FEWER BACK GAY COUPLES
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
By GREG HANLON
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Although New Jersey recently enacted legislation allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, support for gay couples among Hudson County residents is substantially lower than it was in 2003, when the first cases seeking recognition of gay marriage were filed, according to a recent The Jersey Journal/New Jersey City University poll.

The poll shows that 42.2 percent of respondents support civil unions, 29.7 percent oppose them and 28 percent either did not respond or said they were not sure. the rest