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New survey says that almost one third identify treatment of gays as reason they left their religion.

Courtesy of Public Religion:

Among Americans who left their childhood religion and are now religiously unaffiliated, about one-quarter say negative teachings about or treatment of gay and lesbian people was a somewhat important (14%) or very important (10%) factor in their decision to disaffiliate. Among Millennials who no longer identify with their childhood religion, nearly one-third say that negative teachings about, or treatment of, gay and lesbian people was either a somewhat important (17%) or very important (14%) factor in their disaffiliation from religion.

And yet many Right Wing conservatives continue to believe that denying marriage rights to the LGBT community is going to benefit them in future elections, and Fundamentalists continue to stubbornly cling to an outdated view of morality simply because some desert dweller wrote about it in the Bible.

You know it is not often that you can actually watch the last desperate gasps of a prejudicial mindset playing out in real time.

And yet at this moment in time, that is exactly what we are witnessing.

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