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• LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR

In most of the 18 untri analyzed, religly unaffiliated adults were more likely to say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. ”Even straight Amerins have ced their church’s treatment of the gay muny as part of the reason they’ve left, she add.

Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall. “There’s been progrs, but I al wh people all the time om liberal relig fai who have faced horrible bigotry and rejectn, ” she, she add, the hunger for spirualy is ep among gay people — perhaps even eper than among the larger populatn. 5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Bisexual and lbian or gay adults are ls likely than straight adults to say they attend relig servic weekly, a 2014 survey found. Lbian, gay and bisexual Amerins are by some measur ls relig than heterosexual or straight adults, acrdg to a new analysis of data om Pew Rearch Center’s 2014 Relig Landspe Study. For starters, gay, lbian and bisexual adults are substantially ls likely than straight adults to affiliate wh a relig group.

(The survey asked rponnts whether they intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or straight but did not ask about other inti related to genr and sexualy.

About two--ten bisexuals (19%) and 16% of lbian and gay Amerins say they attend relig servic weekly.

LGB Amerins – who make up 5% of rponnts the survey – also are much ls likely to say that scripture is the word of God, wh 38% of bisexuals and 33% of gays and lbians sayg this. Likewise, while about a third of gays, lbians and bisexuals (34%) say that relign is very important their liv, more than half of straight Amerins say this (54%). Roughly half of gay and lbian adults (51%) and bisexuals (53%) say this, pared wh 45% of straight Amerins.

This analysis foc on whether people around the world thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society or not. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. As was 2013, when the qutn was last asked, attus on the acceptance of homosexualy are shaped by the untry which people live.

Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai. In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. Many of the untri surveyed 2002 and 2019 have seen a double-dig crease acceptance of homosexualy.

There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan. In both untri, jt over half said they accepted homosexualy 2002, but now closer to seven--ten say this.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). And supporters of several right-wg populist parti Europe are also ls likely to see homosexualy as acceptable.