{"id":9547,"date":"2020-09-28T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/religiously-unaffiliated-people-more-likely-than-those-with-a-religion-to-lean-left-accept-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:30","slug":"religiously-unaffiliated-people-more-likely-than-those-with-a-religion-to-lean-left-accept-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/09\/28\/religiously-unaffiliated-people-more-likely-than-those-with-a-religion-to-lean-left-accept-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Religiously unaffiliated people more likely than those with a religion to lean left, accept homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A man holds a sign depicting the Spanish flag and calling for nonreligious education during the 2013 Madrid Gay Pride Parade. (Gonzalo Arroyo via Getty Images)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most people around the world identify with a religion<\/a> or religious group. The rest, an estimated 16% of the global population in 2020, are religiously unaffiliated<\/a>, meaning they identify as atheists, agnostics or describe their religion as \u201cnothing in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In many countries, being religiously unaffiliated is linked to certain social and political views. For example, in some countries, religiously unaffiliated adults \u2013 a group also known as religious \u201cnones\u201d \u2013 are more likely to express accepting views of homosexuality<\/a>, less likely to prefer traditional gender roles in marriages, and more likely to identify with the political left than are adults who identify with a religion, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey included 34 countries, 18 of which had samples of religiously unaffiliated adults that were large enough to be analyzed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most of these 18 countries, religiously unaffiliated adults were more likely than those who identify with a religion to say homosexuality should be accepted by society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, in South Korea, 60% of religious \u201cnones\u201d say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared with 30% of religiously affiliated adults who say the same. Significant gaps also occur in Slovakia (34 percentage points), the United States (22 points), the Czech Republic (19 points) and even Russia (15 points), where acceptance of homosexuality is far less widespread across society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>