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While social liberals and social conservatives differ in their views of most moral issues, abortion and gay/lesbian relations are the most divisive.

According to Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport, 55% of Americans support same-sex marriage, the highest on record, reflecting Americans' changing perspective on gay marriage.

A majority of Americans (53%) are satisfied with acceptance of gay people in the U.S., a dramatic increase from the past 15 years, when satisfaction was as low as 32%. But satisfaction may be leveling off, as it is unchanged from 2014.

Views on the morality of a variety of practices are largely stable, though fewer say same-sex relations are morally OK and more say the death penalty is.

The two major decisions recently handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court have very direct relationships to public opinion. One of the decisions fits well with majority public opinion. The other, in a broad sense, does not.

Fifty-three percent of Americans favor legal same-sex marriage, unchanged from last November and the third consecutive reading of 50% or higher. At the same time, Americans believe the U.S. public opposes gay marriage.

Roughly half of cohabiting same-sex couples in the U.S. are married as opposed to living in a domestic partnership. That is up from 38% before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide a year ago.

Americans say same-sex couples should be legally permitted to adopt children, the first time a majority in the U.S. has believed this. This outpaces the massive cultural shift toward support for same-sex marriage in the last 20 years.

One in four Americans have interacted with a chaplain at some point in their lives. Among those who have, most say the interaction was valuable.

What average Americans would say in a letter to their elected representatives.