Poll: Gay Marriage Support Hits New High - Central Coast News KION/KCBA

(CTNS) - A new poll shows public support for gay marriage has hit a new high as Americans increasingly see homosexuality not as a choice but as a way some people are.

The Washington Post- ABC poll shows that 58 percent of Americans now believe it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to get married; 36 percent say it should be illegal.

Public attitudes toward gay marriage are a mirror image of what they were a decade ago: in 2003, 37 percent favored gay nuptials, and 55 percent opposed them.

The Supreme Court takes up the issue of gay marriage next week.

Nearly two-thirds of all Americans say the matter should be decided for all states on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, not with each state making its own laws.