i. Good quality of life and education reduces religiosity, who'da thunk it?
ii. They give two concrete examples of why decline of christianity is bad. They are *both* "I cant bash LGBTQ in a professional capacity anymore" .. Thats real classy.
They're really telling on themselves with how they can't find any examples of Christian "persecution" beside people getting in trouble for hating LGBT people.
If you're going to define your entire faith by hatred of gay people you shouldn't be surprised when people start to leave. Maybe try going out and getting arrested for trying to feed the poor or something?