Is homosexuality an important religious issue?

[HairOfTheDog]

Are you religious?

If so is homosexuality an important religious issue?

I'm not religious.

As I mentioned upthread, from what I've seen, homosexuality is indeed an important issue to some religious people, but many religious organizations have become more accepting of homosexuality in response to changing social views and norms.

IMO, a growing number of religious leaders and organizations are either skirting the issue altogether or officially backing off of their previous condemnation of homosexuality because they'd continue losing a lot of followers otherwise (some of them may also be sincere in having changed their perspectives over the last decade or so).

Survey says...
Came across some interesting new research/survey results this morning about how organized religions have seen their followers dwindle in direct correlation to the religion's intolerance of homosexuality.

Specifically regarding religiosity and changing views towards same-sex marriage:


Ref:
http://publicreligion.org/newsroom/2014/...bt-survey/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26...gay-voices