Gallup Poll Social Series: Values and Beliefs 2011

According to Gallup research, the perceived moral acceptability of certain behaviors and social policies include (% morally acceptable / % morally wrong):

• Doctor-assisted suicide (45%/ 48%)
• Abortion (39%/ 51%)
• Having a baby outside marriage (54%/ 41%)
• Buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur (56%/ 39%)
• Gay or lesbian relations (56%/ 39%)
• Medical testing on animals (55%/ 38%)
• Sex between an unmarried man and woman (60%/ 36%)
• Cloning animals (32%/ 62%)
• Medical research using stem cels obtained from human embryos (62%/ 30%)
• Gambling (64%/ 31%)
• Pornography (30%/ 66%)
• Death penalty (65%/ 28%)
• Divorce (69%/ 23%)
• Suicide (15%/ 80%)
• Cloning humans (12%/ 84%)
• Polygamy (11%/ 86%)
• Married men and women having an affair (7%/ 91%)
  

By age groups, adults from 18 to 34 years are less supportive of the death penalty and medical testing on animals. On the animal issues, moral acceptance was noted by (%18 - 34 years/ % 35-54 years/ %55+ years):

• Cloning animals (36%/ 32%/ 28%)
• Use of animal fur for clothing (55%/ 57%/ 56%)
• Medical testing on animals (47%/ 57%/ 61%)