Tag Archives: surveys

Quote Of The Day: Mark Regnerus

“There is good news in Tuesday’s release from the CDC’s National Health Information Survey. No, it’s not the revelation that the gay and lesbian population may be slightly smaller — 1.6 percent — than many scholars have believed; population-based surveys tend to fluctuate. The results of the report make sense to me, and since others have already described them, I …

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Feds: 2.3% Are Gay Or Bisexual

Via the Washington Post: Less than 3 percent of the U.S. population identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday in the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation. The National Health Interview Survey, which is the government’s premier tool for annually assessing Americans’ health and behaviors, found that 1.6 percent …

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Pew Issues Global Morality Survey

Pew Research has issued a report on a “global morality survey” they conducted last spring. As you can see above, homosexuality averaged out to be somewhat more acceptable than adultery and gambling in the 40 countries surveyed. In the USA: An overwhelming majority of Americans said extramarital affairs were morally unacceptable. But fewer Americans said that abortion was unacceptable (49%), …

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NFL Survey: 86% Of Players Say They Are OK With Openly Gay Teammates

ESPN surveyed 51 active NFL players to ask them the four questions seen above. The NFL has about 1700 active players, so the sample is rather small. Forty-four players said a teammate’s sexual orientation didn’t matter to them, and 39 said they would be comfortable showering around a gay teammate. But 32 players said they had teammates or coaches who …

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Vatican Survey: Vast Majority Of Catholics Reject The Rules Of The Vatican

According to a new Vatican survey, the “vast majority” of Catholics in Germany and Switzerland reject the Vatican’s rules about “contraception, sexual morality, gay unions and divorce.” The Vatican took the unusual step of commissioning the surveys ahead of a major meeting of bishops that Pope Francis has called for October to discuss family issues. The poll was sent last …

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SURVEY: 38% Say They’ve Done Things Because God Told Them To

YouGov reports on their latest survey: 38% of Americans say that they have done something because God told them to, while more than half of people who believe in God say that the deity sometimes controls weather and disasters. New research from YouGov suggests that many Americans believe God plays an active role in their lives. Out of the 76% …

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SURVEY: Gay Sites & Blogs Top List Of Media Choices For LGBT Consumers

eMarketer reports: A Community Marketing Inc. (CMI) survey conducted in June 2013 found that a substantial proportion of gay males and lesbians in the US had engaged in a variety of media activities over the seven days prior to the survey. The most common activity among the men and women polled was visiting LGBT sites and blogs, at 67% of …

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SURVEY: Top LGBT Brands For 2013

Via YouGov’s 2013 Brand Index: Falling out of the top 20 this year: iPad, Disneyland/Disney World, Apple, Advil, LG, Starbucks, Comedy Central, iPod, and Skype. Returning from last year: YouTube, Netflix, Samsung, Aleve, Subway, Target, Kindle, Ford, Android, iPhone and PBS. All 1,100+ brands in the YouGov BrandIndex brand universe were measured with the company’s buzz score, which asks respondents …

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Pew Research Survey: 48% Of LGBT Americans Have No Religious Affiliation

In another release from the latest survey from Pew Research, we learn the unsurprising news that gays are more than twice as likely to be atheists or religiously unaffiliated. When it comes to religion, the LGBT population has a distinctly different profile than the general public. Fewer LGBT adults have a religious affiliation. About half of LGBT respondents describe themselves …

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Pew Surveys 39 Countries

From the survey report: Attitudes about homosexuality have been fairly stable in recent years, except in South Korea, the United States and Canada, where the percentage saying homosexuality should be accepted by society has grown by at least ten percentage points since 2007. These are among the key findings of a new survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in …

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MAP: Racially Tolerant Nations

The Washington Post created the above map in response to a survey examined by Swedish economists. According to the survey responses, the least racially tolerant places are India, Jordan, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh. Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other …

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From An Official RNC Survey

John Aravosis parses an official survey from the Republican National Committee that was distributed last week: Important to note is that the RNC now lists gays along with other groups that are discriminated against, implicitly acknowledging that gay rights are civil rights (another sore point for the religious right). The final question, that’s perhaps the most surprising, is the RNC …

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20% Of Americans Have “No Religion”

According to a just-released biannual survey, the number of Americans who say they have “no religion” has almost quadrupled to 20% in the last 40 years. On American attitudes toward religion, UC Berkeley researchers found that 20 percent of a nationally representative group reported no religious preference. That’s a jump from 1990 when all but 8 percent of Americans polled …

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Bad News For Southern Baptists

Right Wing Watch reports that a survey just done by the polling arm of the Southern Baptists Convention shows broad support for LGBT rights across multiple issues. LifeWay Research, however, is focusing on the minority of respondents who believe that businesses should be able to turn away gay people. “Clearly, Americans believe the prerogative exists for individuals such as clergy …

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Gallup’s LGBT Survey: Colorized

Somebody over at Buzzfeed colorized Gallup’s survey.

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Gallup Ranks Gayest States

Gallup today issued the results of a poll conducted last year in which they asked over 200,000 people if they “personally identify” as LGBT.   As with all such self-disclosure surveys, the numbers are somewhat skewed by those who decline to out themselves to pollsters. The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) ranges from …

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Gallup Poll: Religiosity By State

Gallup recaps their findings: Overall, 40% of Americans nationwide were classified as very religious in 2012 — based on saying religion is an important part of their daily life and that they attend religious services every week or almost every week. Thirty-one percent of Americans were nonreligious, saying religion is not an important part of their daily life and that …

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RANKING: Bible-Minded Cities

From a national survey conducted by the Barna Group. “Individuals who report reading the Bible in a typical week and who strongly assert the Bible is accurate in the principles it teaches are considered to be Bible-minded.” Regionally, the South still qualifies as the most Bible-minded. The top ranking cities, where at least half of the population qualifies as Bible-minded, …

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20% Of Americans Claim “No Religion”

According to Pew Research, the number of Americans who say they have “no religion” in their lives is soaring. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released an analytic study today titled, Nones on the Rise, now that one in five Americans (19.6%) claim no religious identity. This group, called “Nones,” is now the nation’s second-largest category only to …

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