So, 31% of All Americans Are Unsupportive of LGBTQ People's Rights [View all]
That even includes most religious folks apparently, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, as reported by another member who posted a link to:
https://religionnews.com/2019/03/12/survey-all-major-faith-groups-show-broad-support-for-lgbt-protection-laws/
That's similar to the percentage of people who are strongly committed to supporting Donald J. Trump. That's a lot of people, although there is no demonstrated correlation between the two groups.
Oddly enough, Pew Research, back in 2014, as reported here by another DUer, did a survey of atheists and found that 94% of them were supportive of LGBTQ people's rights. That, of course, means that 6% aren't supportive of those rights, which is deplorable of that 6%, in my opinion. Here's a link to the Pew research info:
http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-family/atheist/views-about-homosexuality/
What's striking here is that five times+ fewer atheists surveyed were unsupportive than the general population and religious believers. The PPRI survey also showed that some evangelical Christians had much higher numbers of unsupportive people, which is not surprising, I suppose.
Five times more people in general don't support LGBTQ rights than atheists. 31% to 6%. Now, even 6% is too high a number, but when almost a third of Americans in general are unsupportive, that's a significant difference. At least, when it comes to atheists, you find five times fewer atheists who don't support LGBTQ rights.
No matter how you look at those statistics, that's a very significant difference. That says something about comparing atheists' attitudes on that matter with the general run of people, including those who are religious. Something significant.
