Views about human evolution among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among who strongly favor or favor gay marriage by views about human evolution
% of who strongly favor or favor gay marriage who say humans…
Religious tradition | Evolved; due to natural processes | Evolved; due to God's design | Evolved; don't know how | Always existed in present form | Don't know | Sample size |
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Buddhist | 68% | 14% | 5% | 12% | 1% | 231 |
Catholic | 39% | 32% | 4% | 22% | 3% | 4,011 |
Evangelical Protestant | 19% | 41% | 3% | 35% | 3% | 2,227 |
Hindu | 73% | 14% | 3% | 10% | < 1% | 126 |
Historically Black Protestant | 21% | 37% | 2% | 37% | 3% | 740 |
Jewish | 69% | 16% | 5% | 9% | 1% | 689 |
Mainline Protestant | 37% | 34% | 6% | 20% | 3% | 3,464 |
Mormon | 27% | 35% | 1% | 34% | 3% | 155 |
Muslim | 37% | 29% | 4% | 28% | 1% | 105 |
Orthodox Christian | 45% | 23% | 5% | 22% | 5% | 105 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 71% | 13% | 4% | 11% | 2% | 5,996 |
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