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RELIGN, SECULARISM, AND GAY MARRIAGE
Opponents of gay marriage are, for the most part, uniformly relig. Those men and women who fight agast gay and lbian rights – whether be to adopt children, to be protected om discrimatn hog or employment, to fight the ary, to volunteer as Sut lears, to get married, or to simply be served a piece of pie a rtrant – do so, large part, as a rult of their relign. Mormonism, Catholicism, Evangelil Prottantism, Orthodox Judaism, Islam, and other major relig tradns are among the most abundant wellsprgs of today’s ntemporary anti-homosexual agenda.
And the nant fact is that there exists no secular anti-homosexual movement. Sure, dividual men and women who happen to be secular n be homophobic to varyg gre, and yet terms of polil mobilizatn, social movement activy, and anized public outcry, there is no secular mobilizatn opposg equal right for gays and lbians.
At the dividual level, strong religsy rrelat highly wh opposn to gay marriage, while beg secular strongly rrelat wh support for gay marriage. For example, a 2012 Pew Fom report found that 74% of whe Evangelil Christians opposed gay marriage, but only 20% of non-relig Amerin opposed . When to their strong opposn to gay marriage, what a lot of nservative Christians will say -- jtifyg their anti-homosexual agenda -- is that marriag between two men or two women aren’t “Biblil.