Has the UK’s acceptance of gay relationships ‘peaked’?

Study finds first increase in disapproval of same-sex relationships since 1983

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Society’s acceptance of same-sex relationships has “reached a point of plateau” in the UK, according to a new study.

Some 66% of those polled in the latest annual British Social Attitudes survey said same-sex relations were “not wrong at all”, down from 68% the previous year.

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