Educational distribution among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by educational group

% of adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic52%27%14%8%1,685
Evangelical Protestant47%33%14%7%4,905
Historically Black Protestant51%36%8%5%786
Jehovah's Witness66%22%8%3%185
Mainline Protestant50%29%14%8%1,543
Mormon21%42%26%10%386
Muslim49%17%20%14%108
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")61%26%8%5%842
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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