National polls for same-sex marriage closing in on 50%; Majority favor legal recognition for gay couples

Posted by duy
May 1, 2009 7:08 AM |
ABC News / Washington Post report that nearly half of Americans favor gay marriage.
At its low, in 2004, just 32 percent of Americans favored gay marriage, with 62 percent opposed. Now 49 percent support it versus 46 percent opposed -- the first time in ABC/Post polls that supporters have outnumbered opponents.

CBS News / New York Times report this week that:

Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. That's up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.

AP reports that a Quinnipiac University poll reveals that:
By 55-38 percent, voters said they did not want their state to allow same-sex couples to marry. However, by 57-38 percent, they favored allowing such couples to form civil unions that would provide marriage-like rights and by 53-40 percent they supported allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.

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