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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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Adoption agencies could refuse to place children in homes based on religious or moral beliefs, according to a bill that will be considered by the state House this week.<br />
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The bill has been touted as supporting </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">religious freedom</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of adoption agencies by allowing child placing agencies to refuse to assist, counsel, recommend or facilitate an adoption </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">that violates its written religious or moral convictions or policies,</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> according to an analysis of the bill.<br />
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The bill would prohibit the state from refusing to provide taxpayer funds or grants to those agencies that choose to not participate in adoptions on those grounds.<br />
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The ACLU and Equality Michigan, who advocate for the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender communities, say the proposed law is written so broadly that it would allow for state sanctioned discrimination on the basis of just about anything.<br />
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The ACLU stated that, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">We don&rsquo;t argue that faith based agencies have their own rules, but they shouldn&rsquo;t be able to discriminate if they receive state money.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span><br />
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For an article on proposed legislation regarding this issue click on the following story link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20130911/NEWS04/309110004/House-bill-would-allow-adoption-agencies-refuse-place-children-based-religious-moral-beliefs">http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20130911/NEWS04/309110004/House-bill-would-allow-adoption-agencies-refuse-place-children-based-religious-moral-beliefs</a><br />
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Should adoption agencies be able&nbsp; to refuse to place children in homes based on their religious or moral beliefs?<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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At MSU what should be the result of what is acceptable in college courses that are not related to political content?<br />
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70% - Universities should hold all professors/instructors accountable for their biased teaching up to and including dismissal<br />
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14% - Professors/Instructors should present all material in an unbiased and fair manner and represent all sides of an issue<br />
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11% - Professors/Instructors should limited to the relevant materials need to teach their class<br />
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5% - Professors/Instructors should be free to use any content to teach any class<br />
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0% - Undecided<br />
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ONE COMMENT WAS MADE ON THIS POLL.<br />
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COMMENT #1<br />
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Consequences for biased teaching AND BEHAVIOR IN ANY COURSE<br />
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I have a problem with the question as currently stated. Universities should hold all professors/instructors accountable for their biased teaching AND BEHAVIOR in ANY college course including a course that IS related to political content and/or when the bias involves political matters, beliefs, political parties, associations, religion, ethnicity, any demographic characteristic, bullying, intimidation, etc in ANY course. Political content is precisely one of the most likely areas in which wacko profs/instructors go off with their bias, bullying and false information and it may or may not be related to the course.<br />
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The Prof who recently went on a rant at MSU to bully and intimidate students to his way way of thinking about Republicans and Conservatives, etc and political issues that he falsely claimed about them did so in a Creative Writing class. He not only intimidated conservative students to realize they were not academically free to state their conservative views orally or in writing in this Creative Writing class, but he also spewed false information about Republicans which could cause those students to question or change their beliefs. Similarly, the rant, false information and hate speech about Republicans and Conservatives impacts how the liberal students and non-political students think and act about Republicans and Conservatives including their fellow students.<br />
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