Religious tradition among who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by sources of guidance on right and wrong (2014) Switch to: Sources of guidance on right and wrong among who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by religious group
% of who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage who are…
Sources of guidance on right and wrong | 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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Religion | < 1% | 14% | 54% | < 1% | 9% | 2% | 1% | 10% | 4% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 7,734 |
Philosophy/reason | 1% | 28% | 24% | 1% | 8% | < 1% | 2% | 16% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 15% | < 1% | 653 |
Common sense | < 1% | 22% | 28% | 1% | 9% | < 1% | 1% | 18% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 16% | < 1% | 4,388 |
Science | < 1% | 32% | 18% | 2% | 6% | 1% | 1% | 10% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 25% | < 1% | 595 |
Don't know | < 1% | 18% | 43% | < 1% | 7% | 4% | < 1% | 13% | 5% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 7% | 2% | 332 |
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