Republicans And Democrats Differ On What Is Morally Acceptable
This article summarises a list of behaviors that Americans find acceptable and not acceptable.
Republicans find the death penalty, wearing fur clothing, and animal testing to be the most acceptable, while Democrats rate divorce, stem cell research, premarital sex, gambling, and the death penalty as most acceptable. Republicans and Democrats differ most significantly in their views of abortion and wearing fur clothing.
Summary of overall results by Issue (%morally acceptable/% morally wrong):
Animal related:
- Animal fur (62%32%)
- Medical testing on animals (61%,32%)
- Cloning animals (29%/65%)
- Cloning humans (8%/88%)
Democrats were 20 percentage points ahead of republicans in seeing fur as morally unacceptable
Democrats were 13 percentage points ahead of republicans in seeing medical testing on animals as morally unacceptable
Democrats were 3 percentage points ahead of republicans in seeing cloning animals as morally unacceptable
Democrats and republicans had no difference in seeing cloning humans as morally unacceptable
In conclusion, Democrats were ahead in all animal related issues with the exception of cloning human beings.
All Behaviors:
- Death penalty (71%/22%)
- Divorce (67%/24%)
- Animal fur (62%32%)
- Human Embryo Stem Cell Research (61%/30%)
- Medical testing on animals (61%,32%)
- Gambling (60%/34%)
- Sex between unmarried men and women (59%,37%)
- Having a baby outside of marriage (51%/43%)
- Doctor assisted suicide (50%/41%)
- Homosexual relations (44%/51%)
- Abortion (43%/44%)
- Cloning animals (29%/65%)
- Suicide (15%/78%)
- Cloning humans (8%/88%)
- Polygamy (5%/93%)
- Extramarital affairs (4%,93%)