Generational attitudes shifting on marriage

Adam Goodheart writes in the New York Times today about shifting attitudes toward marriages between people of the same sex. His article points off to a Pew Center on People and the Press survey which notes that while Americans overall are against the idea of such marriages by a two to one margin, Americans in the 18-30 demographic (what Goodheart calls the “Will and Grace” generation) are just evenly divided. This is something I’ve believed from my own experience, anecdotally, but it’s interesting to find it documented in this way. He also reminds us that “whenever a sweeping social change has occurred, it has tended to occur within the span of a single generation.”