Pacific Views

Support for same-sex civil unions rising.

The clamor against same-sex marriage coming from the White House, GOP, and religious right apparently isn't working exactly as planned. While a new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that opposition to lesbian/gay marriages has risen since last fall, support for same-sex civil unions is up substantially. And what's especially interesting is that the biggest growth in that support has come since San Francisco and Multnomah County (OR) have been allowing lesbian and gay couples to marry.