All the church-less heathens of San Francisco - By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Surely you already suspected? Surely if someone were to casually ask you, after they had just spent a few hours in church praying for your yoga pants-loving, $4 toast-eating, brunch line-waiting soul, which city in America has the lowest church attendance overall, your first response would most definitely not be, say, Atlanta.

Maybe Berkeley? Portland? Sure. But on the whole and as you can surely guess, San Francisco is, according to recent data anyway, the least church-going metropolis in the country, with fully 61% of area heathens never attending, not even once, in the past six months, if not more, if ever.

Are you surprised? You are not surprised. But you might want to make note of it as we race up to yet another grueling mud-fest known as a presidential election year.

Why? Because every single one of the various fear-mongers on the right will be using just this kind of data – that is, using you – to scare up votes. They will point out how straight white Christians are “under attack,” how the gays are (still) ruining America, independent-minded women (still) can’t handle their own sexuality, science is a massive hoax because only God can control the climate and, thanks to all the self-defined, godless perverts (that’s you) in places like SF, the little that remains of our once-great Christian nation is in tatters, and must be saved at all costs.

The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/04/29/all-the-church-less-heathens-of-san-francisco/

[riderinthestorm]

1. LOVE Mark Morford! Big K&R nt

[madokie]

2. Same here