Strange alliance: Why evangelicals, atheists and LGBTQ+ leaders should work together

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : For instance, religious freedom advocates taking up the cause of targeted LGBTQ+ individuals and humanists in Uganda, or for those communities to advocate for Christian converts in India.
41% : In addition, 100% of the countries imposing the death penalty on LGBTQ+ relationships also ranked high across the reports for humanist and Christian persecution.
37% : While each report takes a different approach and uses different methodologies, a commonality among all three communities is shared repression and brutality across 18 countries: Algeria, Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen.
13% : For instance, Iran, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, all designated by the U.S. State Department as Countries of Particular Concern for particularly severe violations of religious freedom, also impose the death penalty for consensual same-sex relations.

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