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Gallup Poll Shows Highest-Ever Acceptance of Homosexuality in America
Lifesite News ^ | 5/30/07 | Elizabeth O’Brien and John-Henry Westen

Posted on 05/30/2007 4:58:35 PM PDT by tuesday afternoon

PRINCETON, NJ - May 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Gallup Poll results, released this morning, indicate that tolerance of homosexuality within the United States has reached a record high. According to the Poll, since 1977 public support of legalization of “homosexual relations between consenting adults” has risen from 43% to a record-breaking 59%.

According to Gallup, the general trend is an increased support for homosexuality. Notably, the observed increase in acceptance of homosexuality has occurred concurrent with a nationwide promotion of homosexuality in the American public elementary school system.

LifeSiteNews.com covered a video-clip entitled “It’s Elementary” that shows a Gay Pride Day event at Cambridge Friends School in MA. Filmed over ten years ago, the clip shows how children of various grade levels are indoctrinated with the belief that homosexuality is an amoral and equally valid alternative lifestyle. Speaking in front of teachers and fellow-class mates, children explained their growing acceptance of homosexuals and the homosexual lifestyle.

In the film, an unidentified African American female teacher asks: "I don't know what to do about this but, as a school are we saying that kids have to support this? …If a child comes from a background that says homosexuality is not correct, are we telling that child that they're supposed to, this is what you are supposed to do?" An unidentified Caucasian female teacher responds, "I think that we are asking kids to believe this is right. Not as a matter of moral principal, but as a matter of, we're educating them and this is part of what we consider to be a healthy education." (see coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07042407.html ).

Further evidence that it is largely changes in the educational system that have brought about the increase in national acceptance of homosexuality is found in the vast disparity of opinion between the old and young. In the Gallup Poll, for example, only 45% of people of over 55 years of age support “homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle”; whereas young people from ages 18-34 years old are 75% in favor.

Gallup asks, “Do you think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriage?” The answers to this question clearly indicate support of legally valid homosexual-“marriage” has steadily risen over the past 11 years (from 27% to 46% in support since 1996). Gallup report author Lydia Saad notes, “This gay-marriage question follows a number of questions about homosexual rights in Gallup’s Values and Beliefs survey. When the same question is asked in other Gallup surveys that do not include such questions, a lower level of support for gay marriage is usually found.”

In light of Massachusetts permitting homosexual ‘marriage’, the poll results also give credence to warnings of family advocates who pointed out that the law is a teacher. In a 2005 letter to then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, then-Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic warned against legalizing homosexual marriage. He stated, “The law is a teacher. Does Canadian society as a whole, and do parents in particular, understand what the law will be teaching in this instance? It will be teaching that homosexual activity and heterosexual activity are morally equivalent. Public schools will be required to provide sex education in that light. Many parents, religious and non-religious, would not agree, nor would many, if not the majority, of Canadians. Is it fair to put children in the position of having to reconcile the values and beliefs of their parents with a novel state-sponsored understanding of marriage that may not be truly supported by the majority of Canadians?”

See the Gallup Poll Results: http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=27694


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: celebrateperversity; cultureofdeath; governmenteducation; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; mentalillness; moralabsolutes; spongebob
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Notably, the observed increase in acceptance of homosexuality has occurred concurrent with a nationwide promotion of homosexuality in the American public elementary school system.

I'm sure somewhere it's posted that taking over the education system is paramount to the Homosexual Agenda.

1 posted on 05/30/2007 4:58:37 PM PDT by tuesday afternoon
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To: tuesday afternoon
Big surprise. The way the elite media, academia and Hollywood has been pushing this agenda, I’m surprised it isn’t higher.
2 posted on 05/30/2007 5:00:40 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: tuesday afternoon

Acceptance is not what is wanted, nor is the problem.

It is not just about tolerance and acceptance.

America passed that along time ago.

It is to be celebrated and held up as example.


3 posted on 05/30/2007 5:03:07 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: tuesday afternoon

it’s a big orgy


4 posted on 05/30/2007 5:03:48 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Cinnamon

Probably going to pop somebody’s bubble...but homosexuality is immoral and is wrong...IMHO.

Meadow Muffin


5 posted on 05/30/2007 5:10:20 PM PDT by rwgal
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To: tuesday afternoon

59%? Poll taken in NYC and LA only!


6 posted on 05/30/2007 5:10:42 PM PDT by rocksblues (Warning, anti-illegal immigration posters are being watched by Big Brother)
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To: tuesday afternoon
Gallup asks, “Do you think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriage?”

It's a leading question to begin with. It assumes the word "marriage" between "same-sex " couples is already accepted as valid.

7 posted on 05/30/2007 5:11:40 PM PDT by period end of story
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Notably, the observed increase in acceptance of homosexuality has occurred concurrent with a nationwide promotion of homosexuality in the American public elementary school system.
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Shameful.


8 posted on 05/30/2007 5:13:24 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: tuesday afternoon

This is tragic.


9 posted on 05/30/2007 5:14:03 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: tuesday afternoon

Well, Hell, maybe it is just because no one seems aware of just exactly what is involved in being queer! I’m retired,from what I consider to have been a normal sex life, never, ever, was I tempted to stretch my arsehole out of shape, never figured I could do better than the “real stuff”!
Thing is, ain’t no way I will ever be made to feel guilt over being “normal”!
Some of Y’all are just too damned hung up on being popular!


10 posted on 05/30/2007 5:15:05 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: tuesday afternoon

Someone Please post the BS meter


11 posted on 05/30/2007 5:16:04 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: rocksblues
Yes I think the poll is suspect, even though I do not doubt support is increasing some. They tried to push these sorts of polls in all the states voting on gay marriage. They were nearly always wrong. Often waaay wrong.

Still, the law is a teacher and kids are easily influenced.

12 posted on 05/30/2007 5:16:19 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: joonbug
Big surprise. The way the elite media, academia and Hollywood has been pushing this agenda, I’m surprised it isn’t higher.

Don't forget the NEA with its training for teachers and how to sneak homo indoctrination into the class room.

13 posted on 05/30/2007 5:18:00 PM PDT by Always Right
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Notably, the observed increase in acceptance of homosexuality has occurred concurrent with a nationwide promotion of homosexuality in the American public elementary school system.

If the public schools stated to promote Hitler, I bet you 59% of the population would think that he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

14 posted on 05/30/2007 5:21:24 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: CMailBag

15 posted on 05/30/2007 5:23:24 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: tuesday afternoon
I blame Will & Grace.
16 posted on 05/30/2007 5:26:40 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
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To: tuesday afternoon
Image hosted by Photobucket.com not round here...
17 posted on 05/30/2007 5:35:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: joonbug

Twenty years or better of indoctrination is beginning to pay off I see.


18 posted on 05/30/2007 5:42:28 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Sleeping Beauty; wagglebee; abb; bert

Blame the consumers that patronize the advertisers that underwrite the programs!

And stop consuming those products.


19 posted on 05/30/2007 5:49:01 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
As it seems that School training is going to become law, how do you instruct your children/grand children too confront this without them being labeled as hate crime-rs?
20 posted on 05/30/2007 5:55:43 PM PDT by rocksblues (Warning, anti-illegal immigration posters are being watched by Big Brother)
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