A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 58% of Americans support allowing same-sex couples to have the same right as heterosexual couples to marry, which is an all-time high for support for marriage equality, while 36% of Americans still oppose marriage equality.
This comes as the Republican National Committee has released a so-called "autopsy report" that, in part, effectively concedes that one of the positions in the Republican platform, opposition to same-sex marriage, is probably going to be outside the political mainstream in this country in a few years, and that Republicans should "change their tone" on "social issues that are turning off young voters." At the same time, however, the RNC's "autopsy report" calls for the GOP to "be proud of its conservative principles." Basically, that is the RNC's way of telling Republicans that, while the RNC is still officially against same-sex marriage, they don't want Republican candidates talking about that on the campaign trail.
When a political party decides that they don't want their members talking about the party's position on a certain political issue, that means that party's platform is too extreme for America. That is exactly what has happened with the Republican Party when it comes to LGBT rights.