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Lucylastic -> RE: "Religion will become as unacceptable as racism" (3/13/2014 3:20:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BitYakin
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
Not gay marriage... I am talking about gays in general...Homophobia is NOT exclusive to those who are spiritual.
While it's technically accurate to say that not every single homophobe is spiritual it's also very misleading.
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ORIGINAL: http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2009/03/whats-connection-between-religion-and.html
Unsurprisingly, religious people were more likely to be homophobic - in fact, religion was one of the strongest predictors of attitudes to homosexuals.
It also turned out that more religious people were more likely to be authoritarian, conservative, poorer, and Protestant - all factors that also predicted homophobia. Women were also more likely to be religious, but less likely than men to be homophobic.
But even after taking all this into account, religious people were still more likely to be homophobic. In other words, an authoritarian conservative is even more likely to be homophobic if they are also religious. Women are more likely to be homophobic if they are religious. Among all the possible factors they explored, two stuck out as being much more powerful predictors of homophobia than the rest: conservatism and religiosity.
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did ya ever stop to think and/or wonder if MAYBE of the study/control group that just MAYBE 99% were religious..
lets say you used 1000 people, and found that 50% of those people are homophobic, but 99% of the entire group was religious, this would mean 99.5% of your homophobic group were ALSO religious. you could therefor make the claim that RELIGION is the thing these people have in common...
see I notice your article says they used 1500 adults, but HOW MANY OF THEM WERE ATHIESTS?
odds are if you randomly dialed 1500 people in the usa and asked are you RELIGOUIS, a SUPER HIGH percentage would say yes or at the least say, I am SPIRITUAL
so unless your poll group has 50% atheist, its a BIASED POLL
THe APA found it worth publishing
Psychologists have devoted considerable theoretical and empirical attention to the scientific study of social attitudes and prejudice. Most of these studies were conducted with relatively small, nonrepresentative samples of college students. In this study, the authors analyzed self-report data from a random probability sample with over 1500 American adults. Participants answered questions about their religiousness, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), political ideology, demographic characteristics, and attitudes toward persons in historically disadvantaged social groups (i.e., ethnic minorities and homosexual individuals). In support of the selective intolerance hypothesis, general religiousness was associated with less accepting attitudes toward homosexuals and negligibly with general racial prejudice. These associations remained when controlling for some other known individual differences in prejudice. The authors tentatively conclude that general religiousness is not associated with universal acceptance of others. Rather, general religiousness appears to be linked with selective self-reported intolerance toward persons perceived to behave in a manner inconsistent with some traditional religious teachings.
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/a0014989
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