Update (August 21st, 2003)
New AP poll (conducted Aug 8-12) results today on this topic:
54% of us would be in favor of a constitutional amendment specifying that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
52% of us would favor a law that would ban gay marriages.
49% of us would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who favored gay marriage.
44% of us would be less likely to support a candidate who favored gay civil unions.
53% of us would oppose a gay civil union law that provided the same rights and benefits as heterosexual married couples.
A thin margin, at best. Undecideds averaged only 5%...
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