Sources of guidance on right and wrong among who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition 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
Religious tradition | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Catholic | 43% | 7% | 40% | 8% | 2% | 2,547 |
Evangelical Protestant | 71% | 3% | 22% | 2% | 2% | 5,738 |
Historically Black Protestant | 57% | 5% | 33% | 3% | 2% | 994 |
Jehovah's Witness | 82% | < 1% | 10% | 3% | 5% | 188 |
Jewish | 46% | 11% | 38% | 4% | 1% | 119 |
Mainline Protestant | 44% | 6% | 44% | 3% | 2% | 2,103 |
Mormon | 74% | 3% | 18% | 2% | 4% | 468 |
Muslim | 50% | 5% | 37% | 7% | 2% | 117 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 21% | 8% | 57% | 12% | 2% | 1,117 |
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