30% Back Refusing LGBT Customers Because Jesus

Just out from PRRI Polling:

Three in ten (30%) Americans say they think it should be permissible for a small business owner in their state to refuse to provide services to gay or lesbian people if doing so violates their religious beliefs, while two-thirds (67%) say they should not be allowed to do so.

Support for religiously based service refusals have increased across virtually every demographic group since 2014, when only 16% of Americans said small businesses should be allowed to refuse service to gay or lesbian customers because of religious beliefs, and 80% said they should not.[1]

Opinions on this issue, however, differ by gender, age, and race. More than one-third (34%) of men, compared to 26% of women, say businesses should be allowed to refuse services to gay or lesbian people. This is an increase from 2014, when only 19% of men and 14% of women agreed that businesses should be permitted to refuse to serve gays and lesbians on the basis of their religious beliefs.

Nearly seven in ten (69%) Americans favor laws that would protect LGBT people from discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing. #DemocraticDebate https://t.co/B3eJJFzr6u

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 27, 2019

Say small businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve African Americans, if doing so violates their religious beliefs:
22% White Evangelical Protestants
22% White Mainline Protestants
14% Catholics
14% Protestants
11% Religiously Unaffiliated https://t.co/k5e0MtAqLl

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 26, 2019

Support for religiously based service refusals targeting African Americans has more than doubled among white evangelical Protestants (up to 22% now from 8% in 2014) and white mainline Protestants (up to 22% from 5%). #ServiceRefusalsReport https://t.co/k5e0MtAqLl

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 26, 2019

% of Americans who say it’s okay for small business owners to refuse service to customers of various minorities:

Gay/lesbian customers: 30% (was 16% in 2014)

Atheists: 24% (15% in 2014)

Muslims: 22%

Jews: 19% (12% in 2014)

African-Americans: 15% (10% in 2014) https://t.co/NiTgfeDehO

— William Landay (@williamlanday) June 26, 2019

Support for denying service to Jews has roughly doubled among white evangelical Protestants (up to 24% from 12% in 2014), white mainline Protestants (up to 26% from 11%), and Catholics (up to 20% from 10%). #ServiceRefusalsReport https://t.co/k5e0MtAqLl

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 26, 2019

Say small businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve Muslims for religious reasons:
32% White Evangelical Protestants
28% White mainline Protestants
21% Nonwhite Protestants
19% Catholics
17% Religiously Unaffiliated#ServiceRefusalsReporthttps://t.co/k5e0MtAqLl

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 26, 2019

Say that small businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve gay or lesbian people for religious reasons:
42% White Evangelical Protestants
37% White Mainline Protestants
28% Catholics
26% Nonwhite Protestants
22% Religiously Unaffiliatedhttps://t.co/k5e0MtAqLl

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) June 25, 2019