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Minnesotans’ views on gay marriage shifting

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Smart Politics blog at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute crunched the numbers on support for same-sex marriage in the Gopher State using public opinion polling from the last 10 years.

Among the results: Minnesotans do not support gay marriage but they do not support a constitutional amendment banning it. They think homosexuality is a sin by wide margins but they also think gays and lesbians are born that way by a margin of 10 percent.

Level of support for gay marriage have been increasing and a plurality support civil unions or domestic partnerships granting full marriage rights to gays and lesbians so long as it isn’t called marriage.

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Andy Birkey has written for a number of Minnesota and national publications. He founded Eleventh Avenue South which ran from 2002-2011, wrote for the Minnesota Independent from 2006-2011, the American Independent from 2010-2013. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, The Star Tribune, The Huffington Post, Salon, Cagle News Service, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TheUptake, Vita.mn and much more. His writing on LGBT issues, the religious right and social justice has won awards including Best Beat Reporting by the Online News Association, Best Series by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and an honorable mention by the Sex-Positive Journalism awards.