"This harassment is made possible because of California's unconstitutional campaign finance disclosure rules as applied to ballot measure committees where even donors of as little as $100 must have their names, home addresses and employers listed on public documents. These disclosure rules violate the US constitution in numerous ways. We are standing up for our contributors to ensure that the harassment stops."

His Eminence Seraphim, Metropolitan of Peiraeus, a diocese of the Orthodox Church of Greece, said in a newspaper article that the homosexualist movement is "morally corrupt, obsessed with satisfying their psychopathological deviation and who have made a life value out of the faeces elimination tract."

Synthesis responded, saying, "Hate speech against gays, lesbians and transgender people in Greece takes place with impunity."

This means 52% of Christians do not agree with the doctrines many religions teach, particularly conservative denominations.

Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, calls the findings "a theological crisis for American evangelicals. They represent at best a misunderstanding of the Gospel and at worst a repudiation of the Gospel."

Mr. Delaney, who said he has found true happiness in ministry, six years of marriage and two children, is part of a contested movement in the United States: sexual conversion, or "reparative" therapy.

Conservative Judeo-Christian religious groups applaud the strategy for its adherence to traditional religious beliefs in a "sexually broken world" that has become too accepting of what they say is sin disguised as diversity.