It's not religion that is driving the resurgent moral panic about LBGTQ people in the USA. You don't get a 15% shift beliefs in a year due to growing religious sentiment.
It's cynical opportunists trying to ride to power on populist sentiment by delegating and demonizing an outgroup.
Fuck every one of them.
"Republican billionaire donors are courting foreign despots like Putin, milking OPEC oil kleptocrats like Mohammed bin Salman, and inciting religious bigots to end American democracy.
And keep frying the planet."
The civil rights of women and trans are being sold to buy the votes of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals.
https://americanindependent.com/dark-money-conservative-anti-trans-movement/
https://newrepublic.com/post/173747/republicans-winning-war-lgbtq-rights
Carl T. Bergstrom
Nicole Parsons