I am a 66 year old straight female and I think everyone should be able to form unions, get married, spiritually AND legally, and have families. Why should anyone be excluded from the basic rights?

This poll as the 1 in California and all others are BS. Check the other polls that have just come out that say the cultural shift has not happened. As long as the religious right can connect the question to religion instead of secular benefits, we will never - ever see equality. Equality comes when we hit their pocketbooks - when we fight for "Taxation WITH representation" when we can pay our taxes and get equal benefits. These people lie to the pollsters because they are religious & have moral pangs of misgivings for the hatred they sow; however, they will still walk into a election & vote against equality because we are "an abomination" right there with the other 869 verses of Liviticus -- including stoning out of control kids & selling women into slavery. We get pushed into the closet now; you are next -- whoever you are.

I think the state should establish civil marriage which could be between opposite sex couples or same sex couples. Civil marriage should have all the protections and responsibilities afforded by current marriage laws. Religious marriages should be governed by the beliefs and practices of the religion or denomination solemnizing the marriage. Thus couples getting married would have a civil ceremony or procedure and might or might not have a separate religious ceremony, depending upon whether they were religious and if religious whether their religion or denomination agreed to solemnize their union. This is similar to the practices of France.

One of the most maddening arguments in the fight against equal rights for gay marriage is the concept of "defending" straight marriage or "defending" families, as evidenced by the Prop 8 debacle in California.

I am a straight woman happily married - now. I have compelling evidence that allowing gay marriage will actually strengthen straight marriage, as opposed to some people's contention that it harms it somehow.

In my first marriage, I was married to an angry man, a man who abused me, a man who was unhappy with his seemingly picture perfect family and life. Turns out he was gay. He didn't want to be, he fought it all his life, but it was a losing battle. When we all finally figured out what the problem was, we divorced. My feeling is that if society accepts gay marriage and allows more respect for the existance of homosexuality, perhaps my first husband wouldn't have felt to compelled to hide who he is and to marry someone he couldn't really love. Divorce could have been avoided.

He is a loving father to his two children and I want him to be a role model to them. Perhaps one or both of our children will have inherited his gay genetics. I want them to not have to go through the agony that he did. I want there to be societal acceptance of a trait that can't be changed just like left-handedness or physical stature.

I had felt a little more optimistic of attitudes changing until the passage of Prop 8. The fight for equal rights is still a long way from victorious. I will fight it on behalf of all my gay brothers and sisters and especially for my children, no matter who they love when they grow up!

I don't believe it. Remember Referendum i?? It got voted down. I don't think opinion has changed that much in this short span of time, though it is nice, wishful thinking.

I find these poll numbers very positive and encouraging, and believe these positive numbers will only go up, in Colorado and nationally.
Good on ya, neighbors!

They probably all lied. They say one thing outside the voting booth and vote another way when they get in there!! Isn't that what happened with prop 8? Isn't that what happened with amendment 2? we didn't think they would pass based on the poles, but the poles lied.

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I think it would be a good idea to start our own defense of marriage initiative!!

I agree with Carolyn but then I have felt this way since I was in my late teens. I am a straight white female, now 72, and nothing has changed in my thinking.
All people should be able to have the same rights, all rights. However, I still have hope-never thought that we would have a Black President in my time and shed many tears of joy that it has happened. I will probably shed tears of joy when I finally know that the GLBT has succeeded in their quest for what is right. Good luck to you all I will vote and with my conscience and for all your rights. Anything is possible.

With all the problems this Nation, and the entire Universe is facing, why waste so much time and money on other peoples business? People are losing their homes, jobs, life savings, etc., yet the "Do Gooders" of the world have nothing better to do than worry about the "OTHERS". I've heard all the arguements, and, not a one has made a lick of sense to me. Let's just all live together, and work, together, to get the economy and the real problems taken care of, amen.

While the poll numbers look good I'm not sure 502 people polled is a big enough number to really show what the mind set is in the state. I agree way too many people will say one thing and vote another. Wish it wasn't so.
We have come a long way toward equal rights for many different people. I believe we will get there eventually...hope I live to see it.

Thank's for the information.

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