No major religious groups - and not even Republicans - support anti-LGBT discrimination laws: poll

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



TRAVIS GETTYS
22 JUN 2017 AT 08:19 ET

Fewer Americans than ever before support legalized discrimination against LGBT people, according to a new poll.

No major religious groups, and not quite half of Republicans, agree that business owners should be permitted to refuse products or services to LGBT customers, according to a new poll by Public Religion Research Institute.

Vice President Mike Pence, as governor of Indiana, signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015, which allowed business owners to refuse service to LGBT customers, but later agreed under intense public pressure to legislative changes watering down the law. Religious right groups have insisted they need such laws to prevent them from being forced to violate their own religious beliefs by serving LGBT customers at bakeries and pizza parlors, among other examples, but fewer Americans agree.

The survey of 40,000 Americans found 61 percent opposed laws allowing LGBT discrimination on religious grounds, with only 30 percent saying they supported such legislation.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/no-major-religious-groups-and-not-even-republicans-support-anti-lgbt-discrimination-laws-poll/

[Shell_Seas]

1. I live in Texas....

In one of the most conservative counties, by voting percentage...

I would have to say I disagree with this. I hear neighbors, co-workers, people at stores and waiting rooms, and it has a lot of support. Or their supporters are just very vocal.