{"id":1158,"date":"2014-08-14T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:59:46","slug":"gallup-lgbt-significantly-less-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1158","title":{"rendered":"By the Numbers: LGBT Religion, Parenting, and Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallup<\/strong> released a new poll this week showing that LGBT people were significantly more likely to be non-religious than were non-LGBT people. Additionally, there were much less likely to attend worship services, and much more likely to say that religion does not play a major role in their daily lives. The full results of this survey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/174788\/lgbt-population-significantly-less-religious.aspx\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Williams Institut<\/strong>e study found that children of LGB couples are as likely to thrive as children raised by heterosexual unions. This mirrors a Melbourne study from earlier this year. The full study<a href=\"http:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/lgb-parent-families-july-2014.pdf\"> can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A CBS Poll found that 50 percent of Hispanics back same sex marriage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/more-americans-say-child-border-crossers-should-be-sent-home-asap\/\">CBS News<\/a>: \u00a0&#8220;More Hispanics think same-sex marriage should be legal (50 percent) than not legal (44 percent). Fifty-four percent of non-Hispanics think it should be legal, compared to 39 percent who say it shouldn&#8217;t be.\u00a0As is the case with the public overall, younger Hispanics are more likely than those who are older to support same-sex marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #202022;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Gallup released a new poll this week showing that LGBT people were significantly more likely to be non-religious than were non-LGBT people. Additionally, there were much less likely to attend worship services, and much more likely to say that religion does not play a major role in their daily lives. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}