(CNN) Second lady Karen Pence has taken a job as an art teacher at a Christian school in Northern Virginia that bans gay students, parents, and employees.

The policy places the school on the other side of US public opinion; recent polling on the issue suggests most people don't see the homosexuality as immoral or even as an issue of morality.

According to a Gallup poll from May 2018, two-thirds of Americans said gay or lesbian relationships are morally acceptable and only 30% said they are morally wrong. This was the highest number to say gay or lesbian relationships are morally acceptable since Gallup began tracking the question in 2001.

In 2001, only 40% thought LGBT relationships were fine, but the majority flipped by 2010 and hasn't gone under half since then. In fact, gay or lesbian relationships were one of the more morally accepted practices in 2018, behind birth control (91% morally acceptable), drinking alcohol (78%), divorce (76%), sex between an unmarried man and woman (69%), and gambling (69%).

"I am excited to be back in the classroom and doing what I love to do, which is to teach art to elementary students," Pence said in a statement defending her choice.

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