on gay marriages: Sixty percent support right to marry
More than 60 percent of incoming freshmen in U.S. colleges and universities believe that same-sex couples should have the right to marry—a 3.3 percent rise from the previous year’s class.
The annual study, this year based on 271,000 written questionnaires completed last fall at 393 schools nationwide, also showed that while more than 43 percent called themselves “middle-of-the-road,” that was the lowest percentage since the research program at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute was begun in 1970.