Views about homosexuality among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally by views about homosexuality
% of adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally who say homosexuality…
Religious denomination | Should be accepted | Should be discouraged | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 42% | 47% | 7% | 3% | 233 |
Assemblies of God | 19% | 75% | 4% | 3% | 336 |
Church of God in Christ | 30% | 60% | 6% | 5% | 110 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 31% | 60% | 5% | 4% | 201 |
Churches of Christ | 22% | 70% | 4% | 4% | 249 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 34% | 62% | 3% | 1% | 118 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 22% | 72% | 2% | 3% | 473 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 39% | 56% | 3% | 2% | 190 |
National Baptist Convention | 51% | 42% | 4% | 3% | 301 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 25% | 67% | 2% | 5% | 101 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 21% | 73% | 2% | 5% | 359 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 49% | 41% | 3% | 7% | 436 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 21% | 72% | 3% | 3% | 1,157 |
United Methodist Church | 34% | 57% | 5% | 4% | 393 |
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