Americans want 'gay' lessons banished

Americans want 'gay' lessons banished
WorldNetDaily ^ | April 26, 2011 | Bob Unruh

Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:40:25 AM by AustralianConservative

An overwhelming majority of Americans say elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom, according to a new poll.

The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. 

"Whether they object on moral grounds or simply out of concern that many U.S. schools are failing in their core missions of teaching basics doesn't really matter – the vast majority of American adults want this type of curriculum kept out of the classroom," Wenzel chief Fritz Wenzel said.

The scientific telephone survey was done April 19-21, and has a margin of error of 3.23 percentage points. It found that 65 percent of all respondents objected to teaching elementary school children that homosexuality is a "normal alternative lifestyle."
The question was, "Do you believe elementary school children should be taught that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle?"

Only 22 percent agreed that would be right, and only 13 percent were unsure.
Nearly 80 percent of the self-identified members of the GOP objected, as did nearly 60 percent of the independents. Even among those who identified with the Democrat Party, more than 55 percent said those lessons are not appropriate.

"Americans are particularly averse to the introduction of gay issues into the curriculum of the nation's elementary schools," Wenzel said. "Two out of every three respondents said they oppose the teaching to elementary school students that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle, an attitude that is mirrored across the political spectrum.

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