Poll shows most oppose same sex marriage ban

More likely voters oppose than favor a November ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in the state constitution, according to a survey released Friday.AP in the Daily News.

The Field Poll found that 51 percent of likely voters say they would vote against Proposition 8, while 42 percent say they would vote for it.

The poll shows a turnaround from 2000, when 61 percent of voters cast ballots in favor Proposition 22, which strengthened the state's 1978 one-man, one-woman marriage law with the words "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."