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Contents:

• GAYS Y RELIGIóN
• SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS

GAYS Y RELIGIóN

En el libro/entrevista, el papa Francis expli su preocupación por el número sacerdot y religsos homosexual y sostiene “que su Iglia podría verse vadida por la ‘moda’ la homosexualidad” simple ia alarma. Preocupa que ntro la Iglia se nsire que e segmento la población pace la “enfermedad la homosexualidad”: “Cuando hay ndidatos n nrosis y sequilibrs fuert, difícil por enuzar ni n ayuda terapéuti, no hay que aceptarlos, ni al sacerdoc ni a la vida nsagrada… Tengamos en cuenta siempre que son personas que van a vivir al servic la Iglia, l pueblo Ds… La cutión la homosexualidad muy seria. En nutras sociedas parece clo que la homosexualidad tá moda y a mentalidad, alguna manera, también fluye en la vida la Iglia” homosexualidad ni moda ni enfermedad.

Excluirlos y tigmatizarlos s la religión pue crementar la agrión ntra ellos: “Para evar la entrada los homosexual en la vida nsagrada, expli el entrevistador, Francis pi a los rponsabl los semars y noviciados que mantengan ‘los ojos abiertos’ y ‘tecten ndidatos’ que podrían sarrollar ‘más tar as tenncias’”, una pecie, pienso, clero policial, cuya función ignoro cómo se cumplirá, pero prag s nsecuencias existen ni exámen médis, ni genétis, ni psiquiátris, ni soclógis pac tablecer el diagnósti homosexualidad. Los dos extremos, equivor o no “el diagnósti homosexualidad” nlleva peligros: ¿Qué sucerá cuando equivoquen su diagnósti y qué sucerá n los ndidatos cuando los entrevistador “scubran” a un homosexual cuya meta era entregarse a Ds y ntribuir n la religión?

Han transcurrido 28 años s que la Organización Mundial la Salud retiró la homosexualidad su lista enfermedas mental, basada en la elimación la homosexualidad l Manual diagnósti los trastornos mental la Asociación Amerina Psiquiatría. 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.

SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

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. Though the vast majory of Amerins say they know gays or lbians, jt over a quarter (28%) say they know “a lot” of people who are gay or lbian, while 43% say they know some and 17% say they only know one or two gays or lbians. While large majori of almost all mographic and partisan groups say they know someone who is gay or lbian, there are differenc both the number of gay and lbian acquatanc people have and whether people say they have close fay members or iends who are gay.

Millennials are among the most likely of any mographic or partisan group to say they know a lot of people who are gay or lbian: Nearly four--ten (38%) say so, pared wh fewer Gen Xers (28%), Boomers (22%) and Silents (15%).

There are also divis by muny type: People who live urban areas (32%) are more likely to know a lot of people who are gay and lbian than those who live suburban (27%) or ral (20%) muni.

QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?

About three-quarters (73%) of those who know a lot of gays and lbians – and two-thirds (66%) of those who have gay or lbian close iends or fay members – say they support same-sex marriage. And nearly half (48%) of Amerins wh many gay acquatanc, and 38% of those who have close iends or fay who are gay, strongly favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

There is far ls support for same-sex marriage among those wh few or no gay or lbian acquatanc, as well as among those who do not have close iends or fay members who are gay or lbian. Conflict between relig beliefs and homosexualy is felt particularly strongly by whe evangelil Prottants, about seven--ten (72%) of whom say there is a nflict, cludg 64% who say there is “a lot” of nflict. Six--ten black Prottants say there is eher a lot (48%) or a ltle (12%) nflict between their relig beliefs and homosexualy, while 53% of Catholics feel that their relig beliefs and homosexualy are some nflict (38% say there is a lot of nflict).

When asked about possible reasons why people are gay or lbian, 47% say people are born gay or lbian, while slightly fewer (40%) say ’s jt the way some people choose to live; relatively few (7%) say beg gay or lbian is a rult of a person’s upbrgg.

College graduat are far more likely than those wh ls tn to say that people are born gay or lbian: 61% of llege graduat say this, pared wh 46% of those wh some llege experience and 39% of those wh no llege experience. Comparable percentag of Democrats (55%) and pennts (53%) say people are born gay or lbian; about four--ten each group say ’s jt the way some people choose to live (37% of Democrats, 35% of pennts).

RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS

By ntrast, about as many Republins say a gay or lbian person’s sexual orientatn n be changed (45%) as say nnot be changed (47%); views among Republins are ltle changed sce 2012. Adults wh no relig affiliatn are among the most likely to say that a gay person’s sexual orientatn nnot be changed: 79% exprs this view, while jt 18% say homosexualy n be changed. Most Amerins (57%) say they would not be upset if they had a child who told them he or she was gay or lbian; 39% say they would be upset about this, cludg 17% who say they would be very upset.

By 2000, the share sayg they would be upset about havg a gay child had fallen to 73%, and by 2013 jt 40% said they would be upset if a child of theirs said he or she was gay. However, generatnal differenc reactns to the prospect of a gay child are much wir than opns about whether or not a gay person is born that way, or whether a gay person’s sexual orientatn n be changed. Younger generatns are more acceptg of homosexualy society: 78% of Millennials, 65% of Gen Xers and 55% of Boomers say homosexualy should be accepted, while Silents are spl (45% accepted, 42% disuraged).

Includ are web rourc for gay people g together as mory groups wh relig tradns, lks to relig activist groups for and agast homosexual rights, rourc beg created by gay people alg wh their relign and their homosexualy, and rourc beg created by relig activists who oppose homosexualy. The Wikipedia article "Homosexualy and Baha'i Fah" giv an overview of the posn of the Baha'i fah towards homosexualy and also lists referenc and external lks to several statements published by the Universal Hoe of Jtice, the lg body for the Baha'i fah.