Poll Shows Majority Of People In The UK Think Yeshivas Should Be Forced To Teach Homosexuality

We have asked you whether LGBT rights should also be included in faith schools' curriculum and you said: YES.

More than 50% of the people who took the poll said they would like to see gay rights taught at parochial schools  (yeshivas).

Over 36% said they wouldn't like to have their children discussing the topic at school whereas 12% said that it would depend on how the subject would be taught.

The poll was set after theEducation Ministry said that faith schools will not be forced to include LGBT rights in their curriculum. after they sent in Government Inspectors Teach Jewish Girls About Same Sex "Marriage" In Orthodox Girls Schools.

A reader has reacted to the poll on our Facebook page.

Joanne Jones said: "We all need to be tolerant of each other no matter what our sexual preferences, culture or religion. Thought that was a normal way of thinking in 2014 for the UK?"

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Poll Says Majority Of American Support Forcing Shuls/Churchs To Hire Gays

According to a new Harris poll released Thursday, two-thirds of Americans support federal legislation that would bar employers from "discriminating" against workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and 55 percent reject exemptions for any employers -- even Shuls/churches.

35% of American's think Shuls should not be forced to hire gays

The online survey, conducted Sept. 10-18 with Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and Witeck Communications, found that only 35 percent of Americans think religious organizations are legally justified to "discriminate" against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers on faith-based grounds. Slightly fewer respondents, 30 percent, made the same exception for privately held businesses. About 1 in 5 Americans said publicly held businesses should be able to claim a religious exemption as well, according to the survey, which interviewed 2,543 adults in the United States.

In July, President Barack Obama issued an executive order protecting LGBT employees of federal contractors and the federal government from employment "discrimination". The provision pertaining to federal contractors, which does not grant any exemptions for religiously affiliated contractors, affects 24,000 companies employing nearly one-fifth of the U.S. workforce. But in 29 states, all other workers can still be legally fired or harassed for being gay, lesbian or bisexual. For transgender employees, that's true in 32 states.

30% of Americans believe that a kosher restaurant should be required to hire gays who flaunt it

In Congress, legislation to remedy this gap has passed the Senate but stalled in the GOP-controlled House. The Employment Non-"Discrimination" Act, which would protect all LGBT workers from workplace "discrimination", has also lost support from a number of gay rights groups in recent months because of its inclusion of a wide-reaching religious exemption that would give faith-affiliated businesses legal cover to "discriminate" against LGBT employees.

"I think there's a broad consensus that the rules should apply to everyone including shuls, Yeshiva, and kollels, which is why we withdrew our support from ENDA," Jennifer Pizer, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, explained in an Associated Press interview earlier this month. "If you have different standards, then it communicates a message that some kinds of "discrimination" are not as serious as others."

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granted the poll may be biased but even if it is it will be used to force this position into law

Shuls beware your next "rabbi" might be forced to be a homosexual

Gallup Poll Says Most Americans Support Assisted Suicide

 How Polls Can Be Misused

Nearly 70 Percent Of Americans Support Euthanasia actually many may have interpreted the question to include things lesser like withholding food, But Opinions Vary By Religiosity  by saying 70% support Euthanasia when it really substantially less, it changes weak minded people who are good on this issue because they don't want to be part of the "30"%

A strong majority of Americans support "euthanasia" and have done so for the past 20 years yet in the 2012 election it lost a vote in the liberal state of Massachusetts 51.9% -48.1%. Nearly 70% are in favor of giving physicians the ability to legally "end [a] patient's life by some painless means which can include not doing things to save the persons life which many times will still problematic, is not even remotely as bad as assisted suicide," but opinions vary dramatically by religiosity and by the wording of the question, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Pew Research's Religion & Public Life Project gathered summaries from 16 major American religious groups in 2013 outlining their faiths' stance on euthanasia. Almost all of the 16 expressed either strong opposition or serious concern over "prematurely ending a person’s life," with the exceptions being the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

Gallup also found that only 48% of Americans who attend weekly religious services support "euthanasia", compared to 82% of those who attend religious services less than once a month.

General support decreased from 69% to 58% when Gallup inquired about support for "doctor-assisted suicide." Whether a case of wording or a genuinely subtle distinction between doctor-assisted suicide and euthanasia, the issue sparked debate in 2013 when a 44-year-old transgender "man" in Brussels deliberately ended his life with the help of a physician.
or maybe it's like Lifesite news said
The Gallup poll question is vague.
The Gallup poll question refers to ending a patient’s life by some painless means. Many Americans believe that withholding or withdrawing medical treatment is the same as euthanasia and many Americans confuse palliative care with euthanasia.
Euthanasia has been legal in Belgium since 2002 they're now trying to allow child euthanasia, but in Nathan Verhelst's case some may wonder whether emotional pain constitutes as grounds for euthanasia, as the pain of the elderly or dying might.

even if "only" 50% of the country is in favor of assisted suicide we have a major problem.

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from a Aug 2009 Time (very liberal) magazine article about euthanasia

American's please sign this petition against Euthanasia

Canadians please sign this petition against  

Remember this is a serious concern Quebec (Montreal) recently (‎in the beginning of June) allowed assisted suicide

Quebec passes law allowing assisted "suicide"

Posted Fri 6 Jun 2014, 11:43am AEST

Montreal  - Canada's Quebec province adopted legislation Thursday allowing terminally ill patients to kill themselves with a doctor's help, becoming the first jurisdiction in the country Canada to effectively legalize assisted "suicide".

The move sets the stage for a judicial row with Ottawa, as federal criminal law forbids euthanasia even with a person's consent.

Opponents have said it will undermine confidence in doctors' care, but there is growing demand for the suffering to have more control over their parting.

To get around Canada's criminal law against assisted "suicide", Quebec is expected to argue that this is a "health" issue, which falls under its jurisdiction, and not a criminal matter.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard defended the bill, saying it dealt with end of life care, and "not euthanasia."

The French-speaking province's former health minister said when it was unveiled last year that the law would allow Quebecers to face "their final days in a more "serene" way, and in accordance with their "wishes"."
But critics, including some doctors, philosophers, ethicists, lawyers and clergymen, warned it could lead to abuses and unnecessary deaths.

The option is only available to adult Quebec residents who are suffering from a terminal illness, and an independent doctor must concur with the prognosis.

Four US states -- Montana, Oregon Israel's proposed assisted "suicide" law was based on Oregon's, Vermont and Washington -- have similar statutes on the books.
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