According to an Opinion Dynamics/Fox News poll, 60 percent of Americans favor some form of legal recognition for gay unions -- 30 percent favor gay marriage, and 30 percent back civil unions. Despite such polls, Americans overwhelmingly have shown at the ballot box they do not support counterfeit marriages.
Jim Pfaff, cofounder of Colorado Family Action, said the survey was reported with bias.
"It says here that 30 percent of people want to allow same-sex couples to get legally married," he told Family News in Focus, "but it doesn't talk about the fact that 70 percent don't."
Colorado was one of seven states that passed constitutional amendments earlier this month to protect marriage from redefinition. In all, 27 states have passed such amendments. Seventeen others have some form of legal protection in place, such as a Defense of Marriage Act.
Glenn Stanton, a spokesman for Focus on the Family, said there's only one poll that matters.
"When people vote with their feet and go out and support these things, that's a very, very strong statement," he said. "Polls come and polls go."
Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth, said most Americans are more comfortable expressing their true beliefs in the voting booth than to a pollster on the phone.
"The problem is that a lot of people sort of drank the Kool-Aid, thinking that if they criticize homosexuality then they're some kind of intolerant person or a bigot or a homophobe," he said. "Whether it's politically acceptable – politically correct or not, it really shouldn't affect our position."
