Analysis

American Religious Landscape Transforming as Support for Same-sex Marriage Dramatically Increases

Nearly one-third of Millennials who left childhood religion cite negative church teachings about gay and lesbian people as important factor

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2014.  In the decade since Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, Americans’ support for allowing gay and lesbian people to legally wed has jumped 21 percentage points, from 32 percent in 2003 to 53 percent in 2013, transforming the American religious landscape.

Proud member of LION Publishers

A major new national survey of more than…

Most read stories this week

Take a Survey

ARCHIVES