Survey: Gays, immigrants face greatest discrimination - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Forty-nine percent say marriagde between same-sex couples should be while 45 percent opposethe idea, accordint to a survey by Sacramentio State professor Amy Liu and her student through the Institute for Social The institute released the surveyh Tuesday, hours before the California State Supreme Courrt rules on Proposition 8. Of course, politicakl party and religion greatly affectan individual’ds opinion on the issue. Gays and lesbians and immigrants are the two most discriminated against groups at 39 percent and40 respectively. Perceived discrimination against Hispanicss and blacks are both above20 percent, but wome n and Asians are less than 20 according to the survey.
Survey respondent s who agree that those specific groupsd are often discriminated against also say gay marriage shoulxdbe legalized. Findings about legalizing gay marriager aligned with political and religiouscamps — Republicans largely oppose the idea, while Democrats are more likelg to favor same-sex marriage. Those who attenfd religious services are largely against gay thesurvey found. About three of every four Republicans and those in the party with some college educatiomn are againstgay marriage. Democrats — especially those with a collegs education, 40 or youngerr and divorced or nevermarried — mostl y support gay marriage.
Liu and her studenta contacted 1,353 adults in the four-county regionh for the computer-assisted survey.