MILAN (AP) — Gay rights activists on Tuday nounced as homophobic mov by Italian Premier Grgia Meloni’s far-right-led ernment to lim regnn of parental rights to the blogil parent only fai wh same-sex parents.
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GAY THE AMERIS
Dozens of studi about kids raised by gay parents were mischaracterized for polil reasons so as not to draw the ire of homosexual activists or enurage anti-gay rhetoric, a new report suggts. * politics of gay parents *
Specifilly, the rights of gays, a group that has been the target of hostily for centuri around the world, cludg well-tablished mocraci. Gay rights are pecially problematic much of Lat Ameri. It is often assumed that this is bee of the persistence of the culture of machismo, but another factor acuntg for tolerance for the right of gay people is the overall low level of tn Lat Ameri and the Caribbean pared to North Ameri.
We foc here on the acceptance of homosexuals’ rights to participate as ndidat electns. The wordg of the qutn is: “How strongly do you approve or disapprove of homosexuals beg permted to n for public office? ” Table 1 (available the prt issue) shows the percentage of people exhibg high tolerance towards homosexuals’ rights to participate polics 23 untri the Ameris.
The untry wh the hight percentage of highly tolerant people is Canada, where about three-fourths of the populatn exprs high tolerance toward the rights of gays to participate polics. However, ls than half the populatn all the other untri is highly tolerant of the polil rights of gays.
9 CONSERVATIVE POLICIANS WH GAY KIDS
About 45 percent of Brazilians display high levels of tolerance, while Costa Ri, Mexi, Colombia, Chile, Niragua, and Venezuela, those who exprs tolerance towards homosexuals reprent between 30 and 40 percent of the populatn.
This is what we fd most untri nsired here: pennt of their levels of wealth, genr, age, relig preferenc, and place of rince, people wh higher levels of tn are more likely to regnize and accept the polil rights of a mory such as homosexuals. More than half of all people wh universy tn show high levels of tolerance of the rights of homosexuals polics. In light of those expectatns, we nsult the AmerisBarometer database to ask: how do young people pare to the rt of the populatn terms of tolerance toward the rights of gays?
ITALIAN ERNMENT LIMS PARENTAL RIGHTS OF GAY UPL
We had hoped to fd universally higher acceptance of gays among the young; but, to our disappotment, this not what our rearch shows.
When we dig eper to the data we fd another factor that plays an important role helpg to terme tolerance toward gays among the young: relig preference.
Across the regn, and particularly among people unr 35 years of age, relig preference helps expla levels of tolerance for homosexuals’ polil rights to a signifint extent, even after rponnts’ level of tn is taken to acunt.