Millennial Evangelicals More Liberal Than Elders, but More Conservative Than Peers: Pew
Drawing from their 2014 Religious Landscape Study, Pew noted in an article published Thursday that millennial evangelicals are more liberal on issues like same-sex marriage, environmentalism and immigration than older generations of evangelicals.
"Evangelical Protestants who are millennials (those born from 1981 to 1996) are considerably more likely than older evangelical Protestants to support same-sex marriage and to say homosexuality should be accepted by society," noted Pew.
"In addition, younger evangelicals are more likely than their older co-religionists to favor stricter environmental laws and to say immigration makes the United States better. Similarly, evangelical Protestant millennials are more likely to favor government aid to the poor and to prefer a bigger government with more services over a smaller one with fewer services."...
