Poll: More New Yorkers support gay marriage

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Poll: More New Yorkers support gay marriage

(Albany) A poll finds growing support for same-sex marriage in New York as a bill languishing in the state Senate is scheduled for a special session.

The Quinnipiac University poll finds 51 percent of New Yorkers support the legalization of same-sex marriage. Forty-one percent oppose it.

This is the first time the Quinnipiac poll found majority support for the measure.

Gov. David Paterson says he will compel the Senate to consider final legislative approval of the bill in a special session that he says will begin Tuesday.

The Assembly already passed the bill. Paterson says he will sign it into law if the Senate passes it.

The poll questioned 2,477 voters from June 16 to Sunday. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 points.

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