"Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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> In article "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> writes:
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> <"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> <> Canadian sodomy polls:
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> <> Only 40% of Canadians agree "gay marriages" should be recognized.
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> <Not true. It's higher than 50%. A recent survey has indicated this. In
> <fact it was on all the news. There was even something posted on ARW
about
> <this.
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>> Yep. All provinces except Alberta. Alberta. Big surprise, eh?
>>>> -- cary
These polls from advocacy organizations like Gallup and Environics Research
cannot ever be trusted, ever again, particularly AFTER state after state
passed "DOMAs" [defense of marriage acts] in far larger numbers than these
STUPID pollsters ever predicted.
Environics and Gallup UNDER-predicted public support for these DOMAs by 29%
and 27%, respectively. Environics' poll showed that only 41% and Gallup
showed that only 43% supported DOMAs, but up to 70% of the voters in some
states voted in favor of these laws outlawing "gay marriages".
They were off by almost HALF.
It's doubtful if Canadians are any more accepting of legalized sodomy than
Americans are, in spite of what parsetree "thinks".
It's yet another example of "women's intuition" gone wild.
John Knight
http://christianparty.net/sodomypollcanada.htmhttp://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/tfn/2001/051101.html
GAY MARRIAGE - THE PROBLEM OF POLLS
What do approval ratings show, and how dependable are they? The recent
Environics Research poll of 2,035 Canadians reported in the National Post
found that 55% support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, while 41%
are opposed. Only four months earlier, a MacLean's / Global Television
Network poll of 1,400 Canadians found only 40% of respondents agreeing that
Canada should recognize gay marriages, with 44% disagreeing. A complete
reversal in four months? Not likely.
The Environics poll is inconsistent with a larger body of evidence. The
Canadian Election Study released in December 2000 found that 48% of
Westerners and 45% of Ontarians disapproved of allowing same sex couples to
marry. A Gallup Canada poll released in March 2000 reflected the MacLean's
poll, and found that 43% approved of same-sex marriage, while 48% were
opposed.
The Environics summary also states that the 2001 poll is part of a five-year
growth trend in support of gay marriage, following 1999 data where the
figures were split 34% both for and against. However, those 1999 figures are
in striking contrast with another poll conducted by Angus Reid for Globe and
Mail and CTV in the same year which found 53% in favour of homosexual
marriage and 44% opposed. Read alongside the MacLean's more recent poll, one
could argue that support for gay marriage has actually decreased.
Polls are interesting gauges. Like thermometers, where they are placed and
how they are administered must be taken into account when the results are
analyzed and a prognosis given. One measurement does not a certainty make.
When we find one surprising result, the conclusion we come to is that more
measurements and tests - further conversations - are required. This latest
poll, like the various others in the past few years, indicates growing
confusion about the issue of marriage and homosexuality.
Dr. Mark Genuis, head of the Calgary-based National Foundation for Family
Research and Education, says the way to resolve the issue is to hold a
national debate on the definition of marriage - adding he believes if such a
debate were held, most Canadians would decide against same-sex marriage.
Divided opinion polls only point to issues that need to be discussed. They
do not provide a basis for making radical changes to an institution of
foundational importance.
DUTCH DOCTORS ALONE IN SUPPORTING EUTHANASIA
An organisation representing physicians around the world will ask its
members to reiterate their opposition to euthanasia when they meet in New
Delhi in October. CNSNews.com reported this week that at a recent meeting in
France, the council of the eight-million-member World Medical Association
passed a draft resolution affirming the WMA's "strong belief that euthanasia
is in conflict with basic ethical principles of medical practice." The
resolution urges all member associations and doctors not to practice
euthanasia, "even if national law allows it or decriminalizes it under
certain conditions."
Of the 72 national bodies represented - including the Canadian Medical
Association - only the Royal Dutch Medical Association voted against the
resolution. Last month, the Netherlands Senate approved legislation that
made their country the first in the world to endorse euthanasia. But
London-based WMA spokesman Nigel Duncan says the resolution was not aimed
specifically at their Dutch colleagues. "We think euthanasia is wrong, we
think the Dutch medical association is wrong," he told CNSNews.com, "and the
WMA is urging all doctors, whether they're Dutch or whatever, not to take
part in this."
Dr. Karel Gunning, president of the World Federation of Doctors who Respect
Human Life - and who is himself Dutch - welcomed the WMA's draft resolution
as "extremely good." But he also warned that since the Senate vote,
euthanasia advocates in other countries, including France, Germany, Belgium
and Britain, have stepped up efforts to persuade their governments to follow
the Dutch example.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_ucc.htm
A poll taken by the Church revealed that only 28% of the membership favored
the admission of active homosexuals into the ministry.
