Sources of guidance on right and wrong 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 sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Interpreting scripture | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 68% | 3% | 24% | 3% | 2% | 6,782 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 52% | 5% | 36% | 4% | 2% | 4,073 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 60% | 3% | 25% | 3% | 9% | 554 |
Not the word of God | 14% | 11% | 61% | 13% | 1% | 1,584 |
Other/don't know | 35% | 6% | 49% | 4% | 6% | 709 |
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