Same-Sex Marriage
Voters in Kansas are at the polls Tuesday deciding whether Kansas will become the 14th state to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Gallup doesn't have specific polling data on what Kansas voters think about the amendment, but most observers in that conservative Midwestern state believe the amendment will pass easily.
Nationwide, there appears to be growing support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. A recent Gallup Poll shows 57% of Americans favor such a constitutional amendment, up from 48% last July and the previous high point of 53% measured last February.
More generally, 68% of Americans now say marriages between homosexuals should not be recognized by law as valid. That's the highest opposition to same-sex marriage Gallup has measured across the nine times this question has been asked over the last five years.