In early May, 2008, the Gallup Poll research team surveyed 1,017 adults nationwide about issues concerning homosexuality:

• When asked if homosexuality should be considered an acceptable alternative lifestyle, 57 percent indicated it was acceptable (up 9 percent from a 2007 Gallup poll), while 40 percent found it unacceptable (down 6 percent from 2007).
  
  
• When asked if marriages between same-sex couples should be recognized by the law as valid just as traditional marriages are, 40 percent said they should (down 6 percent from a 2007 Gallup poll), while 56 percent said they should not (up three percent from 2007).
  
  
• When asked if they would favor a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as being between a man and a woman, "thus barring marriages between gay or lesbian couples," 49 percent would favor such a move (down 1 percent from a 2006 Gallup poll), while 48 percent would oppose (up 1 percent).