TORONTO, December 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A flurry of emails has been making the rounds throughout Canada the past few days about a supposed CTV television network telephone call-in poll on same-sex marriage. It appears that thousands of people may have called into the promoted number only to have voted NO to banning pit bulls, not same-sex marriage.
Even LifeSiteNews.com added the item to its NewsBytes section after receiving numerous emails from supporters advocating promotion of the poll which has turned out to be a December April Fool’s joke. An alert LifeSiteNews.com reader in Nova Scotia, wanting to find out how the poll was going, contacted CTV and was told that they were not conducting any such poll.
Further investigation by the LifeSiteNews.com reader revealed that the number being circulated was listed in a message on a site devoted to pit bulls which directed that calling the number indicated opposition to a ban on pit bulls. See the site and the message titled “New Discussion: CP24 Poll: Do you support” about two-thirds of the way down the page at http://apbt.meetup.com/49/ sj