{"id":54121,"date":"2017-06-22T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/majority-of-americans-oppose-anti-lgbtq-religious-exemption-laws-a-new-nonpartisan-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:01:09","slug":"majority-of-americans-oppose-anti-lgbtq-religious-exemption-laws-a-new-nonpartisan-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/majority-of-americans-oppose-anti-lgbtq-religious-exemption-laws-a-new-nonpartisan-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans oppose anti-LGBTQ religious exemption laws, a new nonpartisan study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Majority of Americans oppose anti-LGBTQ religious exemption laws, a new nonpartisan study shows<\/b><\/p>\n

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Study shows opposition across religions despite calls<\/a> from Trump and Pence for religious exemption laws <\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

GLAAD CEO and President: PRRI study reveals that using religion as a weapon does not line up with American values<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2013 <\/strong>GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, hailed a study<\/a> released yesterday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) which found that over a majority of Americans oppose<\/em> anti-LGBTQ discriminatory laws, also known as so-called \u201creligious exemption\u201d laws. This is in complete contradiction to the White House\u2019s attempt to erase LGBTQ Americans from the fabric of this nation and the anti-LGBTQ \u201creligious exemption\u201d laws that the country is witnessing in statehouses across the nation. President Trump was also previously rumored to pass an Executive Order<\/a> that would have brought across-the-board discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.<\/p>\n

According to the PRRI study<\/a>, close to sixty-one percent of Americans oppose allowing small business owners to refuse to provide products or services to LGBTQ people on regions grounds with only 50% of evangelical Protestants, 42% of Hispanic Protestants, and 25% of Black Protestants voicing support of these anti-LGBTQ measures.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot of the PRRI research study on American views on anti-LGBTQ religious refusal laws<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe PRRI study proves what Americans already know \u2013 using religion as a weapon to harm the LGBTQ community is wrong and completely out-of-touch with American values,\u201d said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. <\/strong>\u201cInstead of pushing their dangerous agenda, President Trump and other anti-LGBTQ elected officials should listen to the people of this nation who know that promoting discrimination is the wrong side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the landmark marriage equality cases by the United States Supreme Court, anti-LGBTQ activists have been using religion as a weapon to harm LGBTQ Americans across the nation. From Vice President Mike Pence<\/a>\u2019s \u201cReligious Freedom Restoration Act\u201d in Indiana, which gave businesses the right to deny LGBTQ Hoosiers housing, employment, and public accommodations, to Texas Governor Greg Abbott<\/a>\u2019s an anti-LGBTQ adoption law which allowed adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the right to adopt a child, anti-LGBTQ lawmakers are taking their discrimination agenda in overdrive. This week\u2019s PRRI study is a blow to the credibility of anti-LGBTQ activists\u2019 arguments.<\/p>\n

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