Poll shows 61 percent of Californians back gay marriage

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Poll shows 61 percent of Californians back gay marriage

By Ronnie Cohen
SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:40pm EST

(Reuters) - California voters favor same-sex marriage by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, a poll showed on Thursday, a month before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a gay marriage ban approved by the state's residents in 2008.

The Field Poll found 61 percent of surveyed voters in California believe gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to wed, the highest level of support the organization has ever found on that question in the state.

The findings represent a shift in public opinion on the matter since November 2008, when 52 percent of voters in California approved Proposition 8 to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Leading up to that vote, polls had shown the public narrowly divided on the question.

Defenders of Proposition 8 discounted the random survey.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/01/us-usa-marriage-california-idUSBRE92000Z20130301

[MNBrewer]

1. Time to put it back on the ballot

so that regardless of how the SCOTUS rules, marriage equality will become law in CA.

[petronius]

2. I would really like that to happen - Prop H8 is such an embarrassment for

our state; the sooner it's gone the better, but I'd rather we Californians fixed it ourselves at the ballot box...