How religious freedom’s PR crisis affects the Equality Act debate
Posted on AllSides March 5th, 2021
From The Center
Amid growing calls to advance LGBTQ rights, conservative religious freedom advocates are scrambling to avoid potential fallout for people of faith.
In so doing, they’ve been forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: Many Americans see faith-based protections in the public square as a bad thing.
A recent survey from Public Religion Research Institute found that only 22% of U.S. adults support exempting business owners with religious objections to some LGBTQ rights from anti-discrimination rules.
Twice that many Americans (44%) feel their own rights are threatened by other people’s religious liberty...
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