{"id":10139,"date":"2023-03-23T21:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:31:04","slug":"one-reason-why-young-adults-are-leaving-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/one-reason-why-young-adults-are-leaving-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"One reason why young adults are leaving religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/03\/23\/prri-report-lgbtq-americans-tend-to-be-young-and-have-no-religion\/\">According to Religion News Service,<\/a> a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that young adults who are LGBTQ+ are likely to have no religious affiliation: &#8220;According to the report, LGBTQ Americans are more likely to have no religious affiliation (50%) than Americans in general (26%).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No surprise there, given how hostile many religious groups still are to LGBTQ+ people. But what did surprise me is that nearly a quarter of young adults in the U.S. report that they are LGBTQ+ \u2014 way up from previous generations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;PRRI\u2019s researchers found that about 10% of Americans overall \u2014 almost half (46%) of them under the age of 30 \u2014 identify as LGBTQ: 3% as gay or lesbian, 4% as bisexual and 2% as something else. Nearly one-quarter of Americans under 30 identify as LGBTQ (23%).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So of course young adults are going to stay away from organizations that signal fear, loathing, and hostility towards LGBTQ+ people. Why go someplace where either you or your friends are not welcome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Religion News Service, a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that young adults who are LGBTQ+ are likely to have no religious affiliation: &#8220;According to the report, LGBTQ Americans are more likely to have no religious affiliation (50%) than Americans in general (26%).&#8221; No surprise there, given how hostile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/one-reason-why-young-adults-are-leaving-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One reason why young adults are leaving religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[970],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","tag-lgbtq-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}