Switzerland gears up to vote in same-sex marriage referendum

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The government and parliament approved marriage for same-sex couples last year, allowing them to adopt children not parented by either partner, giving lesbian couples access to sperm donation, and simplifying citizenship for foreign spouses.
49% : Swiss voters will determine on Sunday whether to allow same-sex couples to wed and enjoy the same rights as heterosexual marriage partners, after a bitter referendum campaign in one of the last western Europeans countries still to ban gay marriage.
43% : A referendum early last year approved the criminalisation of homophobic acts, and the legalisation of same-sex marriage would bring Switzerland in line with most western European countries, with Italy only other major country where it is not legal.
42% : As someone in a same-sex partneship, she told Reuters, she currently could not.
39% : Guntern, also 30, said it was not fair that a single woman could adopt a child while a same-sex couple could not. "
37% : Same-sex marriage is still illegal, however, in many eastern European countries, and is outlawed by the constitution in Poland and Hungary.

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