Pew Research; What do Americans Think is Morally Right or Morally Wrong

 This a pretty interesting study and I invite you to touch the link below and read the whole thing.  What is morality and where do we get them from?

Bible readers know the answer but as Americans discard the Bible, how do they determine what is right or wrong?

50 years ago it was illegal for men to have sex with other men in all 50 states.  Now the same behavior dignifies a parade and a whole month of Gay Pride.  How did we get there?

In Afghanistan the wealthy men keep little homeless boys dressed up as women and have sex with those boys.  It’s part of their culture.  So is it morally wrong?  Says who?  Why?

What about men who have sex with horses, goats or sheep?  If it’s culturally acceptable in some Muslim countries does that make it morally OK?  What if they aren’t hurting the animal?  Does that make it a victimless sport?  

Very interesting to watch our own culture go into the toilet because, “we all have our own truth!”

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Consequently, the finding that Americans think many things are morally permissible doesn’t mean the public thinks everything is morally permissible.

Indeed, there is one item on our list that most Americans do find immoral: having an extramarital affair. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say that married people having an affairis morally wrong.

For comparisons with what people in two dozen other countries consider moral and immoral, including Europeans’ views on extramarital affairs, read our international report on morality.

The American public is almost evenly split on two topics we asked about: pornography and abortion.

About half of U.S. adults say viewing pornography is morally wrong (52%), while nearly half feel it is not a moral issue (32%) or is morally acceptable (15%).

Likewise, 47% of Americans say having an abortion is morally wrong, while about half say an abortion is not a moral issue (31%) or is morally acceptable (21%).

Jump to: How men and women differ on these questions.

There has long been a partisan divide in the United States on whether abortion should be legal. Today, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are much more likely than Democrats and those who lean toward the Democratic Party to say that having an abortion is morally wrong(71% vs. 24%).

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/