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% of adults who say homosexuality should be accepted who say the holy scripture is…
Religious denomination | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 41% | 36% | 2% | 16% | 5% | 238 |
Assemblies of God | 51% | 36% | 1% | 8% | 3% | 110 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 28% | 52% | 3% | 14% | 3% | 212 |
Churches of Christ | 31% | 45% | 3% | 17% | 5% | 172 |
Episcopal Church | 6% | 32% | < 1% | 53% | 9% | 414 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 9% | 46% | 2% | 36% | 7% | 467 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 31% | 41% | 3% | 19% | 7% | 284 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 9% | 27% | 1% | 49% | 14% | 107 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 28% | 49% | 3% | 15% | 6% | 231 |
National Baptist Convention | 60% | 25% | < 1% | 11% | 4% | 228 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 33% | 50% | 3% | 9% | 5% | 228 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 17% | 25% | 1% | 48% | 9% | 1,414 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 8% | < 1% | 83% | 6% | 2,509 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 15% | 43% | 3% | 30% | 11% | 288 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 42% | 36% | 2% | 15% | 5% | 515 |
Spiritual but not religious | 2% | 10% | < 1% | 76% | 12% | 103 |
Unitarian | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 86% | 8% | 157 |
United Church of Christ | 9% | 35% | < 1% | 43% | 14% | 190 |
United Methodist Church | 15% | 46% | 2% | 28% | 8% | 986 |
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