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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the touched-by-his-noodly-appendage dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:39PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:39PM (#182945) Journal

    fairy whining, rainbow parades

    At some point, one has to put one's foot down. Straight folks' love life is acceptable water cooler conversation, and sometimes it gets tiring listening to it.

    and bakery lawsuits

    This I truly don't comprehend. If I ever find my Prince Charming and settle down to have kids, why the hell would I want to hire somebody to bake the wedding cake who's going to flip out because my official records list me as male?

    Yet here we are. Some friends and I are thinking about going to an all you can eat wings place in Indiana in the next week or so, and now I'm wondering if I should give a call ahead just to make sure we won't get booted if I order a beer and the waiter notices that there's an M on my CDL.

    If you look into it, the law you're talking about isn't even necessary from the perspective of denying service. All it does is protect nutters who don't want to be a part of LGBT weddings from those lawsuits, so overall it's probably a good law. My main gripe is that there needs to be a way for these businesses to communicate to potential customers who's welcome and who's not. Maybe they could take a cue from the Jim Crow era.

    This is an unfortunate side-effect of the aforementioned greater legal acceptance of LGBT folks. Other folks go full retard with religion as their excuse out of some sense of persecution of their identities. They're free to do what they want, I just want to keep my money away from them and enjoy some beer and hot wings in peace.

    See? Sometimes the free market does work out!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:28PM (#182973)

    "At some point, one has to put one's foot down. Straight folks' love life is acceptable water cooler conversation, and sometimes it gets tiring listening to it."

    In a pluralistic society, everyone has the opportunity to be bored.