Religious tradition 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 religious group
% of who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 13% | 53% | < 1% | 12% | 1% | 1% | 11% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 6,782 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 25% | 35% | < 1% | 6% | 2% | 1% | 16% | 6% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 4,073 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 14% | 46% | < 1% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 15% | 4% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 5% | 1% | 554 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 26% | 14% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | 15% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | < 1% | 33% | 1% | 1,584 |
Other/don't know | < 1% | 25% | 24% | 1% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 17% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 17% | < 1% | 709 |
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