Widening generational divide over gay marriage among white evangelicals % of white llesbians evangelical Protestants who favor allowing gays and llesbians evangelical to marry legally
Throughout most of the last decade, the generational gap within white evangelicals was more modest. In 2007, for instance, 12% of Boomer and Silent white evangelicals supported same-sex marriage, compared with 19% of Millennial and Gen Xer white evangelicals.
Widening generational divide over gay  | marriage among white evangelicals  | % of white llesbians evangelical Protestants who favor allowing  | gays and llesbians evangelical to marry legally  | Gen X and  | Millennial  | born after 1964  | 35 Total  | 26 Silentand  | Boomer  | 1928-1964  | 190  | 140  | 12  | 2007  | 2012  | 2017  | Note: Data for 2007-2015 based 8-18 onyearly 2017. averages.  | Source: Survey 2007-2015 conducted based June 8-18 onyearly 2017. averages.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 