Comments on: Americans Say Gays Face Most Discrimination

By: R. Zeke Fread

R. Zeke Fread — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:32:03 +0000

The Pew Research Center’s survey certainly doesn’t come as a surprise to the GLBT community, we live with discrimination and blatant hatred everyday. If anything, at the least it exposes what we’ve been attempting to educate the public to forever. I was pleased to see the numbers for Mormons and Evangelical Christians were low. Considering their propaganda’s machines have been working overtime to convince the American people they’re the targets of discrimination because of their religious beliefs. I hope this means people realize that they are using these beliefs, as well as millions of millions of dollars, to continue lead the fight to deny GLBT their equal rights. I believe the numbers for them should have been even lower. Taking into account they’re the one who incite so much hatred directed at GLBT’s, and others who don’t follow in goose-step with their anti-gay agenda.

Sadly, Pomo, hit the nail on the head. The people know this, yet continue to keep these idiots in office. When are they going to wake-up, smell the coffee, and kick these politicians butts to the curb? Nothing is going to change until people step-up and take responsibility for allowing the status quo to continue. Discrimination will most likely never end, but, we can do something to decrease the number of people who suffer from it.

By: Burr

Burr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:00:11 +0000

I think it’s interesting that atheists are so low in the Yes column, considering that one poll a while back that said more people would consider voting for a homosexual than an atheist.

Not that I necessarily disagree with that, but it does exist, albeit mostly in far more subtle ways like the one I mentioned.

I do think it’s odd that Mormons score even lower than Evangelicals, who are often the instigators against the former. Guess they’re come across as far less pitiable with their aggression towards LGBTs now.

By: Pomo

Pomo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:37:17 +0000

HA! So they know we’re discriminated against and yet most of them still support laws which enforce discrimination. Its just like the low approval rating for congress and yet everyone always reelects the incumbent. Because its always someone else’s problem or someone else’s representative that is bad or someone else that is doing the discrimination!

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:46 +0000

The hate crimes against gays tend to be more of a violent nature.

Getting off this subject, I am fascinated by the case of the young South African female runner who has been proven to be a hermaphrodite.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:23:57 +0000

Good point Alex, but Box turtle has posted statistics about actual hate crimes against minority groups and the results are similar to this poll. Perhaps someone at Box Turtle could link to those statistics, I remember reading them during the prop 8 campaign.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:12:17 +0000

These numbers are interesting and somewhat surprising, but I think a study of actual discrimination against minorities would be far more useful than a poll of perceived discrimination.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:10:59 +0000

The remaining answers were either Don’t Know or refused to answer. I’ve updated the post to clarify that.

The low numbers for Mormons and Evangelical Christians don’t surprise me one bit. While members of those two groups often claim victimhood status over perceived slights, ordinary Americans tend not to look at either group as particularly disadvantaged when it comes to acts of discrimination.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:03:55 +0000

None of the combined ‘Yes’ & ‘No’ lines add up to 100%. Were there other choices not shown here? I’m surprised at the low %% for Mormon and Evang. Does this reflect a skewing of the sample set?