Views about human evolution 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 human evolution
% of adults who say homosexuality should be accepted who say humans…
Religious denomination | Evolved; due to natural processes | Evolved; due to God's design | Evolved; don't know how | Always existed in present form | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 25% | 35% | 2% | 34% | 4% | 238 |
Assemblies of God | 13% | 40% | 2% | 42% | 4% | 110 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 20% | 38% | 1% | 36% | 5% | 212 |
Churches of Christ | 30% | 38% | 2% | 29% | 1% | 172 |
Episcopal Church | 48% | 33% | 8% | 9% | 2% | 414 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 28% | 45% | 4% | 21% | 2% | 467 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 23% | 39% | 1% | 34% | 3% | 284 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 35% | 45% | 6% | 12% | 1% | 107 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 24% | 38% | 2% | 32% | 3% | 231 |
National Baptist Convention | 16% | 37% | 4% | 40% | 3% | 228 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 8% | 39% | 1% | 48% | 4% | 228 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 40% | 26% | 6% | 26% | 2% | 1,414 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 73% | 11% | 4% | 10% | 2% | 2,509 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 40% | 34% | 3% | 21% | 3% | 288 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 21% | 33% | 3% | 41% | 3% | 515 |
Spiritual but not religious | 39% | 35% | 6% | 14% | 6% | 103 |
Unitarian | 78% | 9% | 6% | 5% | 1% | 157 |
United Church of Christ | 44% | 26% | 4% | 21% | 6% | 190 |
United Methodist Church | 28% | 38% | 5% | 26% | 4% | 986 |
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