Interpreting scripture among Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious family among Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged by interpretation of scripture
% of Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged who say the holy scripture is…
Religious family | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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Baptist Family (Mainline Trad.) | 58% | 23% | 5% | 8% | 6% | 231 |
Lutheran Family (Mainline Trad.) | 45% | 35% | 2% | 14% | 4% | 201 |
Methodist Family (Mainline Trad.) | 46% | 34% | 4% | 9% | 7% | 547 |
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Mainline Trad.) | 41% | 32% | 4% | 15% | 9% | 146 |
Presbyterian Family (Mainline Trad.) | 42% | 30% | 3% | 17% | 7% | 142 |
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