text: SSM support among Catholics depends on the poll.  I'd be interested to know what polls you've seen that put opposition to SSM at 70%.  In 2009, Gallup had statistics on whether homosexual relations were considered moral or not.  61% of those who did not attend Church regularly said they were, while 44% of those who attended regularly said they were.  But consider either of those numbers and what they would have been 10 or 20 years ago.  Also consider that younger people are more likely to support SSM.  Do you seriously believe there is anything which will reverse the upward trend in those numbers?  This year's Gallup poll shows record highs in the belief that gay sexual relations are moral.  They also conclude that over time there has been zero evidence of a shift to more conservative beliefs.  There is an even greater gap between what the Church teaches about sex and what Catholics who either go to Church regularly or not believe.