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CSS-NYS Note:This survey is significant because most respondants were likely to be non-gay.

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Erie Morning News, March 1, 2000
205 W. 12th Street, Erie, PA, 16534
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PRINCETON, N.J. Teens largely were aware that Cassie Bernall, a student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., professed her belief in God shortly before she was killed last April. And, her murder had an impact on teenagers' own religious faith.

This is a finding of the latest Gallup Youth Survey, in which we asked American teens, 13 to 17 years old, a number of questions about religious faith, including the connection between their own faith and Cassie's death. . .

In a special Gallup Youth survey on violence in America's high schools, conducted in the wake of the incident at Columbine High, nearly half of teens (46 percent) were aware of violent or potentially violent groups in their school.

Teens surveyed at that time were also aware that certain groups of teens could be targeted by violent gangs.

According to teens who reported having violent groups at their school, these groups are potentially most dangerous to gay students more than half of teens (58 percent) reported a potential danger for gay teens.

Findings from the fall, 1999 edition of the Gallup Youth Survey are based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 502 American teen-agers, ages 13 to 17. Interviews were conducted September through November, 1999.

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