The American Family Association is running an online poll about homosexual marriage. They pledge: "Results of this poll will be presented to Congress." The homosexual behavior promotion community has gotten ahold of it and is circulating an email to get homosexuals to vote in this poll to embarrass the AFA. I would suggest those not in favor of homosexual marriage, vote.

The poll and results are here:

http://www.afa.net/petitions/marriagepoll.asp

Probably a good idea if you spread the word to as many people who you know.

I know, such polls are meaningless, unless you can use them to your political advantage ;)

In Christ, Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 29, 2003

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bump!

-- topping (top@top.com), December 29, 2003.

Ah!!! The wonders of democracy. Popularity is more important than eternal truth.

-- J. Fernandes (goananda@hotmail.com), December 29, 2003.

Ah!!! The wonders of democracy. Popularity is more important than eternal truth.

Hopefully not.

In Christ,
Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 30, 2003.

It's fantastic! It's just a shame I don't live in the USA and can't register a vote. The AFA are a disgrace, let's see how Christian they are when they turn the other cheek and hand the results over to their government.

-- Gemma Bradley (gemsb99@yahoo.co.uk), January 06, 2004.

Gemma,
Good question. I wonder if they will? Also wonder, if LAMDA would if the shoe were on the other food (or the Stonewall Foundation)? Or do you hold them up to a different code of conduct?

In Christ,
Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), January 06, 2004.

The real trouble here is the net itsself. Combined withthe fac tthat most long term net users are liberals, and anti-Christain, their is also the fact that most conservatives on the net may not be aware of the poll, and many people can vote twice on the poll if they have two or more ISP's. Ir even two computers. This, in addition to the rallying call of those who wan tto see the APA mbarassed, and their ability to spread the word very rapidly, makes this, as well as any, internet poll highly unreliable as a cross secyion of the American mindset.

Indeed, Americans are leaning away from support of Homosexiual marriage, but the bulkof hte net is leanign toward.

Just as roughly 50% of the ovters are republucan, but on the net we see mainly Democrats, so too is it an innaccurate poll here.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JU7NO.COM), January 07, 2004.

The real trouble here is the net itsself.

I don't think so, something like 85% of American households now have access to e-mail. What happened is that a homosexual group started an e-mail campaign to get their side to register in the poll. The AFA didn't. Also, I haven't seen the numbers change in weeks, so maybe it is different now, I don't know. But I would suggest forwarding a request to friends and having them vote, if you want to see different results in the poll.

In Christ,
Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@Hotmail.com), January 07, 2004.

The AFA has both a petition and a poll. Petions are generally and rightfully taken to areas in which the populace is most likely to sign. Polls, on the other hand, are supposed to be run in such a way as to gain as representative a cross-section of the population as possible. By putting the poll on their site where only conservatives would be likely to see it, the AFA seems to have intended to grossly skew the likely results. This would merely be annoying and bad science if the poll were confined to the entertainment of AFA members. however, AFA intended to present this survey to Congress to influence national polciy - pretty serious stuff. Unless the AFA was intending to present the poll as "this is how AFA members and other conservatives think," which I highly doubt, the AFA was engaging in deceit to present to Congress the poll results they wanted instead of the poll results they were likely to get from a survey of the general populace. I therefore applaud the saboteurs of this poll, as I would applaud any conservatives sabotaging an equally destructive poll from the opposite political side.

-- Kirk Johnson (MooCow000@aol.com), January 24, 2004.