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Using data from a 1985 national sample of over 2300 adults, an index of attitudes toward homosexuality was created from 13 different questions. Respondents were more likely to hold antihomosexual attitudes if they were politically conservative, religious, older, less educated, male, married or widowed, or from the South. The effects of religiosity were less pronounced among black respondents. In addition, middle-aged respondents were more liberal than younger or older respondents if they were college educated or black.
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Seltzer, R. The social location of those holding antihomosexual attitudes. Sex Roles 26, 391–398 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291550
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291550