Massachusetts voters are divided over gay marriage

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters are as divided as the courts and the state Legislature on the question of gay marriage, according to a new poll.

Forty-four percent of voters polled said they opposed legalizing gay marriage while 42 percent said they favored it, well within the poll's 5 percent margin of error. Fourteen percent were undecided in the survey by Suffolk University and WHDH-TV.

But asked if homosexual couples should be allowed to form civil unions that would give them the same legal rights as heterosexual couples, 62 percent said they favored civil unions while 26 percent were opposed and 12 percent were undecided.