Sources of guidance on right and wrong 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 sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged 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 | 50% | 4% | 40% | 5% | 1% | 181 |
Assemblies of God | 85% | 1% | 12% | 2% | 1% | 320 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 74% | 2% | 18% | 2% | 3% | 377 |
Churches of Christ | 64% | 3% | 29% | 2% | 1% | 294 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 42% | 2% | 48% | 7% | 1% | 140 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 68% | 2% | 26% | 1% | 3% | 476 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 58% | 4% | 37% | 2% | < 1% | 190 |
National Baptist Convention | 62% | 7% | 28% | 2% | < 1% | 197 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 87% | 1% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | 109 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 85% | 2% | 11% | 1% | 1% | 414 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 37% | 7% | 45% | 9% | 2% | 433 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 9% | 6% | 70% | 13% | 1% | 312 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 47% | 2% | 45% | 1% | 4% | 109 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 71% | 3% | 23% | 2% | 2% | 1,191 |
United Methodist Church | 51% | 5% | 39% | 3% | 2% | 520 |
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