Views about abortion 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 views about abortion

% of adults who say homosexuality should be accepted who say abortion should be…

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA59%35%5%238
Assemblies of God50%46%4%110
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints45%54%1%212
Churches of Christ53%45%2%172
Episcopal Church84%14%2%414
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)73%26%1%467
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)55%43%1%284
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)76%23%1%107
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod62%37%1%231
National Baptist Convention68%27%4%228
Nondenominational evangelical46%52%2%228
Nothing in particular (religion important)63%33%4%1,414
Nothing in particular (religion not important)81%16%3%2,509
Presbyterian Church (USA)76%22%2%288
Southern Baptist Convention47%50%3%515
Spiritual but not religious75%21%4%103
Unitarian92%6%2%157
United Church of Christ81%13%6%190
United Methodist Church72%26%2%986
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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