Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of North Florida , Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
J Homosex. 2020 Jul 28;67(9):1173-1196. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1582221. Epub 2019 Mar 25.
The cumulative alienation sexual minorities experience from American mainline religious groups may leave them feeling disillusioned and even hostile toward the religious organizations that have historically rejected them. However, research to date has not explored sexual minorities' perceptions of religious traditions in the United States. The current study examines the variations between lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults' (LGB) perceptions of whether religious traditions are friendly/neutral or unfriendly toward the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) population. Using data from the Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of LGBT Adults, the author conducts separate binary logistic regression analyses examining whether four religious traditions-evangelical Protestantism, the Catholic Church, the Jewish religion, and mainline Protestantism-are generally perceived as friendly/neutral or unfriendly toward LGBT people. The findings from this study offer rare insight on sexual minorities' perceptions of major religious traditions and illustrates that sexual minorities have a complex relationship with religion.
美国主流宗教团体使性少数群体逐渐产生疏离感，这可能使他们对历史上排斥他们的宗教组织感到幻想破灭，甚至怀有敌意。然而，迄今为止的研究并未探讨性少数群体对美国宗教传统的看法。本研究考察了女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋成年人（LGB）对宗教传统对 LGBT（女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别）群体的态度是友好/中立还是不友好的看法之间的差异。作者利用皮尤研究中心 2013 年对 LGBT 成年人的调查数据，进行了四项二元逻辑回归分析，分别考察了四个宗教传统——福音派新教、天主教会、犹太教和主流新教——是否普遍被视为对 LGBT 人群友好/中立或不友好。这项研究的结果提供了关于性少数群体对主要宗教传统看法的罕见见解，并表明性少数群体与宗教的关系复杂。
