Religious tradition among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by religious group
% of who strongly favor or favor 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% | 28% | 28% | < 1% | 15% | 1% | 1% | 13% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 2,272 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 30% | 22% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 2% | 22% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 12% | < 1% | 4,755 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 1% | 35% | 28% | < 1% | 7% | < 1% | 1% | 15% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 248 |
Not the word of God | 2% | 16% | 4% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 4% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 53% | 1% | 9,970 |
Other/don't know | 2% | 22% | 12% | 1% | 4% | < 1% | 2% | 21% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 26% | 2% | 1,463 |
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