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People Who Are Less Religious Are More Accepting of Homosexuality, Report Finds | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
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Views of Homosexuality Around the World | Pew Research Center
Acceptance of homosexuality has been increasing over the decades, in the US and elsewhere. Younger people are almost universally more accepting of it than older people. People in richer countries tend to be more accepting of it than people in poorer countries, though there is a large scatter. More educated people are more accepting of it than less educated people, and women tend to be more accepting of it than men. The ideological left is more accepting of it than the ideological right.
Turning to religion, people who consider it less important in their daily lives tend to accept it more than people who consider it more important. But in most of the nations surveyed, the dominant religions are the Abrahamic Big Three, mostly Christianity, though Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sects were all represented. The main exceptions were Israel (mainly Judaism), Turkey (Islam), Lebanon (some Islam), and South Korea (some Buddhism).
There is a curious complication. For overall acceptance, Russia and Ukraine are both very bad, at 14%, worse than Turkey and almost as bad as Tunisia. What makes it curious is that both nations had been Communist for 70 years, though with Communism ending there 30 years ago.
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Views of Homosexuality Around the World | Pew Research Center
Acceptance of homosexuality has been increasing over the decades, in the US and elsewhere. Younger people are almost universally more accepting of it than older people. People in richer countries tend to be more accepting of it than people in poorer countries, though there is a large scatter. More educated people are more accepting of it than less educated people, and women tend to be more accepting of it than men. The ideological left is more accepting of it than the ideological right.
Turning to religion, people who consider it less important in their daily lives tend to accept it more than people who consider it more important. But in most of the nations surveyed, the dominant religions are the Abrahamic Big Three, mostly Christianity, though Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sects were all represented. The main exceptions were Israel (mainly Judaism), Turkey (Islam), Lebanon (some Islam), and South Korea (some Buddhism).
There is a curious complication. For overall acceptance, Russia and Ukraine are both very bad, at 14%, worse than Turkey and almost as bad as Tunisia. What makes it curious is that both nations had been Communist for 70 years, though with Communism ending there 30 years ago.
