More Americans approve of refusing same-sex couples service, per new poll
Source: think progress
But they're less likely to believe it's happening.
Aug 7, 2018, 1:21 pm
The latest poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has found a marked uptick in support for allowing religion to justify discrimination against same-sex couples. The findings were collected shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.
Though the ruling didn’t actually grant the right to discriminate to business owners, it may have helped shift public perceptions about the issue. Americans are now pretty evenly split, with 46 percent believing that religious business owners should be allowed to refuse service and 48 percent objecting to such discrimination. That’s a significant shift toward favoring discrimination from just a year ago, when the split was 41-53. The survey specifically asked about owners of weddings-based businesses, like bakeries, florists, and caterers.
Over the last year, pro-discrimination views notably increased among Republicans (67 percent to 73 percent), Black Americans (36 percent to 45 percent), and Hispanic Americans (26 percent to 34 percent). White evangelical Protestants remain the religious group most likely to support anti-gay discrimination (70 percent), while the groups most strongly opposed to discrimination remain Catholics and religiously unaffiliated Americans, with 58 percent of both groups objecting to religious refusals.
Despite this shift, support for laws protecting LGBTQ people has remained consistently strong, with 71 percent believing laws should prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. This suggests that people increasingly see religion as grounds for an exemption from following the law.......................................
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/religious-freedom-discrimination-same-sex-couples-prri-poll-d6f687d229f7/
Sadly, I am not surprised. So many just follow the bigoted Trump!!
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The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis
One doesn't have to travel far to see the contempt people have for LGBT people. Be it jokes at our expense, ignoring our issues, or flat out 'whataboutism', it is very clear to this gay man the hate, as well as, the indifference toward GLBT people is palatable. Rises in hate crimes across almost all categories, and some look at this information and suddenly "want more information." 
It is as it always has been...heterosexism at its worst!
