Sources of guidance on right and wrong 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 sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of who strongly favor or favor 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 | 42% | 7% | 41% | 8% | 1% | 2,272 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 27% | 12% | 53% | 7% | 2% | 4,755 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 34% | 6% | 45% | 5% | 10% | 248 |
Not the word of God | 5% | 20% | 56% | 17% | 2% | 9,970 |
Other/don't know | 14% | 14% | 56% | 9% | 6% | 1,463 |
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