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PRRI in the News: “For Catholics, Open Attitudes on Gay Issues”

Austin Considine posted a new article over at the New York Times today, in which he cites the portrait on Catholic attitudes on gay and lesbian issues we released last month. Check it out:

Last month, the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit group, reported that 74 percent of American Catholics surveyed supported the rights of same-sex couples to marry or form civil unions (43 percent and 31 percent, respectively). The telephone survey asked more than 3,000 adults to choose among three options: whether gay couples should be allowed to marry, should be allowed to form civil unions or should receive no legal recognition. By comparison, 16 percent of white evangelical Christians approved of same-sex marriages; 24 percent approved of civil unions. Among the general public, those rates climb to 37 and 27 percent, respectively — still lower than among Catholics.

You can read the full article here.

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