Six in 10 gays and lesbians say that faith is an important part of their lives, according to a Christian research group. Conversely, about 72% of straight adults describe their faith as being an integral part of their lives.
"People who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic Christian-bashers are not working with the facts," said George Barna of the Barna Group, which conducted the study. "A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today."
The study's authors wrote that the findings were "surprising. "In the wake of those controversies and the spotlight aimed at gays, Americans have developed numerous assumptions about the lives of the homosexual population."
Additionally, about 60% of straight Christians said they were completely devoted to their faith, compared to 40% of gay responders identifying as Christian. The study also revealed that straight adults were nearly twice as likely as gays to qualify as born-again Christians (47% compared to 27%, respectively).
In the study, conducted between January 2007 and November 2008 by phone interviews, researchers asked 9,232 people about their sexual orientation.
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It's called programming, all systems, everywhere require codes, lists of instructions in order to function, superstition it seems is the ONE code humans have evolved to make sense of a disturbing abstract existence. My question is and has always been, why would a superbeing of such immense power, that lives forever, knows everything, created the entire universe both visible and unobservable, have any interest in a small unremarkable planet at the edge of a tiny galaxy within a cluster of local galaxies in an Infinite universe, and the relatively new species of talking apes that just happen to be there, for the time being, 4.5 billion years after the planet was actually formed. We all search for meaning, for purpose, but the answer does not lie in Gods and Devils, It lies in each other. Perhaps one day people will evolve further to value all life for what it is. The most precious thing. I am an atheist, and proud of it I'm also gay. Remember, I'm not your enemy, and the things that unite us are far stronger than the things that divide us. JIM.
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