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...progress the nation has made in the nearly 30 years since the birth of the American gay rights movement in 1969, there remains a large and growing homophobia from coast to coast. According to a recent Gallup poll, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual behavior is morally wrong. And last summer, Senate Majority Trent Lott (R-Miss.) compared homosexuals to Kleptomaniacs and alcoholics...
...threats of Columbine-like violence. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., junior and senior high school classes were canceled after a bomb threat was reported in an Internet chat group. In Spotswood, N.J., an 18-year-old was arrested after he threatened to blow up his high school. According to a Gallup poll, 37% of 13- to 17-year-olds nationwide have heard of Columbine-style threats at their own schools, and 20% said their schools had been evacuated because of a bomb threat...
...Forstmann's pocket, will ultimately do. For then they will be vouchers, which set off alarms because they involve tinkering with what Jefferson envisioned as the "gratis" common school, the one institution that could make good on the Constitution's promise of equality. According to a 1997 Gallup poll, most Americans are happy with public schools. Few parents in Greenwich, Conn., would take their child out of its fine public schools for a voucher of $1,600. But in inner-city Hartford, many parents would sensibly embrace them, which would leave the public schools there in even worse shape...
...President Clinton's lofty national approval ratings in conventional, scientific surveys were definitely not reflected in TIME Daily's own polls -- a twist that caused our voters no end of consternation. But that's the Web's own "caveat surfer," and it's probably preferable to fielding calls from Gallup in the middle of dinner. No, the online polls are not indicative of popular opinion. But unlike Gallup's, they're indicative of your opinion, and, if you've got one, TIME Daily doesn't care who you are or what country you're from. Sophisticates and barbarians alike...
...direct and personal appeal...I decided to grant his request." The irony is that while the Pope's argument that "the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil" may have swayed Carnahan, if only temporarily, Gallup polls find 53% of the Catholic American flock rejecting the position. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 86% of those responding declared they found it "possible to disagree with the Pope on articles of faith and still be a good Catholic." Such cafeteria Catholicism may not track logically...