U.S. Republicans, white Christians rank even behind Muslims in support for gay marriage

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 Institute’s 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 PRRI’s 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 Mormons—an overwhelming majority of whom are white—are opposed to allowing gay couples to marry. The group with the most opposition, though, is Jehovah’s 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.

eddie wrote:So....in a nutshell, Muslims are now becoming more relaxed about gay marriage whilst white Christians are still against it (while furiously using gay porn for masturbating purposes)?

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:So....in a nutshell, Muslims are now becoming more relaxed about gay marriage whilst white Christians are still against it (while furiously using gay porn for masturbating purposes)?

This is a bit old, but a survey said that the Deep South, where there are more Republican white Evangelical Christians, watch the most gay porn: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/according-to-pornhub-the-south-watches-more-gay-porn-than-an?utm_term=.borbjq22Rz#.qpmd6VNNem

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