Gender composition among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged by gender

% of adults who say homosexuality should be discouraged who are…

Religious traditionMenWomenSample size
Catholic60%40%1,696
Evangelical Protestant49%51%4,943
Historically Black Protestant46%54%793
Jehovah's Witness37%63%187
Mainline Protestant57%43%1,553
Mormon52%48%386
Muslim72%28%108
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")73%27%847
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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