Importance of religion in one's life among who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by importance of religion
% of who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage who say religion is…
Interpreting scripture | Very important | Somewhat important | Not too important | Not at all important | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 89% | 9% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 6,782 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 74% | 22% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | 4,073 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 84% | 12% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 554 |
Not the word of God | 28% | 34% | 20% | 17% | 1% | 1,584 |
Other/don't know | 60% | 26% | 7% | 5% | 2% | 709 |
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