Churches contribute to gay suicides, most Americans believe

[No Passaran]

Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found.

More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative, and about the same number say those messages contribute "a lot" to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.

Catholics were the most critical of their own churches' messages on homosexuality, while white evangelical Christians gave their churches the highest grades, the survey found.

The Public Religion Research Institute asked 1,017 Americans their views on religion and homosexuality between October 14 and 17, in the wake of a highly publicized rash of suicides by gay people.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/21/churches-contribute-to-gay-suicides-most-americans-believe/?hpt=C1


Fort Worth Texas Councilman Joel Burns’ videotaped story about being gay and bullied as a child recently went viral on the internet.

[Occulus]

1. Without a doubt.

It's what gave me cause to reject organized religion of all stripes.

[nofurylike]

2. K&R thank you for posting this, No Passaran! important! nt

[laconicsax]

3. "...white evangelicals give their churches the highest grades..."

Big surprise there.

:sarcasm:

[No Passaran]

4. i'm shocked. I tell ya nt

[johnnypneumatic]

5. religious persecution is child abuse

-and, while the Catholic Church has been extremely homophobic, most Catholics are not.
-and nope, evangelical Christians as well as evangelical churches are extremely homophobic
-and nope, it is not a sudden "rash of suicides by gay people", thousands of gay kids have committed suicide all along for years and years and no one cared...