"Gays are not Godless" reveals new survey

Bess writes: A new survey has revealed (though why the question of faith should be in doubt per se is bewildering) that six out of 10 homosexuals and lesbians say faith is important to them.
Nine thousand two hundred and thirty two were interviewed between January 2007 and November 2008 by the Barna Group, a California-based research company.
“People who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic, Christian bashers are not working with the facts," says George Barna, founder of the Barna Group, which is California-based.
"A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today," he says in this report published by Pew Forum.
However, and this raises interesting questions – the survey also showed that more heterosexual adults are open about faith than homosexuals, such as that 72 per cent of heterosexual adults admit faith is important compared to 60 per cent of homosexuals, and that 85 per cent of “straight adults” say they are Christian as compared to 70 per cent of “gay” adults.
Does this reflect discomfort with the Christian Church’s traditional ban on homosexual practise if not orientation? However, it might be argued that the prejudices that once trenchantly accompanied this ban on homosexual acts are now vanishing. Or is there a stigma in some homosexual communities about admitting to Christian belief? If so, why?