Views about homosexuality among Catholics by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among Catholics by views about homosexuality
% of Catholics 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 | 57% | 35% | 3% | 4% | 1,545 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 69% | 23% | 4% | 4% | 2,774 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 56% | 26% | 7% | 11% | 205 |
Not the word of God | 83% | 12% | 3% | 2% | 2,068 |
Other/don't know | 69% | 17% | 7% | 7% | 610 |
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