11-29-2011, 08:54 AM
White Catholics More Supportive
White mainline Protestants and white Catholics have become more supportive of gay marriage, though virtually all of the change in opinion among both groups has come among those who attend services relatively infrequently.
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. Just 35% of white mainline Protestants who attend church at least once a week favor same-sex marriage, nearly the same percentage as in 2008-2009 (34%). Among those who attend services less often, support has increased by 11 points (from 42% to 53%).
There has been a similar shift among white Catholics â 49% now favor same-sex marriage while 41% are opposed. Opinion was more evenly divided over the past two years (44% favor, 45% oppose). Here too, support has increased among those who attend services less than weekly, from 51% in 2008-2009 to 59% in 2010.
I know this figures represents White Catholics but may I remind everyone the Latin American Coutnries who are predomintaely Catholic are emerging as the newest participants in Gay Equality...they unamimously supported the UN admendment.
So I ask...who exactly is the Pope "leading" with his backward and hateful and divisionary ideas...ideas he should know better than to represent considering his past. The 49% who favor same sex marraige or the 41% who oppose it?
White mainline Protestants and white Catholics have become more supportive of gay marriage, though virtually all of the change in opinion among both groups has come among those who attend services relatively infrequently.
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. Just 35% of white mainline Protestants who attend church at least once a week favor same-sex marriage, nearly the same percentage as in 2008-2009 (34%). Among those who attend services less often, support has increased by 11 points (from 42% to 53%).
There has been a similar shift among white Catholics â 49% now favor same-sex marriage while 41% are opposed. Opinion was more evenly divided over the past two years (44% favor, 45% oppose). Here too, support has increased among those who attend services less than weekly, from 51% in 2008-2009 to 59% in 2010.
I know this figures represents White Catholics but may I remind everyone the Latin American Coutnries who are predomintaely Catholic are emerging as the newest participants in Gay Equality...they unamimously supported the UN admendment.
So I ask...who exactly is the Pope "leading" with his backward and hateful and divisionary ideas...ideas he should know better than to represent considering his past. The 49% who favor same sex marraige or the 41% who oppose it?
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