Posted on 03/06/2014 12:01:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's an oft-repeated message that religion and LGBT bashing go together like santorum and anal sex, but a new survey finds that is not the case, after all.
According to a new national survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), titled "A Decade of Change in American Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Issues," not only have attitudes changed drastically in favor of pro-LGBT rights, but religious bias has also been overstated.
The religiously unaffiliated, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly support teh gheyz (73 percent), but so do majorities of Jewish Americans (83 percent), white mainline Protestants (62 percent), white Catholics (58 percent) and even Hispanic Catholics (56 percent) currently support same-sex marriage.
While a (sometimes slim) majority of religious folks tend to support LGBT issues, regular churchgoers (those who attend at least once or twice a month), still think that they are in the minority, and that their church takes the opposite viewpoint on things like same-sex marriage. From the findings:
About 6-in-10 (59 percent) white mainline Protestants believe their fellow congregants are mostly opposed to same-sex marriage. However, among white mainline Protestants who attend church regularly, only 36 percent oppose allowing gay and lesbian people to legally marry while a majority (57 percent) actually favor this policy. Roughly three-quarters (73 percent) of Catholics believe that most of their fellow congregants are opposed to same-sex marriage. However, Catholics who regularly attend church are in fact divided on the issue (50 percent favor, 45 percent oppose). Contributing to the misconception that religion takes an anti-gay stance is the mainstream media, which, you've probably noticed, tends to favor evangelical talking heads who think Girl Scout cookies turn people into lesbian witches, among other ridiculous rhetoric. The media ignores more moderate religious viewpoints, pro-LGBT people of faith, and even atheists, who represent 16 percent of Americans, but get less than 1 percent of air time, according to a study by GLAAD and the University of Missouri Center on Religion & the Professions.
This kind of fabricated "religion vs gays" polarizing is having a negative effect, says PRRI CEO Dr. Robert P. Jones. Particularly on the younger generations.
"Nearly one-third of Millennials who left their childhood religion say unfavorable church teachings about or treatment of gay and lesbian people played a significant role in their decision to head for the exit."
Almost 33 percent! That's a pretty staggering number when one considers all the other reasons a millennial might stop going to church, such as hypocrisy, political grandstanding, and, lesbihonest, that it interferes too much with Sunday brunch plans.
Duh.
Stopped reading right after that filth.
Reverse the survey and use a lie detector.
How many Gays hate religious people?
The media is the DNC liebratory.
I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t use to hate gays. However, the actions and demands of the gays lately - like in using the courts to force Christians to provide services for gay weddings - are starting to make me question my original feelings.
Filth? That’s modernity staring you in the face.
But most gays hate religious people.
Stopped reading right after that filth.
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Aww come on. keep reading.
Here’s more WTFisms...
Almost 33 percent! That’s a pretty staggering number when one considers all the other reasons a millennial might stop going to church, such as hypocrisy, political grandstanding, and, lesbihonest, that it interferes too much with Sunday brunch plans.
Yes, we don’t hate gays we hate the practice of forbidden homosexuality. God forbade it.
They have to have an enemy in order to protest their ‘persecution’, for without an enemy their is no need for protests...........
I have some LGBT friends and I don’t give a rat’s patoot what their personal preferences are. When they’re working with me I expect them to do their job like anyone else and leave their personal preferences to themselves. We have no problems.
I’m with you! SO very tired of this vocal, obnoxious, over-sexed, child-seducing MINORITY (that everyone seems TERRIFIED of - even grown MEN!) stomping all over MY rights as a boring, white, hetero, conservative, middle-aged, gun-totin’, Bible-clinging, Veteran, Mom.
Did I hit all the high points? Who is more in the MINORITY these days? I sure feel like I am!
Makes me want to smack ‘em. I know I could take these Nancy-boys too, LOL!
That is not the case at all. True biblical Christians oppose the same things God opposes...but certainly do not "hate."
You can hate sin and know the damage it will cause (both temporal and eternal) but not hate the sinner.
You want to hear modernity? I found out there is a company that sells nail polish for men (read: queers), and one of their colors is “santorum.”
For some reason, homosexuals mistake people who find them disgusting as haters.
Or at least pretend to make that mistake.
Wow, talk about getting things COMPLETELY reversed. Would she like to talk about the life expectancy of homosexuals, I wonder?
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