POLLAGE: NEARLY 60% BACK CURRENT WASHINGTON MARRIAGE LAW: From the Seattle Times

Nearly 60 percent of Washington residents, in a statewide poll conducted before this month's elections, said the state law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman should not be changed.

Eighty-eight percent of those surveyed said marriage is not an outmoded, old-fashioned institution, and more than 90 percent said they expected their own marriages to last the rest of their lives. ...

Wirthlin Worldwide polled 402 Washington adults by telephone between Oct. 6-9. The firm said the survey has a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
Among the poll's findings:

Thirty-nine percent said they were not aware of the same-sex marriage cases pending before the state Supreme Court.

Fifty-nine percent of the poll respondents said the definition of marriage should not be changed, while 39 percent said they thought it should be.

Fifty-seven percent said marriage should remain between one man and one woman, while 41 percent said it should be between two loving adults, regardless of their gender.

(By comparison, a Seattle Times poll this spring found slightly more than 50 percent of those surveyed said same-sex couples should be denied the right to marry, while 44 percent supported gay marriage.)

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