{"id":81928,"date":"2026-04-03T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81928"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:33:45","slug":"what-do-americans-consider-immoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/what-do-americans-consider-immoral\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Americans Consider Immoral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Pew Research Center:<\/p>\n<p>Across a wide range of issues, Americans express morally permissive views. Nearly all U.S. adults (96%) say that eating meat is either\u00a0<em>morally acceptable<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>not a moral issue<\/em>, and 91% take similar positions on using contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>75% express no moral objection to spanking children.<\/li>\n<li>63% have no moral problem with patients choosing to end their lives with the help of a doctor.<\/li>\n<li>60% have no moral qualms about homosexuality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are key new findings from two Pew Research Center surveys in spring 2025 about the morality of 15 behaviors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775205225\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"What Do Americans Consider Immoral?\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pew Research Center: Across a wide range of issues, Americans express morally permissive views. Nearly all U.S. adults (96%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}