Despite liberals’ best efforts to demonize Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of his signature achievements seems to be getting stronger.
On Twitter on Sunday, Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, a school choice advocacy group, noted the perhaps surprising results of a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
He offered a screenshot of a question in the poll: “Do you support or oppose allowing public school teachers to provide classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in elementary school?”
The answer was that 70 percent opposed, compared to just 27 percent who supported the idea.
Among opponents, 58 percent said they “strongly” oppose such instruction, while another 12 percent were “somewhat” opposed.
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On the other hand, just 13 present strongly support this school teaching children sexual orientation and gender identity.
According to the results reported by the Times/Siena poll, the ratio of people who reject that notion has actually increased since Gov. DeSantis, a Republican, signed the Parental Rights in Education law in Florida.
The law bans school districts and classroom teachers from offering lesson plans to kids in grades K-3 that include instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity.
As The Free Press reported earlier this year, three polls taken back in the spring found that among all voters support for the Florida law ranged between 52 percent and 67 percent.
Even among Democrats, support for the language of Florida’s law in those polls ranged between 52 percent and 62 percent.
That seems to have changed in the Times/Siena poll.
DeAngelis’ Twitter post included a summary among registered voters.
While 96 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of independents oppose mandated LGBT instruction in schools, only 42 percent of Democrats did.
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