Young evangelicals split over same-sex marriage

It's not news that young people are more liberal on issues like
same-sex marriage, but a new poll charts just how deeply that split has
been carved into the white evangelical community, one of the most
socially conservative groups on the American religious landscape.

The
poll, released in late August by the Washington-based Public Religion
Research Institute, found that nearly half (44 percent) of young
evangelicals between the ages of 18 to 29 favor allowing gays and
lesbians to marry.

By contrast, the white evangelical community as
a whole (even counting those relatively liberal young adults) is
solidly opposed to same-sex marriage, by slightly more than 80 percent.