Poll: 50 Percent of Americans Cool With a Gay President

(March 30) -- Half of Americans say they're OK with a gay president in the White House. According to a new Vanity Fair/"60 Minutes" poll, 50 percent of Americans say they would support an openly gay president, while 44 percent would oppose one.

Researchers framed the question as related to the likely repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell," the policy that bars gays from serving openly in the military.

A recent Washington Post-CBS News survey found that 75 percent of Americans want the Pentagon's policy on homosexuality repealed and believe gay soldiers should be able to openly serve. And if the 967 respondents from the Vanity Fair/"60 Minutes" telephone survey were honest with pollsters, then Americans don't seem to have a problem with the idea of a gay commander in chief either.

According to the poll, 55 percent are OK with an openly gay Supreme Court justice too. Still more -- 62 percent -- would support a gay Super Bowl quarterback.

Other tidbits from the poll: 29 percent of Americans agree the tea party movement is the "beginning of a much-needed revolution," while more than a third say celebrities who claim to have a sex addiction are jerks.

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