Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
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Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 1. Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues Key Findings from PRRI’s Recent Report Release Date: March 23, 2011
- 2. Sources of Data Public Religion Research Institute Surveys Pre-election American Values Survey, September 2010 Post-election American Values Survey, November 2010 Religion & Politics Tracking Survey, September, December 2010 PRRI/RNS Religion News Poll, October 2010 California Proposition 8 Survey, July 2010 Full Report can be found at: http://www.publicreligion.org/research/?id=509. 2 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 3. Sources of Data Other Surveys National Election Pool, Exit Polls, 1982-2010. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Religious Landscape Survey, 2007. Pew Research Center, Religion & Politics Survey, 2009. Pew Research Center, Post-election Survey, November 2010. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Michigan Catholics Survey, 2010. 3 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 4. National Sources of DataMethodology & Sample Sizes 4 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 5. Social Acceptance of Gay and Lesbian Relationships 5 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 6. Catholic Perceptions of Groups Facing Discrimination in Society 6 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 7. Views on Selected Gay and Lesbian Issues 7 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 8. Views on Same-sex Marriage & Civil Unions 8 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 9. Worship Attendance Among Catholics 9 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 10. Support for Same-sex Marriage, Civil Unions by Worship Attendance 10 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
- 11. Views about Sexual Relations between Adults of the Same Gender 11 Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues
Editor's Notes
- Give ranges, note much of the report based on PRRI’s AVS, which had over 650 Catholics in the sample.
- Other non-CatholicChristians = 48% support (n=516).
- GP ranks these groups in same order with exception that Muslims are slightly higher than Hispanics (58% vs. 52% respectively). GP on Gays & Lesbians = 64%.
- Question wording:ADOPTION: "Allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children”ENDA: "Laws that would protect gay and lesbian people against job discrimination”DADT: "Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military"
- Note: Less often includes a few times a month, seldom, and never categories.
- While there are important divisions about the issue of marriage, there is less division over the issue of some kind of legal recognition for marriage. Only 3-in-10 of the most frequently attending Catholics say there should be no legal recognition of any kind for a gay couples’ relationship.This is perhaps not so surprising given the overwhelming support for social acceptance we saw in the first slide.
- Compared to the general public and most other religious groups, Catholics are less likely to have negative moral evaluations of “homosexual behavior.” Among the general public, nearly half (49%) say that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, compared to about 1-in-10 (9%) who say it is morally acceptable. Roughly one-third (35%) say they do not consider it a moral issue. Less than 4-in-10 (39%) Catholics say homosexual behavior is morally wrong, compared to 12% who say it is morally acceptable. A plurality (41%) of Catholics say they do not consider homosexual behavior to be a moral issue (Pew Research Center, Religion & Politics Survey, 2009).