Religious Service Attendance And Same-Sex Marriage

Evangelicals and other right-wing christians (and muslims) like to hide their bigotry behind their religion. It's the only excuse they can think of to oppose the equal rights guaranteed by our secular constitution. That's why this chart didn't surprise me very much. It shows that those who want to ban same-sex marriage are those who attend their religious services the most. That makes sense -- since it would be very hard to use religion as an excuse if you never, rarely, or only intermittently attended those services (which would make it too obvious that religion is just being used as an excuse for personal bigotry).

The chart was made from a recently released Gallup Poll. That poll was done between 2012 and 2014 of a random national sample of more than 4,000 adults. The numbers are the averages of the polls taken during that time period.

This survey determined that 54% of the total population supported legal same-sex marriage. That has since climbed to about 6 out of 10 Americans. Only one group had a significant majority (69%) opposing same-sex marriage -- those who attend religious services every week. The group that attends nearly every week aren't nearly as convinced same-sex marriage is bad. They are split right down the middle (48%-49%). All other groups showed a significant majority supporting legalization -- attending once a month (58%), seldom attending (65%), and those never attending (75%).