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Pew poll:Polls this year have found that more Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally than did so just last year. In two polls conducted over the past few months, based on interviews with more than 6,000 adults, 42% favor same-sex marriage while 48% are opposed. In polls conducted in 2009, 37% favored allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally and 54% were opposed. For the first time in 15 years of Pew Research Center polling, fewer than half oppose same-sex marriage.
The shift in opinion on same-sex marriage has been broad-based, occurring across many demographic, political and religious groups...
There's a lot of progress, although disappointingly slow in the African American community. As expected, Democrats are more in favor, and high degrees of education also correlate with support. And religion? Those hate filled Catholic bishops are having problems keeping the flock in line....
About half (49%) of white mainline Protestants support same-sex marriage while 38% oppose this. This is a reversal of opinion from the past two years when 40% favored and 49% opposed allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. ...
There has been a similar shift among white Catholics – 49% now favor same-sex marriage while 41% are opposed. ...
White evangelical Protestants overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage (20% favor vs. 74% oppose), and these opinions have changed little since 2008-2009. Similarly, black Protestants continue to oppose gay marriage by a wide margin (28% favor vs. 62% oppose).
By contrast, Jews and the unaffiliated have remained far more supportive of same-sex marriage. Their views also have changed little during this time. Three-quarters of Jews (76%) and 62% of the religiously unaffiliated say they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally.
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There's a lot of progress, although disappointingly slow in the African American community.
I'm REALLY hoping the Bishop Eddie Long case turns into a "teachable moment" for many African-American Protestants (the way Ted Haggard and George Rekers were some white Evangelicals: the poll doesn't say if some "White evangelical Protestants" ceased being the "eP" part, over time---and experience!)
The trouble with these hopes is that the neo-Pentecostal explanation for the homosexual actions of a formerly respected preacher is that "the preacher was inhabited by the demon of homosexuality". Most Neo-pentecostal religious leaders (preachers and televangelists) take their demons literally and many do exorcism rituals.
A belief in demons allows the believer to go along never questioning.
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