Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 6:32 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Seventy percent of Americans oppose letting educators indoctrinate children into LGBT dogma, according to a new poll.
On September 16, The New York Times published the September poll it conducted with Siena College covering a range of issues.
To the question, “Do you support or oppose allowing public school teachers to provide classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in elementary school,” 70% percent answered “oppose” with just 27% supporting it. Notably, even a majority of Democrats (53%) said they opposed it as well.
The findings indicate that the problem of taxpayer-subsidized teachers proselytizing to captive, impressionable audiences about controversial values remains a potent issue for conservative candidates to seize upon, as first demonstrated last year when Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin ousted Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.
Youngkin defeated McAuliffe last November in part by riding a wave of discontent with leftist radicalism on race and sexual matters in public schools, and upon taking office set to work addressing that discontent.
On Youngkin’s first day, he issued a series of executive actions, including a ban on the promotion of critical race theory (CRT)
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