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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @12:54AM
Yea, I completely see your logic, "Hi, I like to have sex with other men, which exactly the same as you being black and Jim Crow."
See how stupid that sounds?
Take a look at what is happening. The "right" to marriage has more attached than two people sharing inheritance or hospital visits. With the "right" to marriage comes the "right" to start a family. I'm not the one saying this, it's the gay lobby that is pushing this. How do they get those children, given that gay couples by nature cannot have them? They buy them of course. Be it by paying the most to get one via adoption or by getting one via surrogacy or by getting the best divorce lawyers to cut out the other parent.
Let that sink in for a moment.
True that heterosexuals first started the practice when IVF was invented, but gays are mainstreaming the practice of turning children into property that is bought and sold like chickens and pigs in the booming baby farming surrogate industry. (Which is why most of the developed world has banned surrogacy to various degrees as a form of human trafficking.) Gays don't want people to tell them who to love, but they have no problem telling that to a child once they've discarded that child's birth-mother like a rented oven.
I've known plenty of people who have lost a parent through death when they were young, it's traumatic to lose a parent. People who were given up for adoption spend years searching for their birth parents, as only a couple of years ago my family learned of a cousin that my aunt gave up for adoption when she was young.
Now we have children bring raised by people who claim to "love" them but who have gone out of their way to completely erase half of that child's history and ancestry. In essence, they only love half of the child, the half that is theirs. I've seen that done to children by heterosexual parents in divorce, and it is an extremely cruel thing to do. Now there are people trying to protect that form of abuse by law.
Don't take my word for it, read the briefs submitted by children of gays, some of them gay and/or bisexual themselves, to the supreme court telling their side of the story.
Here is the joint brief filed by Dawn Stefanowicz and Denise Shick:
http://x.vindicosuite.com/click/fbfpc=1;v=5;m=3;l=401071;c=776283;b=3368032;dct=http%3A//www.supremecourt.gov/ObergefellHodges/AmicusBriefs/14-556_Dawn_Stefanowicz_and_Denise_Shick.pdf [vindicosuite.com]
Here is the joint brief filed by Katy Faust and Heather Barwick:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/ObergefellHodges/AmicusBriefs/14-556_Heather_Barwick_and_Katy_Faust.pdf [supremecourt.gov]
Here is the joint brief filed by me and B.N. Klein:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/ObergefellHodges/AmicusBriefs/14-556_Robert_Oscar_Lopez_and_BN_Klein.pdf [supremecourt.gov]
Want even more examples? Check out "Jephthah's Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family 'Equality'"
http://www.amazon.com/Jephthahs-Daughters-Innocent-Casualties-Equality/dp/1505810787 [amazon.com]
Here is a couple videos of that author speaking. A gay, now bisexual, man who was raised by his mother and her lesbian partner. He's not some religious nut spouting bible quotes, but someone who has lived the life the gay lobby wants paint as just as good as heterosexual marriage. For him daring to speak the truth about his experience, the Human Rights campaign labeled him an "Exporter of Hate" and have tried to get him fired like they have done to other children of gays who speak about their experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4wJz5c5GXo [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrMeVhhL7m4 [youtube.com]
Gays are not fighting some noble battle against "The Man", they ARE "The Man". The gay lobby gets tens of millions of dollars a year to lobby with, but the people hurt by them are starting to fight back and speak out.
Note how no bible verses were used in this post, so ranting against religion is gonna get you nowhere.