The LGBT ideology is becoming more and more aggressive every year. If it was once mainly present in American schools, it has now found its way into European schools as well. And Slovenian schools are, of course, no exception. In the official Catalogue of Continued Education and Training for Professionals in Education for the School Year 2021/2022, prepared by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, you can also find a lecture by the LGBT activist organisation Legebitra, on “LGBT basics, with emphasis on transgenderism.” However, the majority of Slovenians are clearly not in favour of all of this. Namely, 61.7 percent of the respondents said that they have a negative opinion on the inclusion of content about homosexual people and the promotion of homosexual and transsexual content in Slovenian schools, as revealed in a recent public opinion poll prepared for Nova24TV by the Parsifal Agency.
The results of the public opinion poll, conducted by the Parsifal Agency between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September, show that the majority (44.7 percent) of respondents believe that the inclusion of homosexual content and the promotion of homosexual and transsexual content in Slovenian schools is unnecessary, while 32.0 percent of respondents believe it is necessary. Given that 17.0 percent of respondents believe that this could even be harmful, we can conclude that as many as 61.7 percent of respondents have a “negative” opinion when it comes to the idea of including this content in schools.
Men are more reluctant to include LGBT content in schools
If we look at the cross-section between the content variable and the demographic variables, we can see that among the people who believe that the inclusion of content related to homosexual people and the promotion of homosexual and transsexual content in Slovenian schools is unnecessary, men predominate. Among those who believe that this practice is harmful, it is also men who predominate. LGBT ideologies in schools are most favoured between the ages of 18 and 34, while those in the 35 to 54 age group are not in favour of the idea. Most of those who consider this a harmful practice belong to the age group of 55 years and over. Those who are most in favour of the LGBT ideology being presented in schools have high education or higher, while those who are against the idea mostly have a vocational education.
Most do not support the adoption of children for same-sex couples
As LGBT members are also in favour of the possibility of allowing same-sex couples to adopt a foreign child, this question was also included in the survey. The majority of the respondents (53.2 percent) said that they do not support the idea of same-sex couples being able to adopt a foreign child, while 40.7 percent of the respondents support it.
The cross-sections between the demographic and content variables reveal that among those who are more in favour of the possibility that same-sex couples could also adopt a foreign child, women and those in the age group between 18 and 34 predominate. Those who are least in favour of this are from the oldest age group (55 years and older), followed by the age group between 35 and 54 years. When looking at their education, we can see that those with high education or higher are most in favour of such adoptions, followed by respondents with secondary education.
The survey, which was conducted between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September, included 719 respondents, of which 50 percent were women, and 50 percent were men. The average age of the participants is 52.3 years, and the standard deviation is 16.6 years. The majority of the respondents are from the oldest age group (44.2 percent), a slightly smaller number of participants belong to the middle age group (37.4 percent), and the smallest number of respondents is from the youngest age group (18.4 percent).
The majority of the respondents have completed high school (32.1 percent), followed by those with completed high education or higher (26.8 percent), 22.2 percent of respondents have finished vocational school, and 18.9 percent have either only completed or have not completed primary school. The majority of the respondents currently reside in a small village or hamlet (53.2 percent), followed by those who live in the city (29.0 percent) or a smaller town (17.8 percent). Most of the respondents are from the central region (24.2 percent), followed by Podravska (15.8 percent) and Savinjska region (12.4 percent).
Nina Žoher
