From "The Advocate:" So says GLAAD's 2018 Accelerating Acceptance report, the findings of which were announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This is the fourth annual report of its kind and, troublingly, the first to show a decrease in LGBT acceptance.

An online survey (conducted by the Harris Poll from November 16 to 20, 2017) asked 2,160 Americans about their attitudes toward the LGBT community in seven different scenarios. The majority, 1,897, identified as non-LGBT.

In the prior year's report, 53 percent of Americans said they were "very" or "somewhat" comfortable with LGBT people. This year, that figure dropped to 49 percent.

This decline in support is not abstract; it hits home life. Around 27 percent of respondents said they would be uncomfortable discovering the LGBT identity of a family member, a dip from 30 percent in 2016. Likewise, 28 percent (a drop from last year's 31 percent) said they would feel uncomfortable finding out the LGBT identity of a physician or a child's teacher. John Gerzema, CEO of the Harris Poll, called this decline "an unseen casualty of a tumultuous year."

"In a single year, we've seen significant declines from what had been an increasingly accepting America to one now less supportive," Harris said in a statement from a GLAAD press release. "And this lost ground of acceptance cuts across many in American society." (To read the full article, Click Here.

NOTE from Ron: A lot of things have declined in the last year including respect for the rights of women and people of color. Among the year's causalities are common decency, public behavior, general intelligence, and religious charity.