2024/04/17 by G. Tyler Lefevor, Sydney A. Sorrell, Kelsy Burke +1 · 6 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Gender Politics and Representation #Gender studies #Homosexuality #Law #Lesbian #Narrative #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Religion and Society Interactions #Religiosity #Religious identity #Sexual minority #Social psychology #Sociology #Transgender #Variation (astronomy)
paper · doi:10.1111/jssr.12918
published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 63(3), 695-715 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2024/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/21
Abstract With a nationally representative, repeated cross‐sectional sample of over 250,000 Americans from 2016 to 2019, we investigate the role that religious and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) 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.