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Poll: New Yorkers split on same-sex marriage
By The Associated Press
05.14.2009 1:16pm EDT

(Albany) The latest poll shows New Yorkers are split on whether to legalize same-sex marriage even as the state Legislature moves closer to the landmark action.

The Quinnipiac University poll finds 46 percent favor legalizing same-sex marriage, and 46 percent were opposed. In a 2004 poll, Quinnipiac found 55 percent of New Yorkers opposed same-sex marriage.

But the poll finds most New Yorkers _ 65 percent _ support civil unions that could provide most or all of the legal and property rights already given to married heterosexual couples.

The poll released Thursday comes two days after the Assembly approved the measure and sent it to the Senate.

Quinnipiac questioned 2,828 voters from May 5 through Monday. The poll has a margin of error of just under 2 percentage points.

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