Stats on Gay Marriage & Religious Belief

snare&racket

So just how non-judgmental, tolerant, respectful, caring, loving, liberal and humane are the religious groups?

"Findings from PRRI’s American Values Atlas, which draws on 40,000 interviews among a random sample of Americans, provides the most in-depth portrait to date of attitudes on same-sex marriage by religious affiliation.

The most supportive major religious groups are Buddhists (84 percent), Jews (77 percent), and Americans who select “Other religion” (75 percent); additionally, more than three-quarters (77 percent) of the religiously unaffiliated also support same-sex marriage.

More than six in ten (62 percent) white mainline Protestants support same-sex marriage. Among white mainline Protestant denominations, support ranges from 69 percent support among white mainline Presbyterians and 68 percent among both white Episcopalians and white Congregationalists/United Church of Christ members, to lower support among white mainline Baptists (53 percent) and white mainline Church of Christ/Disciples (50 percent).

And while the Catholic Church officially opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage, about six in ten white (61 percent), Hispanic (60 percent), and other non-white Catholics (60 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. A majority of orthodox Christians (56 percent) also support same-sex marriage.

On the other side of the debate, majorities of Jehovah’s Witnesses (75 percent), Mormons (68 percent), white evangelical Protestants (66 percent), Hispanic Protestants (58 percent), and black Protestants (54 percent) oppose allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. Among white evangelical Protestant denominations, white evangelical Baptists are the most opposed (72 percent), while white evangelical Lutherans are nearly evenly divided (45 percent favor, 48 percent opposed)."

http://publicreligion.org/2015/04/attitudes-on-same-sex-marriage-by-religious-affiliation-and-denominational-family/

I was so ashamed when the JW's came bottom of the worlds religious denomination tables for education and household income, but this is just Bronze Age embarrassing.

The youth and liberals in the JW's (25%) have done well to say they support it, but it is no surprise that the worlds most draconian belief system is falling further and further behind.

Hopefully this will prove eye opening for the more humane and less ignorant JW's........

kaik

I seen similar study from European Union, where JWs were at the bottom of same-sex marriage support and far more disapproving than Islam. Last three censuses conducted in the Czech Republic and Slovakia showed that JW have the lowest educational achievement and lowest income from all examined religious groups. Jews had the highest income and highest educational achievement followed by Protestants (Bohemian Brethren), while Catholics fall somewhere in the middle.

jws

I am surprised as many as 25% agree with it. They tend to be so lock-step in their beliefs. They are all officially against it. If a large number like 25% supports it, they don't follow the religion and think like they want you to. That's good.

On the other hand, that there were any will be a black eye at headquarters and they will no doubt double efforts to tell them it's wrong.

ctrwtf

One more reason the JW's should be classified as a hate group.

blondie

The WTS is in the dark ages based on Tony Morris' video saying that pedophiles are homosexuals preying on boys (doesn't he know that more females are molested than boys, by male pedophiles)

Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that approximately 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before the age of 18. 1

http://www.nsopw.gov/en/Education/FactsStatistics?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#victims

DJS

Snare,

Not surprising, is it. The 25% of the Dubs who were OK with gay marriage could have done so based on marriage being a state/constitutional issue rather than a moral one. When I was a dub I would have been ok with gay marriage even when I was the truest of true believers based on church/state separation.

The Dubs are likely proud that they are at the bottom (top?) on this issue; it is the perfect spin for the Dark Lords to reinforce that they are special, god's select, all washed and dressed in white outer garments while the rest of the world slides into Satan's immoral abyss. Now I'm nauseous.

sir82

Meanwhile, ToMoIII is desperately trying to figure out how to identify that 25%, so he can send in special Bethel hit squads to disfellowship them.