66% in Omaha back legal recognition of gay couples

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10637374

Published Tuesday May 19, 2009
66% in Omaha back legal recognition of gay couples
BY ELIZABETH AHLIN
©2009 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD



About two-thirds of Omaha residents would support some sort of legal recognition of gay couples' relationships.




But most voters still oppose same-sex marriage.

Those are the results of The World-Herald Poll, which was conducted last month.



When asked how they felt about legally recognizing gay couples, Omaha voters were split into three roughly equal camps. About one-third supported same-sex marriage, one-third favored civil unions only, and about one third opposed both civil unions and marriages for gay couples.

"If only a third of the population is dead set opposed to some sort of legal blessing to gay unions, I find that kind of significant," said Kevin Smith, political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "It's one thing to find that in Massachusetts; it's another thing to find that in Omaha."

The World-Herald Poll was conducted by telephone April 28-30 by Wiese Research Associates. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

For a full report on the poll, see Tuesday's print or e-editions of the World-Herald

[mwb970]

1. Of course, Omaha is a city, probably filled with evil liberals.

I wonder if the "real Americans" out in the sticks (or the fields, or whatever they have in Nebraska) feel the same way.

[Wapsie B]

2. They need to redistrict Nebraska so those 34%ers are off by themselves.