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"Yet Christian extremists would have you believe that LGBTQ people are the 'groomers.' That simply being LGBTQ in public is a threat to children. They say this even as church after church across multiple denominations are exposed for covering up and enabling decades of abuse.
Unfortunately, it appears that these same Christian extremists are making inroads. Following the Religious Right's anti-LGBTQ 'grooming' narrative, more and more Americans consider LGBTQ relationships "immoral," finds a new Gallup poll. Today, practically all groups are less tolerant, but Republicans are the demographic where support has eroded the most. Their support for same-sex relationships has dropped 15 percentage points over the past year, with a majority of them now against LGBTQ couples."
— Atheist News, email newsletter from American Atheists, June 24, 2023
The second link goes to a Business Insider article that says: "In the poll last month, the latest edition of a survey that Gallup conducts annually, just 41% of Republicans said gay or lesbian relations were morally acceptable, a 15-percentage-point drop from 2022. ... Democratic approval also fell to 79% from 85%. ... The sharp drop in support among some Americans follows an especially aggressive year of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and politics. ... Last year, the crisis-monitoring group ACLED found that right-wing extremists had held at least 55 protests explicitly targeting LGBTQ people, with the rise in such actions correlating with a spike in violence against them."
I also recommend James Finn's essay, "Support for Same-Sex Marriage Falls as Right Intensifies ‘War on Trans’: Let me tell you why that matters to me. I hope it matters to you." It's a 7-minute read on Medium.
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