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To: James Seagrove who wrote (142248)	6/19/2018 10:40:11 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219712

Majority of U.S. Muslims Now Support Gay Marriage, While White Evangelical Christians Remain Opposed - newsweek.com Opposition to same-sex marriage has decreased across a broad swath of religious groups in the United States, with white evangelical Christians one of the few movements for which a majority remains in opposition. Three years on from the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the findings from the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2017 American Values Atlas, published Tuesday, showed growing support for LGBT rights, including a majority of U.S. Muslims backing same-sex marriage for the first time. Muslims, by a margin of 51 percent to 34 percent, favor same-sex marriage, compared to just four years ago when a majority, 51 percent, were opposed. There were similar results for black Protestants, with 54 percent opposing gay marriage in PRRI’s 2014 American Values Atlas, compared with 43 percent in the latest findings. ¤¤— Opposition to same-sex marriage is now limited almost entirely to white conservative Christians —¤¤ Fifty-eight percent of white evangelical Christians and 53 percent of Mormons—an overwhelming majority of whom are white—are opposed to allowing gay couples to marry. The group with the most opposition, though, is Jehovah’s Witnesses, a group which is 36 percent white, 32 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black in the U.S. Just 13 percent support the law. As a whole, 63 percent of Americans now back allowing same-sex couples to marry, up from 52 percent four years ago. All major racial groups now have a majority in favor. Republicans, though, remain opposed, 51 percent to 42 percent.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (142248)	6/20/2018 3:53:48 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By James Seagrove Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219712

I can see how Moslems get their ideas when they see such sillyness. The reason marriage was invented was so that when a young woman and man got randy and sex produced a baby, everyone would know who was responsible for the woman and baby. His property and hers were combined for common purpose. It's like people forming a company to share particular property for particular purposes. There are also partnerships, trusts, friendly societies. But a couple of blokes who want to be friends with benefits don't need the pretence of marriage and all the paperwork and cost of divorce. They are not going to find one of them is suddenly pregnant. It could make sense for a couple of homosexual women if they agree that one or both of them get pregnant and share the results, costs, responsibilities and efforts. It's a pretence that homosexual men are the same. Mqurice