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Research Methodology Method Survey and interview are used for this research to investigate the perception of ADP students in legalizing homosexuality. By surveys, information of a large sample of people can be obtained quickly and efficiently. Interview is an efficient way to get a large in depth and qualitative information. Sample 60 students will be chosen randomly to do the survey and 15 students will be interviewed. They must be the students of American Degree Program, either male or female, aged 17 to 21 years old and literate (able to read English). The reason we survey 60 participants is to get information of a large sample to decrease the errors and bias. We decided to interview 15 students are to get detail information that allows greater understanding. Instruments description The questionnaire included 13 close ended questions. There are four sections in the survey. The first section is based on the understanding of participants on homosexuality which are question 1 to 3. The second section is based on the opinions of participants on homosexuality which is question 4, 5, 9, 10, and 13. In the second section, their opinion on homosexual life style, health issues, sexual orientation and their feeling towards homosexual are being asked. The third section is based on the opinion of participants in legalizing homosexuality which are question 6, 7, 8, and 12. This section meant to investigate their opinion in legalizing homosexuality and effects if homosexuality is being legalized. The fourth section is based on the religion of participants which is question 11. The interview included 7 open ended questions. There are three sections in this interview. The first section discusses about the opinion of participants on homosexuality which are question 2, 3, 6, and 7. In this section, questions about how the participants feel towards homosexual, why they are homosexual, who affected their thoughts towards homosexual and their opinion about the relationship of AIDS and homosexual are being asked. The second section asks about the opinion of participants in legalizing homosexuality which is question 1 and 5. This section is designed to investigate ADP students’ opinion in legalizing homosexuality in Malaysia and the effects if homosexuality is being legalized in our country. The third section is about the perception of heir religion on homosexuality which is mention in question 4. The participants are asked to explain their religion’s opinion about homosexuality in this section.