Racial and ethnic composition among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by race/ethnicity
% of adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged who identify as…
Interpreting scripture | White | Black | Asian | Latino | Other/Mixed | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 65% | 17% | 2% | 13% | 3% | 5,707 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 73% | 11% | 2% | 11% | 4% | 2,944 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 75% | 11% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 437 |
Not the word of God | 61% | 12% | 7% | 15% | 4% | 1,120 |
Other/don't know | 60% | 17% | 6% | 14% | 3% | 512 |
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