Nearly Half Of New Jersey’s Catholics Support Marriage Equality.
A just-released Rutgers poll finds forty-eight percent of New Jersey’s Catholics are in favor of same-sex marriage, despite last month’s organized attacks by the Catholic Church. An additional twelve percent are undecided and forty percent remain opposed.
MyCentralJersey reports,
“As with several social issues, many Catholics support a more liberal public policy than does the Church itself,” said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers University. “Given that Catholics comprise the largest religious group in the state, this makes a difference in overall support for gay marriage in New Jersey, especially since a majority of Protestants — many of whom are Evangelicals — oppose the bill.”