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BY JASON LE MIERE at Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/muslim-white-evangelical-gay-marriage-907627
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Opposition to same-sex marriage has decreased across a broad swath of religious groups in the United States, with white evangelical Christians one of the few movements for which a majority remains in opposition. Three years on from the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the findings from the Public Religion Research Institutes 2017 American Values Atlas, published Tuesday, showed growing support for LGBT rights, including a majority of U.S. Muslims backing same-sex marriage for the first time.
Muslims, by a margin of 51 percent to 34 percent, favor same-sex marriage, compared to just four years ago when a majority, 51 percent, were opposed. There were similar results for black Protestants, with 54 percent opposing gay marriage in PRRIs 2014 American Values Atlas, compared with 43 percent in the latest findings.
Indeed, opposition to same-sex marriage is now limited almost entirely to white conservative Christians. Fifty-eight percent of white evangelical Christians and 53 percent of Mormonsan overwhelming majority of whom are whiteare opposed to allowing gay couples to marry. The group with the most opposition, though, is Jehovahs Witnesses, a group which is 36 percent white, 32 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black in the U.S. Just 13 percent support the law.
As a whole, 63 percent of Americans now back allowing same-sex couples to marry, up from 52 percent four years ago. All major racial groups now have a majority in favor. Republicans, though, remain opposed, 51 percent to 42 percent.
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Just a personal preference, even if the original is all caps, it is a distraction, imo.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)thanks for the INFO
JI7
(89,248 posts)Sadly, only one group is called upon to examine their privilege, the other groups usually get a pass.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)These Muslim precinct chairs are all in favor of reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)I have been watching trends in the US in regards to religion and GLBT issues (many are still really bad with the "T" including the GLB ones), and overall, there is a trend, glacial as it is, to move toward acceptance or marriage equality and equality for GLBT people.
Good for them!
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JCanete
(5,272 posts)know a live and let live culture is gaining traction.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)Looks like white Christians are now more closely aligned with the terrorists that US Muslims are (not that they ever really were in the first place).