As the headteacher ('straight' and 'religious') of a small Church of England school where inclusion is one of our core values, I believe it is my duty to promote sexuality equality for all. In my efforts to do this, I have met with no resistance from the local school or church communities . As parents and educators it must remain a key concern that our children grow up to be both understanding and respectful of difference. It is the way of love. The alternative is harsh judgement making which dehumanises and leads to bullying, division and conflict.

Sue East, Bath,

I've no doubt that the people questioned were mostly gays

S braule, Llanelli, Wales

Commissioned by Stonewall and you expected something different? Polls can be skewered to produce whatever the pollster wants to push as an agenda. Perhaps if the general public (rather than a select few chosen for a poll) were to be shown the statistics regarding the public physical and mental health disaster of homosexual practices (HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer, anal cancer, drug addiction, domestic physical abuse of partners, shorter life spans), the public at large would prove less illiberal in its viewpoint. No, that's not a typing error: supporting a concept or act which is inimical to the moral foundations of society and destructive of individual bodies is extremely illiberal. In this respect, common sense, as well as religious values, should have a voice. And the word 'discrimination' means discernment and judgement, not injustice, as misdefined by false 'liberals.'

always a voter, never a pollster, london,

Good news then that Canterbury at least is not deceived by today's cultural hedonism that is fostering this sexual free for all. Did this poll include the local imams by the way, or was multiculturalism, for once, ignored in order to get the liberals the 'right' answer?

Ib, Homerton, UK

As a Christian, I don't support discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, and I don't agree that orientation is, in itself, sinful. Violence towards homosexuals is utterly damnable. But I still believe that putting that orientation into practice is wrong. So where would I fall in this survey? That would rather depend on the precise wording of the questions; and even then, my answer would be open to mis-interpretation, given the general conflation of inclination and action. And therein lies the key problem with surveys, especially on subjects as ticklish as this.

Philip Walker, York, United Kingdom

This article fails to distinguish the crisp issue: religious people don't have an issue with not discriminating against gay people; what they do have an issue with is being forced to actively promote the gay lifestyle as equivalent to heterosexual marriage. If we express this, we are immediately labelled as "homophobic", or “heterosexist”. Such is the intolerant tolerance of this new "diversity": don’t dare express a contrary view, even if it is backed by the millennia-old religions. Religious people I know do not support the moral equivalence of gay unions with heterosexual marriage. I see the research was commissioned by Stonewall - a conflict of interest perhaps?

EC Todd, London,

And yet religious leaders don't agree. I think this highlights a problem with the government's reliance on 'interfaith' groups to produce and implement its social policies.
The leaders on these groups are mistakenly thought to represent 'their' groups. Clearly they don't.

Please, Gordon Brown, ignore Blair's interfaith Foundation and take a sensible look at the problems caused by the privileged status of religious groups in 21st century Britain.

Rob, Reading, UK

So more than 8 out of 10 religious people agreed with the moral acceptance of homosexuals.
Given that the poll was commissioned by Stonewall, one wonders what type of 'religious people' were interviewed. It certainly was not muslims, not catholics, and not evangelical Christians.
Homosexuals want equal rights, but what about people with a religious conscience?. If a hotel owner does not want same sex pairs to endulge in homosexual acts where would his 'equal rights' be?

Steve Martin, East Grinstead, West Sussex