{"id":845,"date":"2012-12-08T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=845"},"modified":"2012-12-08T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:33:22","slug":"shocking-not-religion-is-biggest-source-of-injustice-against-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/12\/08\/shocking-not-religion-is-biggest-source-of-injustice-against-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking (NOT): Religion is biggest source of injustice against gays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This seems to be too obvious to need confirmation. Nonetheless, it is nice to be data. What is the most common reason<\/a> people who oppose marriage equality for gays give for their opposition?<\/p>\n

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Mind you, the 47% is the tip of the iceberg. Not infrequently, those who get their homophobia from religion lie<\/a> about their true motives, such that it wins support from more people. (To be fair, some of those who support same sex marriage also name God\/religion as the reason, but only 5%).<\/p>\n

And here is more evidence of religion causing homophobia: guess how support with marriage equality is related to church attendance, and to age groups and political affiliation.<\/p>\n

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These findings are corroborated by another recent study<\/a>, on regional distribution of support for equality. Not surprisingly, that is far from homogenous.<\/p>\n

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And hence, regionally, support for equality seems match religiosity inversely<\/a>, rather neatly:<\/p>\n

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Lastly, check this out to see why religion literally causes backwardness: when it comes to equality for gays, the most religious part of the country trails the rest of the nation by 10 years.<\/p>\n

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It really should not come as a surprise that atheists and agnostics are the most progressive<\/a> on this issue, with 90% support for equal rights for gays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This seems to be too obvious to need confirmation. Nonetheless, it is nice to be data. What is the most…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}