teachings Relatively few Mexican and Catholics contraception agree with church teachings on divorce and contraception % of Catholics in Mexico who say
At the same time, Catholics in Mexico do not uniformly agree with Catholic Church teachings. Half of Mexican Catholics think gays and lesbians should be permitted to legally marry (a right that exists in certain parts of the country), compared with 42% who side with church policy and oppose gay marriage. Mexican Catholics lean in the opposite direction when homosexuality is framed in terms of morality: 55% say homosexual behavior is morally wrong (compared with 21% who say it is morally acceptable and 17% who say it is not a moral issue).
Even fewer Catholics in Mexico say sex outside marriage (45%), divorce (32%) and contraception (28%) are morally wrong – all of which are behaviors seen as sinful by the Catholic Church. In fact, most Mexican Catholics say the church should allow contraceptive use (66%) and divorce (60%), roughly similar to the shares of U.S. Hispanic Catholics who support these changes to church teachings.
teachings Relatively few Mexican and Catholics contraception agree with church  | teachings on divorce and contraception  | % of Catholics in Mexico who say  | 55%  | homosexuality is morally wrong  | 42  | they oppose gay marriage  | sex outside of marriage is morally wrong  | 45  | 32  | divorce is morally wrong  | 28  | contrace ption is morally wrong  | Source: Survey conducted October 2013 to February 2014 in 18 Latin American  | countries Survey and Puerto Rico.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 