Interpreting scripture among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by interpretation of scripture
% of who strongly favor or favor gay marriage who say the holy scripture is…
Religious tradition | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Buddhist | 3% | 9% | 1% | 75% | 11% | 231 |
Catholic | 19% | 35% | 2% | 36% | 7% | 4,011 |
Evangelical Protestant | 31% | 43% | 3% | 16% | 7% | 2,227 |
Hindu | 5% | 20% | < 1% | 68% | 7% | 126 |
Historically Black Protestant | 46% | 31% | 2% | 15% | 7% | 740 |
Jewish | 3% | 20% | 1% | 69% | 7% | 689 |
Mainline Protestant | 13% | 37% | 1% | 39% | 10% | 3,464 |
Mormon | 32% | 44% | 2% | 18% | 3% | 155 |
Muslim | 25% | 39% | 8% | 19% | 9% | 105 |
Orthodox Christian | 13% | 34% | 3% | 37% | 14% | 105 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 5% | 9% | < 1% | 80% | 6% | 5,996 |
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