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Poll: Americans Split on Same-sex Marriage Rights
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          Aug 11, 2010
          
        
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A new CNN poll finds nearly half of all Americans think the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry.

"Forty-nine percent of respondents think gay and lesbian couples have the constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law, while 51 percent say those rights do not exist."

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