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    2. IceMain9074 on

      what happened in the muslim population in 2022-2023 that makes it so drastically more extreme than the other groups’ trend

    5. michaelquinlan on

      What religions are “White Catholic”, “Other Catholic of color”, etc? I hadn’t realized that Catholic and Protestant religions were segregated by skin color.

    9. tanghan on

      So in the US the protestants are traditional and Catholics are more progressive? In Europe it’s the other way round

    10. Moonhunter7 on

      Pretty much all above 50% support. The majority approve of protection. It’s the loud obnoxious minority who make it seem like they are in the majority.

    11. jrblockquote on

      Hahah Jehovah Witnesses bringing in the rear. Shocker. I raised in a cult very similar to Jehovah Witnesses and was taught that the prevalence of homosexuality would be the downfall of America. I was also taught that brainwashing could cure people of homosexuality and to commit a homosexual act, one must be possessed by the devil. Now I have an LGBTQ child who I love more than anything and I go to rallies and provide support to the LGBTQ community. Funny how life works sometimes.

    12. agarci0731 on

      I’m not as familiar with Jehova’s Witnesses aside from the door knocking and the missions in my home country they do, so I am slightly surprised by their relative ranking. 

    13. iantosteerpike on

      There’s also been the growing corporate media and oligarch-owned social media – both of which have been ratcheting up the lying scare tactics about LGBTQ+ people in the run up to the 2024 election. This will continue as they attempt to implement their 2025 agenda, because targeting vulnerable minority groups is how they keep people distracted and complacent.

      This should also be a very clear signal to any deluded gays thinking that throwing our trans siblings under the bus will save them – we ALL have a target on our backs from these people, and only working together do we have a hope of pushing back against the bigotry and lies about us.

    14. HOLYCRAPGIVEMEANAME on

      I wonder what the reasoning for the decline is. More people surveyed? Immigration? The trans movement hurting the “traditional” gay marriage approval numbers? Swing in politics?

    15. Appropriate-Tear503 on

      22,000 seems like a large sample size, but when you take into account the representation of some of the smaller minority religions, I think that might explain a lot of the crazy variations we’re seeming.

    17. GallantChaos on

      They always (sic) organize by professed religion but never by attendance frequency.

      I’d love to see one of these sorted by religion and by church attendance.

    19. FIRETOXIC_S7 on

      Why they have “White catholic” and “black catholic” as a thing appart?

      Bro 🗿

    20. Nuclear-Cheese on

      This is surprising to me as I was raised Lutheran ELCA and they are very progressive in regards to LGBTQ and women pastors

    21. its_raining_scotch on

      Damn so much backtracking in the second image data. Just one year of targeted social media attacks erased years of progress.

    22. a3r0d7n4m1k on

      Everyone is questioning the big drop among Muslims (fair, it’s a lot in one year) but what is happening with the Buddhists????

    23. lNFORMATlVE on

      I can’t believe muslims support same sex marriage more than white evangelical protestants. That makes absolutely no sense to me from a non-american perspective. Exact opposite trend in my country. Although our “evangelicals” tend to be fairly progressive and are less tied to a particular political party. And there isn’t a big fight about things like abortion.

    25. A-passing-thot on

      Just want to chime in that the colors chosen here are a nightmare as someone who’s red-green colorblind. 2022 and 2023 are nearly identical for me and I can’t tell which went down in support because of that.

    27. The_Metitron on

      Why are Catholics separated by ethnicity/race/skin color and no others are? That seems like an odd representation of the data.

    28. pounds on

      Glad to see the mormons made a lot of progress since 2015. Went to the gay wedding of a close family member last year in Salt Lake County and it was really nice to see how many mormons were there, full of love. Though it was very noticeable that there were still lots of close family who were mormon who refused to attend. Long way to go, my momo family, but I know you can do it!

    30. Baeblayd on

      I don’t understand why there’s a push to lump gay, lesbian, and bisexual in with transgender people on every issue.

      Like in Figure 6 is pretty clearly directed at the T, not the LGB.

    32. gox777 on

      Interesting…

      A few thoughts come to mind looking at this:

      1 – It would be helpful to see the trend over more years than the ones chosen. The chart shows there’s been a pullback in support of these issues across the board from 2022 to 2023, but how do we know one of those samples wasn’t anomalous within a broader trend?

      2 – What kind of impact did immigration have on these findings? For example, were there any influxes of Muslims from more socially conservative areas at play?

      3 – Can we be assured that the wording of the questions and methodology of the survey was consistent between years?

    33. DivineAlmond on

      Muslim 2022 must be a polling error, there is no way Muslims support gays

      t. atheist turk, its OK I can say these, its like a white guy saying “whites are racist”

    34. eldiablonacho on

      It’s interesting that over time, even the least supportive group have increased their support with regards to this. So it appears resistance to this is decreasing.

    37. intenseskill on

      Is it just me or does it seem crazy that gay rights is even a term we need to use.

      We are all humans that is all that should matter

    38. BludgeIronfist on

      Language is weird… favors laws that would protect… there are already laws that protect them in employment. Do people not know about the EEO or protected classes?

    39. Groostav on

      Let’s hear it for white mainline non-evangelical Christians! As my soccer coach when I was a 10yo used to say: way to be there.

    40. lincoln_hawks1 on

      What a difference a decade makes. Would love to see data on similar questions in earlier periods of time for topics like interracial marriage, school integration, housing discrimination, restaurant segregation.

    43. LupusDeusMagnus on

      What caused the regress in 2023 compared to 2022. The Muslim one looks really odd, too, were the Muslim like “2022 is the year of acceptance, but just 2022”.

    44. gor3asauR on

      It’s crazy to see people support each other in the workplace but not in their personal life. Humanity is fucked.

    45. Zeabos on

      What is most surprising is how much of a strange hole the WEP have on the discourse considering compared to overall American opinion they’re so small.

    47. ModernishNeanderthal on

      What I take away from this more than anything is that Jehovah’s Witnesses really are just the worst people around