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  Poll: Most in U.S. want ban on gay marriage
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News DateMonday, August 18, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
Description"The poll, conducted for the AP by ICR-International Communications Research of Media, Pa., found 52% favor a law banning gay marriages, while 41% oppose it.

About four in 10 — 41% — support allowing civil unions, roughly the same level found in an AP poll three years ago. But 53% now say they oppose civil unions, up from 46% in the earlier survey.

....The poll found 54% favor a constitutional amendment that gay marriage only be between a man and a woman, while 42% oppose it.

....The poll of 1,028 adults from every state but Alaska and Hawaii was conducted from Aug. 8-12 and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points."
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