The survey, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago in partnership with the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, interviewed 1,003 people between Sept. 9-12. Participants were asked about their views of religious exemption in medical care, hiring practices and businesses serving customers.
“Recent efforts by some state legislatures to expand religious exemptions from LGBTQ-inclusive non-discrimination laws are largely out of alignment with the views of most Americans,” study author Christy Mallory, legal director at the Williams Institute, said in a release shared with Becker’s on June 15. “More than 3 in 4 Americans now favor civil rights laws protecting LGBTQ people against religiously motivated discrimination.”
Here are four other findings:
- Women were more likely than men to oppose the use of religious beliefs to deny medical care to LGBTQ people; however, more than two-thirds of men opposed the use of religious beliefs to discriminate.
- In each racial group, more than 80 percent of respondents opposed allowing medical professionals to withhold care to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs.
- Ninety-two percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Republicans opposed religious-based discrimination in medical care.
- About two-thirds of Catholics and Protestant/Christians opposed the use of religious beliefs to discriminate against LGBTQ people in medical care.
