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Article: Poll: Majority of Americans against gay marriage; 52 percent would favor a law banning them
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP) - More than half of Americans favor a law barring
gay marriage and specifying wedlock be between a man and a woman, an
Associated Press poll found.
The survey also found presidential candidates could face a
backlash if they support gay marriage or civil unions, which provide
gay couples the legal rights and benefits of marriage.
The poll, conducted for the AP by ICR-International Communications
Research of Media, Pa., found 52 percent favor a law banning gay
marriages, while 41 percent oppose it.
About four in 10 - 41 percent - support allowing civil unions,
roughly the same level found in an AP poll three years ago. But 53
percent now say they oppose civil unions, up from 46 ...