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Poll Results

By / 2 May 2007

The results for the section 59 poll are pretty much as follows:
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For repeal, about 220
Against repeal, about 280
“Don’t know’s” etc were not statistically relevant (which isn’t the same as not being relevant, but they were very small in comparison)

Some people have asked why the poll was taken offline. Unfortunately, the poll was abused by a few people last night, who worked out how to vote multiple times from the same address. Online polls are fairly unscientific at the best of the time (I am surprised that the vote against repeal wasn’t a lot higher) but when the poll is being skewed deliberately, there’s little point going on. We installed a new version of the poll software which is less open to abuse, but unfortunately the website designer had to delete the old data to do this. Therefore, the poll was lost. If you have a screen capture or something and you want to upload it, that would be great.

According to wider polls, the Anglican Church’s voice in all of this has been to speak against the approximate 80% of the population who didn’t want repeal.

What do you think of that?
Does the church need to take a lead about such matters from time to time?
Does our faith require us to speak against public opinion sometimes? (I happen to think it does).
How can Destiny hold such a different view to the mainstream church?
Should we smack our kids?

If you have any thoughts, why not share them here – I’ve had plenty of abusive email sent to me over this, but I think it would be better for everyone to hear each others thoughts.

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