U.S. Muslims and Hindus More Accepting of Gay Marriage that Evangelicals

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While homophobia and anti-gay laws (and violence) remain significant problems in the Middle East and India, a new Public Religion Research Institute study reveals that American Muslims and Hindus are more accepting of gays and same sex marriage than the "godly" evangelical Christian crowd.  These findings underscore just how extreme evangelical Christians are and show that "non-American religions" from the perspective of the Republican Party are more assimilated into main stream American culture than the Bible thumpers and their sycophants in the GOP.  Leading the pack in the knuckle dragger set are the Jehovah's Witness (16% support) followed by the evangelical Baptists (23%) and Mormons (27%).  

On the modernity embracing side, 61% of Catholics support same sex marriage signally the reality that Pope Francis and the bitter old men in dresses at the Vatican have lost the anti-gay jihad still pushed by Rome.   Among Muslims, 42% support marriage equality and among Hindus, support is at 55%.  Here are highlights of other findings:

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.

The study findings further confirm that the GOP is pandering to a shrinking ignorance embracing demographic.