Dec 21, 2003 / 22:00 pm
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll has found widespread support for an amendment to the United States Constitution to ban gay marriage, revealed the New York Times on December 20.
In the article, the NYT reveals that support for a constitutional amendment “extends across a wide swath of the public and includes a majority of people traditionally viewed as supportive of gay rights, including Democrats, women and people who live on the East Coast.”
It also found “unease about homosexual relations in general, making the issue a potentially divisive one for the Democrats and an opportunity for the Republicans in the 2004 election.”
According to the poll, for 53 percent of Americans, marriage is largely a religious matter, and 71 percent of those people oppose gay marriage. Only 33 percent of Americans say marriage is largely “a legal matter” and a slight majority of those people — 55 percent — say they support gay “marriage.”