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Washington's Blog reports
The Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life is reporting, in their poll of 35,000 Americans, that during the seven years from 2007 to 2014, the numbers of religiously "Unaffiliated" were soaring, the numbers of Christians were plunging, and the numbers of adherents to non-Christian faiths were rising substantially but not nearly as much as were the numbers of "Unaffiliated".
This report, issued on May 12th, is headlined, "America's Changing Religious Landscape: Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow".
It shows that: the percentage of Americans who are unaffiliated rose from 16.1% in 2007 up to 22.8% today.
[...][The USA] is becoming a less [religious], and a more religiously diverse, country.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GungnirSniper on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:40AM
It's not the gay-away attitudes that are growing the evangelicals but the breeding-is-women's-duty attitude. You see the same thing among Orthodox Jews.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:10PM
I've observed both. *In before SJW patriarchy crap.* There are plenty of cisgendered women who are in love with the idea of being nothing more than a baby factory. $diety [ironically], I need to get out of flyover country. Great scenery, miles upon miles of wide-open spaces I've come to love, low cost of living, but for crying out loud, good job redneck cisgendered women, just go ahead and flush down the toilet everything that feminism proper did for you. At least the Orthodox Jews have some class about the matter.
Where I live there are two major hospitals who pretty much own all clinics and practices in the county. One trans woman I know was able to find a GP but was unable to see an endocrinologist to get a prescription for meds due to religious objection. She ended up needing to drive 4 hours to Chicago to an informed consent clinic. Another who had previously seen a doc that's since retired got sandbagged at the scheduling desk attempting to find a new GP just because she mentioned she takes an estrogen.
And the state I live in recently attempted to have a “we're cool and hip!” campaign to attract young folks. Well, the brain-drain's their own fault! Egh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:42PM
If you had the skills, smarts or talent to hang on the coasts you'd already be here. Please, stay with the corn fed proles where you belong. The last thing we need is another dependent when you can't make it in the job market here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by LaminatorX on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:56PM
Some of us stay in the Midwest because we prioritize proximity to friends and family over the job opportunities that larger markets might offer. Competence is really orthogonal to that decision.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @10:37PM
In before SJW patriarchy crap
cisgendered
Come on, you fail on the 5th word. If you want to pass for "non-SJW", then I suggest you stop using SJW keywords such as "cisgendered", nobody in the real world uses them.
Oh and welcome to the world outside your echo-chamber, I hope you enjoy your stay here.
(Score: 1) by dboz87 on Monday May 18 2015, @08:35PM
So basically all women have the right to choose unless you disapprove of that choice. SMDH.