According to a recent Rutgers-Eagleton Poll of 1,002 NJ adults, two-thirds of NJ respondents favor civil unions. On the marriage issue, 48 percent favored gay marriage, while 44 percent opposed it. But here's the most heartening news --
Nearly three in five people between 18 and 29 favor gay marriage, compared with about half of voters between 30 and 64, and one-third of those over 65.
That age division holds in many other poll results I've seen. In a decade, opponents of gay rights are going to seem like remnants of a bigoted past.