Large majorities of Americans also recognize that water is wet:
Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found.
More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative, and about the same number say those messages contribute “a lot” to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.
Catholics were the most critical of their own churches’ messages on homosexuality, while white evangelical Christians gave their churches the highest grades, the survey found.
The Public Religion Research Institute asked 1,017 Americans their views on religion and homosexuality between October 14 and 17, in the wake of a highly publicized rash of suicides by gay people.
Gay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message “totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.”
Duh.
[h/t Joe]
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Interesting survey. I thought black evangelicals would be as supportive of the anti-gay religious message as white evangelicals were. The votes in Prop 8 surely suggest this.
If you have information on this, it would be useful to see it posted.
Also, in a earlier post you wondered whether you should post something about Perkins and LaBaaBaa: I suggest you don’t. I know they hate us. I know they would pass laws to kill us. I’d rather see posts about what we can do to further our equality.
It seems to me that unless La BaaBaa and company are plotting something we can do something about, then keep them off the posts. I know their positions and THEY WON’T CHANGE.
Just some thoughts.
Love your blog,
Rem