Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say homosexuality should be accepted by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say homosexuality should be accepted by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say homosexuality should be accepted who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Religious denomination | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 32% | 8% | 53% | 6% | < 1% | 238 |
Assemblies of God | 48% | 8% | 42% | < 1% | 3% | 110 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 50% | 5% | 36% | 8% | 1% | 212 |
Churches of Christ | 34% | 13% | 48% | 4% | 1% | 172 |
Episcopal Church | 17% | 17% | 52% | 9% | 4% | 414 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 27% | 9% | 55% | 6% | 2% | 467 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 30% | 7% | 57% | 5% | 1% | 284 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 18% | 21% | 52% | 8% | < 1% | 107 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 30% | 12% | 51% | 6% | 1% | 231 |
National Baptist Convention | 39% | 4% | 50% | 5% | 2% | 228 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 56% | 10% | 30% | 3% | 1% | 228 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 12% | 15% | 60% | 10% | 3% | 1,414 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 18% | 62% | 16% | 2% | 2,509 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 32% | 17% | 40% | 8% | 3% | 288 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 40% | 7% | 48% | 3% | 1% | 515 |
Spiritual but not religious | 11% | 21% | 52% | 14% | 2% | 103 |
Unitarian | 4% | 30% | 40% | 22% | 5% | 157 |
United Church of Christ | 17% | 15% | 56% | 9% | 3% | 190 |
United Methodist Church | 29% | 10% | 52% | 7% | 2% | 986 |
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