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Jeff Jones and Jenny Marlar join the podcast to discuss Gallup's historical trends on LGBTQ+ issues and the new, advanced ways it measures issues facing the community today.

While Pope Francis' comments supporting same sex civil unions were a drastic shift in Catholic church guidance, U.S. Catholics have supported gay marriage for about a decade.

U.S. adults increasingly believe the American public supports same-sex marriage, with 48% saying so -- a higher percentage than Gallup found in three polls over the prior decade.

Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people. Just 4% approved when Gallup first asked the question in 1958.

Two in three Americans (67%) say marriages between same-sex couples should be legally recognized, matching the previous high Gallup measured in 2018.

Several factors help explain why Americans are four times as likely to see polygamy as morally acceptable now compared with 14 years ago.

Americans have negative views of the state of moral values in the nation, but at the same time have become more accepting of a variety of moral behaviors.

Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable of 19 issues measured, and extramarital affairs and cloning humans the most morally wrong.

Declining support for the death penalty since the early 2000s is largely a result of lower support among Generation Z and millennials.

Americans' personal satisfaction remains significantly higher than satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S.