Current Events > Majority of US Muslims now support same-sex marriage per poll

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https://www.newsweek.com/muslim-white-evangelical-gay-marriage-907627

Opposition to same-sex marriage has decreased across a broad swath of religious groups in the United States, with white evangelical Christians one of the few movements for which a majority remains in opposition. Three years on from the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the findings from the Public Religion Research Institutes 2017 American Values Atlas, published Tuesday, showed growing support for LGBT rights, including a majority of U.S. Muslims backing same-sex marriage for the first time.

Muslims, by a margin of 51 percent to 34 percent, favor same-sex marriage, compared to just four years ago when a majority, 51 percent, were opposed. There were similar results for black Protestants, with 54 percent opposing gay marriage in PRRIs 2014 American Values Atlas, compared with 43 percent in the latest findings.

Indeed, opposition to same-sex marriage is now limited almost entirely to white conservative Christians. Fifty-eight percent of white evangelical Christians and 53 percent of Mormonsan overwhelming majority of whom are whiteare opposed to allowing gay couples to marry. The group with the most opposition, though, is Jehovahs Witnesses, a group which is 36 percent white, 32 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black in the U.S. Just 13 percent support the law.

As a whole, 63 percent of Americans now back allowing same-sex couples to marry, up from 52 percent four years ago. All major racial groups now have a majority in favor. Republicans, though, remain opposed, 51 percent to 42 percent.

In its platform ahead of the 2016 election, the Republican Party declined to soften its language on the right of same-sex couples to wed from four years previously when it called the act an assault on the foundations of our society.

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this is literally how assimilation works and will always work for the enirtey of human life. they aren't muslims, they are Americans.
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Someone, somewhere, will seriously claim "something something Sharia Law something something make us all be gay".
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Do Non-US Muslims think the same? Hmm?

inb4 they aren't really muslims if they support same-sex marriage
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How many mosques allow gay people again?
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Nice
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RiderofHogs posted...

How many mosques allow gay people again?

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RiderofHogs posted...

RiderofHogs posted...

quoting myself

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Answer the question.
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HiddenRoar posted...

Do Non-US Muslims think the same? Hmm?

They largely don't, but let's celebrate this news as a win. Muslim immigration and integration into the the US melting pot is working to everyone's benefit.
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DarthGravid posted...

Someone, somewhere, will seriously claim "something something Sharia Law something something make us all be gay".

Prolly
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HiddenRoar posted...

Do Non-US Muslims think the same? Hmm?

What's your point?
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Damn hog, youre really looking for any chance to hate Muslims, arent you
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PleaseClap posted...

Damn hog, youre really looking for any chance to hate Muslims, arent you

When they actually change maybe I will too. But this poll doesn't really change anything since not one mosque in the US allows gay people.
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RiderofHogs posted...

PleaseClap posted...

Damn hog, youre really looking for any chance to hate Muslims, arent you

When they actually change maybe I will too. But this poll doesn't really change anything since not one mosque in the US allows gay people.

This article is clearly showing that they are changing. It's a gradual process, unless you want 100% instantly.

Note that you don't seem to have an issue with the homophobia of White conservatives cited in the article.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

What's your point?

He doesn't (never does) have one.
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RiderofHogs posted...

When they actually change maybe I will too. But this poll doesn't really change anything since not one mosque in the US allows gay people.

No. You have no intentions of changing.

You will always hate them no matter what. Heck, do you even have a source for no mosque accepting gay people? Probably not.

Definitely a good thing when all religions can join us in the year 2018.

Now lets get this message to spread east
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Note that you don't seem to have an issue with the homophobia of White conservatives cited in the article.

Because this is a religious problem and there are quite a few Christian churches that allow gays and even let them hold positions in the church
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Yay
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RiderofHogs posted...

RiderofHogs posted...

How many mosques allow gay people again?

I dont know of any mosques that refuse religious service to gay people. Do you mean gay weddings?

RiderofHogs posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

Note that you don't seem to have an issue with the homophobia of White conservatives cited in the article.

Because this is a religious problem and there are quite a few Christian churches that allow gays and even let them hold positions in the church

But according to the article, a larger percentage of White conservatives are against homosexuality than Muslims. If you're concerned with the homophobia of Muslims, why not the larger percentage of White conservatives? Especially seeing as they still have strongholds in the country and still try their best to fight progress in that area?
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Because Muslims are brown and hogrider doesn't want them in the country. He doesn't actually care about anything else.

Solar_Crimson posted...

If you're concerned with the homophobia of Muslims, why not the larger percentage of White conservatives?

Because they are not immigrating from countries that routinely throw gay people off of buildings.

Alphamon posted...

Because Muslims are brown and hogrider doesn't want them in the country. He doesn't actually care about anything else.

I don't give a shit about skin color. I would feel the same way about a white muslim as I do about a colored one. It is the ideology I don't like, not the skin color.
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RiderofHogs posted...

I don't give a s*** about skin color. I would feel the same way about a white muslim as I do about a colored one. It is the ideology I don't like, not the skin color.

And yet you've provided no proof that no mosque accept gay people.

You've just said:

Because they are not immigrating from countries that routinely throw gay people off of buildings.

Now. Are people who are more likely to support gay marriage than not going to throw gay people out of buildings? No. It doesn't happen in America. And we can all see your anti-immigrant bullshit again right here.

You're a white nativist and its so obvious

Alphamon posted...

Are people who are more likely to support gay marriage than not going to throw gay people out of buildings? No.

So we are just going to believe them even though their religion allows them to lie in order to infiltrate communities.
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RiderofHogs posted...

So we are just going to believe them even though their religion allows them to lie in order to infiltrate communities.

There you go. You have no intentions of not hating them.

You talk about lies but you haven't provided one piece of evidence that no mosque accepts gay people.

Have you ever talked to an American muslim? You can be openly gay in front of most of them and none that I have seen care. Get out of your lily white NH bubble and actually start talking to people from California and immigrants.

Shocker. They are not bad.

Caution999 posted...

Definitely a good thing when all religions can join us in the year 2018.

nope, gotta wait for the christians now.
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Alphamon posted...

You talk about lies but you haven't provided one piece of evidence that no mosque accepts gay people.

You haven't listed even one that does.
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RiderofHogs posted...

Alphamon posted...

You talk about lies but you haven't provided one piece of evidence that no mosque accepts gay people.

You haven't listed even one that does.

You are the one who made a claim. You back it up or you are lying. None of the Muslims I know hate gay people and support gay marriage.

Why would I assume they wouldn't let gay people in?

RiderofHogs posted...

Alphamon posted...

You talk about lies but you haven't provided one piece of evidence that no mosque accepts gay people.

You haven't listed even one that does.

you fucking made the claim
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metralo posted...

RiderofHogs posted...

Alphamon posted...

You talk about lies but you haven't provided one piece of evidence that no mosque accepts gay people.

You haven't listed even one that does.

you fucking made the claim

And if you want to prove me wrong it would be easy if you just posted one that does.
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muslims dont even allow non-muslims into mecca
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HiddenRoar posted...

Do Non-US Muslims think the same? Hmm?

Cultural differences
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https://www.npr.org/2018/04/15/602605271/a-mosque-for-lgbtq-muslims

There, all this crying over a fucking simple Google search. Now let's watch the goal posts get moved.
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of course they are still muslims, but that doesn't define them? everyone in america is an american, just as much as anyone else

conservatives are super scared of non straight whites though. they think no one else can be americans.
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Muslim Americans tend to be rather liberal when it comes to their beliefs. Most of their opinions change when they actually meet someone who is LGBT. Muslims in general however still have a long way to go however and i just hope ill be alive long enough to see religion in general to die off.
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Well this topic certainly went...somewhere
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A_Good_Boy posted...

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/15/602605271/a-mosque-for-lgbtq-muslims

There, all this crying over a fucking simple Google search. Now let's watch the goal posts get moved.

Not really a mosque if he has to rent space from an actual church. And from what I remember the guy tends to get a lot of hate mail from muslims all over the country and world.
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No intentions of not hating them.

Man, the boldness of a dude moving goalposts in a comment where he's preemptively called out for moving goalposts.
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I mean idk why you expected much out of hog
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