New Survey Shows College-Age Voters Support LGBT Equality

How do moral and religious values shape the views and voting preferences of America’s young adults? This month, Public Religion Research Institute and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, released their new study, A Generation In Transition. The survey presents the views of college-age Millenials, age 18-24, on a range of issues including social and economic inequality as well as their feelings about present-day Christianity.

Some key findings include evidence of significant levels of movement from religious affiliations of their childhoods to their present religion. Millenials identifying as Catholic dropped by 8 points, from a childhood affiliation of 28% to only 20% today; those who identified as mainline Protestant dropped by 5 points, from a childhood affiliation of 18% to 13% today; and those who identified as Evangelicals dropped by 1 point, from a childhood affiliation of 13% (White Evangelical Protestant) and 11% (Black Protestant) to 12% and 10% respectively. Most significantly was a 14 point increase in those who currently identify as “religiously unaffiliated” from a childhood affiliation of 11% to 25% today.

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