AFA Abandons “subverted” online marriage poll!
[I saw the LiveJournal postings the next day… it was totally bleeping rad. The result is totally hilarious… and now theylve decided to chicken out on actually submitting the results to congress, so the whole thing was a big waste of time for them. Ha, I say. Ha! -Thomas]
Gay Marriage Poll Gets Annulled
By Daniel Terdiman | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
02:00 AM Jan. 22, 2004 PT
When the American Family Association posted an online poll last month asking its constituents their position on gay marriage, it thought it was engaging in a straightforward exercise.
The conservative organization supports a constitutional amendment defining marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, and it planned to forward to Congress the results of the poll, which it expected would support its position, as evidence of Americans’ opposition to gay marriage.
But the AFA never counted on the power of the Internet. And once the URL to the poll escaped its intended audience, everything went haywire. As of Jan. 19, 60 percent of respondents — more than 508,000 voters — said, “I favor legalization of homosexual marriage.” With an additional 7.89 percent — or 66,732 voters — replying, “I favor a ‘civil union’ with the full benefits of marriage except for the name,” the AFA’s chosen position, “I oppose legalization of homosexual marriage and ‘civil unions,’” was being defeated by a 2-1 ratio.
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