Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Author ORCID Identifier

G. Tyler Lefevor https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-7306

Sydney A. Sorrell https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0662-7026

Kelsy Burke https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6302-4446

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

Publication Date

4-17-2024

Journal Article Version

Accepted Manuscript

First Page

1

Last Page

38

Abstract

With a nationally representative, repeated cross-sectional sample of over 250,000 Americans from 2016-2019, we investigate the role that religious and LGBT identities play in influencing Americans’ political attitudes, centering the narratives of religious LGBT Americans. We find that nearly half of LGBT Americans affiliate religiously. Logistic regressions show that identifying as religious is related to more conservative views on LGBT rights and abortion while identifying as LGBT is related to more liberal views on both of these issues. We failed to observe interaction effects, suggesting that religious affiliation influences LGBT individuals’ political views in a manner similar to the way it influences cisgender, heterosexual individuals’ views. Comparisons of the variation accounted for by religious or LGBT identities show that religious affiliation more frequently accounted for more variation in political views.

Comments

© 2024, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12918

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