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Republicans and Democrats agree that the economy, terrorism, jobs and healthcare are key election issues. However, they differ on the importance of climate change, the scope of government, income distribution and other issues.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered probate judges in that state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, defying a U.S. District Court ruling that had overturned Alabama's ban on such marriages.

A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana for the first time in Gallup's trend dating back to 1969. Republicans and older Americans still oppose legalization, but most young adults, Democrats, and independents favor it.

LGBT Americans view Hillary Clinton more favorably than her rival Donald Trump. Unlike the general population, differences in candidate favorability by race and ethnicity are not present among LGBT adults.

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Healthcare, national security, guns and education are the most influential issues in the 2020 election. How important they are to voters, though, depends on which party those voters belong to.

Among the 50 U.S. states, Vermont has the highest proportion of adults identifying as LGBT at 5.3%. The largest increases in LGBT identification are in the Pacific-region states.

More than four in 10 Americans (43%) now say pornography is morally acceptable, a seven-percentage-point increase from last year.

In 2016, 4.1% of American adults identified as LGBT, up from 3.5% in 2012. An estimated 10 million adults identify as LGBT in the U.S. Millennials and women largely drove the increases in LGBT identification.

Americans are about evenly divided on both the need for new civil rights laws to protect LGBT people and on restroom policies for transgender individuals.