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New poll says 51 percent favor constitutional amendment banning gay marriage

By Joe Kimball | 05/26/11

A new SurveyUSA/KSTP poll found 51 percent of registered voters support the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that will be on the ballot in Minnesota in November 2012.

Forty percent of those surveyed said they oppose the amendment; 8 percent said they won't vote and the rest are undecided. Pollsters said they surveyed 552 registered voters on May 23 and 24.

That's a drop in support from the results of a poll by the same group in March, which showed 62 percent in favor of the amendment and 33 percent opposed.

A Minnesota Poll from two weeks ago had an entirely different outcome, with 55 percent opposed to adding the amendment and 39 percent favoring it.

Comments (3)

Submitted by Patrick Wells on May 26, 2011 - 11:44pm.

The gay marriage amendment is part of the politics of distraction. It is an insult to our intelligence. Gay marriage is already illegal.

The constitutional amendment which is needed is one that insures a balanced budget to be produced on time. The balanced budget may be produced by binding arbitration or by forcing consideration of outside budget proposals (i.e. outsourcing the legislators' jobs).

Legislators should negotiate the budget. If they cannot, there should be a constutional mandate to consider alternatives and to insure that the government does not shut down.

Submitted by will lynott on May 27, 2011 - 9:32am.

I think the constitutional amendment that's really needed is a requirement for a legislative supermajority to get an amendment on the ballot. A simple majority requirement is too easy and fosters the kind of mischief we've seen this session. It's too tempting (and easy) to legislate by amendment when the governor calls you on your BS.

Say, 2/3 of both houses sounds good.

Submitted by Michael Zalar on May 28, 2011 - 4:04am.

The latest corporate equality index, which ranks major companies according to various criteria including "Equivalent Spousal and Partner Benifits" - eg treating gay partners to the equivalent benifits as spouses, ranked 337 companies at the highest level (100). To grab just a few names from the "A"s, we have Alcoa, Anheiser-Busch, Apple and AT&T, among others.
Should the anti gay marriage ammendment pass, some of these pro-gay companies might find more ammenible states to work in. It may well cost Minnesota jobs.