HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 17 (UPI)

Most Connecticut voters support a State Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, a Quinnipiac University poll indicated Wednesday.

By a margin of 52 percent to 39 percent, with 9 percent undecided, poll respondents said they agreed with the October state high court ruling, in which judges by a 4-3 margin ruled that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.

Pollsters said that when given three choices, 43 percent of Connecticut voters said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, while 39 percent said they should be allowed to form civil unions but not marry and 12 percent said there should be no legal recognition of same-sex unions.

“Connecticut voters are not in love with same-sex marriage as a bare majority backs the state Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex couples to wed,” said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz. “But four out of five voters support some legal recognition for same-sex unions.”

The poll was conducted Dec. 11-15 among 1,445 Connecticut registered voters and carried a margin of error of 2.6 percentage points.

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