New PRRI poll also shows LGBTQ Americans tend to be younger and have no religion. (Patrick Semansky | AP) President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. A new PRRI poll shows how various religious groups view LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. For the most part, religious Americans say their LGBTQ neighbors should be free of discrimination when they are at work, in public or at home. This is true even among groups that oppose same-sex marriage. One place they disagree is over whether businesses — such as cake bakers or other vendors — ever have the right to refuse service. On that issue, Americans are split along religious and party lines. Meanwhile, almost half of LGBTQ Americans are young and claim no religion. Those are among the findings of a new report on polarization and LGBTQ rights from the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute . The report, based on data from PRRI’s 2022 American Values Atlas, looked at the views of 22,984 adults living in all 50 states. PRRI’s researchers found that about 10% of Americans overall — almost half (46%) of […]
