Pope Francis lls for end to anti-gay laws and LGBTQ+ wele om church | Pope Francis | The Guardian

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• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• MORAL STANCE TOWARDS GAY OR LBIAN RELATNS THE UNED STAT 2022

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

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. 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. For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.

MORAL STANCE TOWARDS GAY OR LBIAN RELATNS THE UNED STAT 2022

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy. Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.

Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. A majory of churchgoers report hearg about homosexualy om their clergy: 55% of those who attend servic at least once or twice a month say their clergy talk about issu related to homosexualy, and 41% say they discs laws regardg homosexuals.

The vast majory of regular churchgoers who hear about homosexualy church say the msage is a negative rather than a ntral or posive one: overall, 76% say their clergy disurage homosexualy, while 4% say clergy favor acceptance of ; only 16% say their clergy take no posn when they speak about the issue. Asked why some people are homosexual, 42% say is “jt the way that some people prefer to live, ” pared wh 30% who thk homosexualy is somethg people are born wh and 14% who believe velops bee of the way people are brought up. In general, better-ted people are more likely than those wh ls tn to see homosexualy as nate and unchangeable rather than a liftyle choice, though even among llege graduat there is nsirable divisn of opn.

More than half of highly mted whe evangelils (53%) and 60% of black Prottants say that homosexualy is jt a way that some people prefer to live, and jt 14% say is somethg that people are born wh.

A 42% pluraly says that greater acceptance of gays would not make much difference, while 31% say would be bad for the untry; that is a most crease om a Kaiser Fay Foundatn survey 2000 (23%). Nearly half of the public (48%) exprs the view that the entertament media are cludg too many gay them and characters the days pared wh 40% who believe the media are providg the right amount of gay-themed ntent. And more highly ted people than those wh ls tn say they know or are related to someone who is gay: Nearly three-quarters of llege graduat (73%) say they have a iend or relative who is gay pared wh 52% of those wh a high school tn.

Disfort is greater among olr rponnts (29% of people age 65 and olr), those livg ral areas (29%), nservative Republins (30%), and highly mted whe evangelils (34% unfortable around gays and lbians). Dpe the fact that more Amerins have negative than posive views of gays and lbians, majori do not see homosexuals as ls happy than other people or ls likely to form stable, long-term relatnships.

People who have homosexual iends, fay members, or lleagu are more likely to exprs opns about the issu, and they generally view gays a more posive light pared wh those who do not have gay acquatanc and relativ. However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. No one n predict the future, but the Supreme Court — this very nservative Supreme Court — may have given Democrats a gift for moment the urt renred the fal three cisns of s term — on affirmative actn, stunt bt relief and relig rights over gay rights — my first thought was that not only helps Democrats, but also hurts Republins, at least the near, gave Democrats the opportuny to mpaign on three issu next year’s electn to galvanize voters much the way the Dobbs cisn overturng a natnal right to abortn rallied voters the 2022 three issu are central to the terts of three key mocratic votg blocs: mori, the LGBTQ muny and young people (who have nsistently been ls enthiastic about Print Joe Bin).

This year’s grantg of relig exemptns to people who oppose gay marriage, as well as undog affirmative actn and revokg stunt bt relief, may produce a siar only issue Republins seem to have now is their latt a long le of bogeymen: anti-“woke” culture wars. Pope Francis has cricised laws that crimalise homosexualy as “unjt”, sayg God lov all his children jt as they are, and llg on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ+ people to the church.

Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalise homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s”.

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg, while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human Tuday, Francis said there need to be a distctn between a crime and a s wh regard to homosexualy. But he has ma reachg out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his pope’s ments didn’t specifilly addrs transgenr or nonbary people, jt homosexualy, but advot of greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church hailed the pope’s ments as a momento advance.