{"id":1810,"date":"2009-04-06T19:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T03:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2009-04-06T19:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T03:03:02","slug":"biblical-literalism-correlates-with-thinking-extramarital-sex-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/biblical-literalism-correlates-with-thinking-extramarital-sex-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical literalism correlates with thinking extramarital sex is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Audacious Epigone<\/a> has a post up where the title says it all, Extramarital sex wrong? Gays and supporters of same sex marriage less likely to think so<\/a>. But I was curious how MARHOMO, attitudes toward gay marriage, stacked up against other independent variables in relation to XMARSEX, attitudes toward extramarital sex. Here is what XMARSEX is representing:<\/p>\n

What is your opinion about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than the marriage partner?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

1 – ALWAYS WRONG
\n2 – ALMOST ALWAYS WRONG
\n3 – SOMETIMES WRONG
\n4 – NOT WRONG AT ALL<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s the logit regression from the GSS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Logit Coefficients<\/th>\nTest That Each Coefficient = 0<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\nB<\/th>\nSE(B)<\/th>\nT-statistic<\/th>\nProbability<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
MARHOMO<\/th>\n-.166<\/td>\n.035<\/td>\n-4.706<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEX<\/th>\n-.371<\/td>\n.095<\/td>\n-3.905<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RACE<\/th>\n.046<\/td>\n.074<\/td>\n.626<\/td>\n.531<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
INCOME<\/th>\n-.079<\/td>\n.021<\/td>\n-3.764<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEGREE<\/th>\n.246<\/td>\n.039<\/td>\n6.358<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
POLVIEWS<\/th>\n-.111<\/td>\n.036<\/td>\n-3.105<\/td>\n.002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GOD<\/th>\n-.131<\/td>\n.036<\/td>\n-3.643<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RELIG<\/th>\n-.024<\/td>\n.026<\/td>\n-.918<\/td>\n.359<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BIBLE<\/th>\n.587<\/td>\n.075<\/td>\n7.821<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CHILDS<\/th>\n-.098<\/td>\n.033<\/td>\n-2.941<\/td>\n.003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
REGION<\/th>\n-.072<\/td>\n.018<\/td>\n-3.978<\/td>\n.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AGE<\/th>\n.006<\/td>\n.003<\/td>\n1.882<\/td>\n.060<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Constant<\/th>\n.204<\/td>\n.457<\/td>\n.447<\/td>\n.655<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Like my previous posts you can see attitudes about the Bible have a huge effect. Let’s look at how BIBLE and XMARSEX relate specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cells contain:
\n-Column percent
\n-Weighted N<\/td>\n		BIBLE<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1
\nWORD OF GOD<\/td>\n		2
\nINSPIRED WORD<\/td>\n		3
\nBOOK OF FABLES<\/td>\n		4
\nOTHER<\/td>\n		ROW
\nTOTAL<\/em><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
XMARSEX<\/th>\n1: ALWAYS WRONG<\/td>\n90.1<\/strong>
\n4,689<\/td>\n		80.3<\/strong>
\n6,096<\/td>\n		59.8<\/strong>
\n1,447<\/td>\n		71.4<\/strong>
\n118<\/td>\n		80.3<\/strong><\/em>
\n12,350<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2: ALMOST ALWAYS WRONG<\/td>\n5.2<\/strong>
\n272<\/td>\n		13.3<\/strong>
\n1,009<\/td>\n		23.0<\/strong>
\n556<\/td>\n		17.4<\/strong>
\n29<\/td>\n		12.1<\/strong><\/em>
\n1,865<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3: SOMETIMES WRONG<\/td>\n3.2<\/strong>
\n169<\/td>\n		5.2<\/strong>
\n396<\/td>\n		12.8<\/strong>
\n309<\/td>\n		8.3<\/strong>
\n14<\/td>\n		5.8<\/strong><\/em>
\n888<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4: NOT WRONG AT ALL<\/td>\n1.4<\/strong>
\n73<\/td>\n		1.2<\/strong>
\n94<\/td>\n		4.5<\/strong>
\n109<\/td>\n		2.8<\/strong>
\n5<\/td>\n		1.8<\/strong><\/em>
\n280<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
COL TOTAL<\/em><\/th>\n100.0<\/strong><\/em>
\n5,202<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
\n7,595<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
\n2,421<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
\n166<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
\n15,383<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Audacious Epigone has a post up where the title says it all, Extramarital sex wrong? Gays and supporters of same sex marriage less likely to think so. But I was curious how MARHOMO, attitudes toward gay marriage, stacked up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[227,54,226,225,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}