Time will solve marriage debate

July 23, 2010

Posted by Matt Leach on www.recordnet.com

A new Field Poll shows that a slight majority of California's registered voters favor gay marriage, but that edge disappears when voters are given the option of "civil unions."

Still, the poll shows a continued softening of the previous hard line against same-sex marriages. In 1977, nearly 60 percent of registered voters disapproved of same-sex marriage.

The poll comes as a federal judge is considering if Proposition 8, with which state voters narrowly banned gay marriage in 2008, violates constitutional equal rights protections.

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