70% of Brits oppose gay marriage.

This is interesting, and odd in light of the fact that I recently listened to a British debate on gay marriage via Unbelievable, where the gay marriage proponent was claiming that polling showed that a majority of Brits favored gay marriage.

According to this Telegraph article:

In the first test of opinion carried out since the launch of a high-profile campaign against the proposed change, 70 per cent of respondents agreed with the proposition that marriage should remain a “life-long exclusive commitment between a man and a woman”.

Only 22 per cent disagreed while nine per cent remained unsure, according to the ComRes survey carried out for the religious campaign group Catholic Voices.

But the poll also found strong support for civil partnerships for same-sex couples with six out of 10 people showing their approval.

While 68 per cent of respondents agreed with the idea that marriage is important to society and should be promoted by the state, support was much stronger among married people, at 83 per cent, compared with 55 per cent of single people.

Dr Austen Ivereigh, coordinator of Catholic Voices, said: “Our poll shows that the Government has no mandate to alter an institution which lies at the foundation of our society.

What it looks like is that the British gay marriage proponents are doing the same thing that their American counterparts are doing, i.e., dishonestly counting pro-civil union people as being pro-gay marriage, when in fact they are anti-gay marriage.

Evidence that this poll is accurate may be found in the further polling showing that British Members of Parliament acknowledge that their constituents are anti-gay marriage: