An Analysis of Factors Affecting Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage: Do the Media Matter?

Lee, Tien‐Tsung; Hicks, Gary R.

doi:10.1080/00918369.2011.614906

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“…Consistent with other work on positive minority portrayals and prejudice reduction, this research generally affirms that exposure to positive (explicit or implicit) messages about homosexuality is associated with more general positive affect toward sexual minorities, as well as greater support of civil rights for sexual minorities (Bonds-Raacke et al 2007;Calzo and Ward 2009;Lee and Hicks 2011;Schiappa, Gregg, and Hewes 2006). This effect is accomplished via both the content of the media, but also through the implicit negotiation of group identities and boundaries.…”

Section: Media Consumption and Public Opinionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Seeing is Believing: Religious Media Consumption and Public Opinion toward Same-Sex Relationships

Perry¹,

Schnabel²

2018

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An extensive literature demonstrates that religion is a key determinant of Americans' social and political attitudes. This literature, however, has neglected an important measure of everyday religious practice, preference, and socialization: religious media consumption. We take a key social issue where attitudes have been shown to be largely shaped by religion-same-sex relationships-as an example to determine whether religious media consumption predicts social attitudes net of the measures typically included in the literature on religion and attitudes: affiliation, practice, and literalism. We draw on data from three national surveys, each of which contains different measures of religious media consumption and attitudes toward various samesex relationships: the 1998 General Social Survey, 2005 Baylor Religion Survey, and 2012 Portraits of American Life Study. Both multivariate and propensity score matching analyses demonstrate that religious media consumption independently predicts lower support for same-sex relationships in all three surveys. We propose that religious media consumption is a key measure of religious practice, preference, and socialization that shapes Americans' views toward social issues through both direct messages and by fortifying subcultural boundaries.Key Words: attitudes, public opinion, religion, media, sexuality, same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, propensity score matching The publisher's version of this paper can be found at DOI: 0.1177/2329496516686616 Citation: Perry, Samuel L. and Landon Schnabel. 2017. "Seeing is Believing: Religious Media Consumption and Public Opinion toward Same-Sex Relationships." Social Currents 4(5): 462-481.* Both authors contributed equally to the work, and their names are listed alphabetically. We are grateful to Brian Powell for the insightful feedback on an earlier draft. We would also like to thank the editors and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Direct correspondence to Landon Schnabel, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 744 Ballantine Hall, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Email: lpschnab@indiana.edu.Religious Media and Same-Sex Relationships 2 An extensive literature demonstrates that religion is a key determinant of Americans' social and political attitudes. This literature, however, has neglected an important measure of everyday religious practice, preference, and socialization: religious media consumption. We take a key social issue where attitudes have been shown to be largely shaped by religion-same-sex relationships-as an example to determine whether religious media consumption predicts social attitudes net of the measures typically included in the literature on religion and attitudes: evangelical affiliation, religious practice (attendance, prayer, and scripture reading frequency), and view of the Bible.Conservative religious identification and commitment are strongly related to public opinion toward gay and lesbian family relationships in the United States

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Section: Media Consumption and Public Opinionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Seeing is Believing: Religious Media Consumption and Public Opinion toward Same-Sex Relationships

Perry¹,

Schnabel²

2018

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“…In support of this, Lee and Hicks (2011) found that reading blogs on Internet and considering television the primary form of entertainment were positively associated with support towards same-sex marriage among adults from the United States. Furthermore, although Calzo and Ward (2009) did not find an overall effect of television viewing, they did find specific (positive or negative) effects depending on the gender or the demographic group.…”

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Homophobic Attitudes and Associated Factors Among Adolescents: A Comparison of Six Latin American Countries

Chaux

León

2016

Journal of Homosexuality

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Homophobic attitudes are still very common in the world, although there are large differences between countries. This study analyzed the responses of almost 30,000 8th- and 9th-grade students from six countries who participated in the Latin American component of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study. Higher levels of homophobia were found in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Paraguay than in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Homophobic attitudes were positively associated with being male, having lower levels of empathy, spending less time with friends and the media, having aggressive attitudes, and being more religious, in particular non-Catholic Christian.

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“…For years, studies have been carried out on attitudes toward homosexuality, toward individuals with a homosexual sexual orientation, and toward their social rights (Herek, 2002;Lee & Hicks, 2011;Schwartz, 2010). The relationship between beliefs about the etiology of the homosexual sexual orientation and the rejection of gay men and lesbians has been studied by researchers from the point of view of attribution theory (Haider-Markel & Joslyn, 2008).…”

Section: Department Of Psychology University Of Valenciamentioning

confidence: 99%

Etiology of Homosexuality and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parenting: A Randomized Study

Frías-Navarro

Monterde-i-Bort

Pascual-Soler

et al. 2013

The Journal of Sex Research

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Attribution theory suggests the hypothesis that heterosexuals' attitudes toward homosexual sexual orientation will be more negative when homosexuality is attributed to controllable causes. Our randomized study analyzed (a) whether beliefs about the genetic or environmental etiology of the homosexual sexual orientation can be immediately modified by reading a text and (b) the causal effect of attributions about the controllability (environmental etiology) or noncontrollability (genetic etiology) of homosexual sexual orientation on the rejection of same-sex parenting and their social rights. The sample was composed of 190 Spanish university students with a mean age of 22.07 years (SD = 8.46). The results show that beliefs about the etiology of the sexual orientation could be modified by means of a written text. Furthermore, participants who believed that sexual orientation had a genetic etiology showed greater support for social rights and less rejection of same-sex parenting. However, the effects were detected only when there was a traditional opposition to the family with same-sex parenting. When the opposition was normative, the effect was not statistically significant. Our results can be useful in planning variables for intervention programs designed to foster tolerance toward and normality of sexual diversity.

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An Analysis of Factors Affecting Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage: Do the Media Matter?

Cited by 54 publications

References 39 publications

Seeing is Believing: Religious Media Consumption and Public Opinion toward Same-Sex Relationships

Seeing is Believing: Religious Media Consumption and Public Opinion toward Same-Sex Relationships

Homophobic Attitudes and Associated Factors Among Adolescents: A Comparison of Six Latin American Countries

Etiology of Homosexuality and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parenting: A Randomized Study

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