Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr are signifintly ls relig than other Amerins, a difference that is evint relig service attendance, importance of relign, and relig intifitn.
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
* gay y religion *
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.
SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
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. 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.
QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
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%).
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
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.
RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS
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. 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.