Parent of children under 18 among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by parental status

% of adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA28%72%181
Assemblies of God32%68%320
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints40%60%375
Churches of Christ27%73%294
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)13%87%140
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)26%74%475
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod20%80%188
National Baptist Convention22%78%197
Nondenominational charismatic36%64%109
Nondenominational evangelical41%59%410
Nothing in particular (religion important)29%71%432
Nothing in particular (religion not important)23%77%312
Presbyterian Church (USA)8%92%108
Southern Baptist Convention27%73%1,186
United Methodist Church23%77%519
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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