Views about homosexuality among blacks by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among blacks by views about homosexuality
% of blacks who say homosexuality…
Interpreting scripture | Should be accepted | Should be discouraged | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 45% | 48% | 4% | 4% | 1,668 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 61% | 32% | 5% | 2% | 828 |
Not the word of God | 74% | 20% | 4% | 2% | 578 |
Other/don't know | 46% | 35% | 13% | 6% | 221 |
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