Digital Journal Research by a British dating agency says practicing Christians and Muslims who are gay are the most likely to struggle with their sexuality.
Monday July 25, 2005 In the city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, two gay teens have been executed. One was 18 and the other is thought to have been 16 or 17. First they were lashed 228 times, though. Not long after the execution there were howls of outrage from the Iranian parliament - not at the execution itself, but at the temerity of journalists to report it.
Coming out is still one of the biggest hurdles, in spite of growing acceptance of gay people, says Gay UK News. The research was carried out by the free gay dating website ManCentral.com, which questioned 5,000 of its users.
They were asked what was most problematic for them. “Of all the religious denominations, Islam and Christianity were found to be the most troublesome for gay and bisexual men,” says Gay UK News. Thirty-nine percent of gay Muslim men said their religion was their biggest worry, according to the report, and 22 percent of gay Catholics agreed.
“Intriguingly, 75 percent of gay Hindus feared their family rather than their religion[;] however, this may be a result of the importance of family within Hinduism.” Four percent of atheist members, and 9 percent of agnostics claimed that religion had been problematic when they were coming to terms with their sexuality.
“Sadly,” says the story, “it would seem that, for a portion of the gay and bisexual community, the only resolution to their turmoil is to abandon religion altogether.”
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