Residents of the 27 nations that make up the European Union are all over the board on gay acceptance, the latest Eurobarometer poll has found, San Francisco Bay Times reported.
32 percent of those polled support same-sex adoption. Approval ranges from highs of 69 percent in the Netherlands, 51 percent in Sweden and 44 percent in Austria and Denmark to lows of 7 percent in Malta and Poland and 8 percent in Latvia and Romania.
Overall, 44 percent support same-sex marriage, but the support ranges from highs of 82 percent in the Netherlands, 71 percent in Sweden and 69 percent in Denmark to lows of 11 percent in Romania, 12 percent in Latvia and 14 percent in Cyprus.
The poll is conducted every six months. It questions 30,000 people and has a margin of error of 1.9 to 3.1 percentage points.
Majority support for same-sex marriage also was found in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. Full same-sex marriage already is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. In France, meanwhile, 62 percent of respondents in a different poll said they support letting same-sex couples marry, and 55 percent support gay adoption. The Ipsos poll, published by the gay magazine Têtu, questioned 1,008 adults in November.
France has offered gay couples civil unions for six years.
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