It's Tuesday, August 26, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Sometimes you get some interesting numbers that come in a research report, in a poll, or a survey,

and the numbers basically tell you what you

already knew. But that doesn't mean the numbers aren't in themselves interesting. So I want to

turn to a report that was just released by the Pew Research Center. The headline is religion

and spirituality among LGBT Americans. So we're talking about lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gay Americans. And the thing

here is that it tells us that the vast majority of these LGBT-identified people in the poll

consider themselves spiritual, but as compared to the general American population, much less religious,

much less likely to have some kind of traditional religious identity.

And I said you already know this, because I think you already do. I think we all do.

And I think we can understand the reason. We can even understand causality here.

But let's just look at the result of the study. As Pew reports,

quote, Americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender tend to be less religious than those

who are not LGBT. In addition, adults who are lesbian, gay, are bisexual, have more negative

views than other U.S. adults do about religion, though many say religion plays some positive roles in society.

When it comes to questions about spirituality, such as whether human beings have a soul or a

spirit, the gaps between lesbian, gay, or bisexual adults, and other people tend to be

smaller.

Okay, so numbers, 48, roughly half of U.S. adults who are LGBT say they will identify with a religion.

That's just under 50%. And they describe themselves as Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or an adherent

of another religion. By comparison, 73% of non-LGBT Americans identify with a religion,

according to a center that's the Pew Research Center survey conducted

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