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Descriptive statistical analysis of the demographic and informational variables (gender, age, religious affiliation, level of education, number of family or friends that are homosexual or bisexual, degree of religiousness, and sexual orientation) included means (or most popular response), standard deviations, and frequency distributions. The sample consisted of 50 participants.

Gender. Equal numbers of males and females participated in the study (Table 1).

Age. The mean age was 2.27 with a standard deviation of 1.08. Most subjects were either aged 31-40 (30.6 percent) or 41-50 (30.6 percent), with 28.6 percent ages 18-30, 6.1 percent ages 51-60, and 4.1 percent ages 61 and older (Table 2).

Religious Affiliation. The most popular religious affiliation was Protestant. Regarding religious affiliation: 38.8 percent reported being Protestant, 26.5 percent reported other, 16.3 percent reported being Catholic, 16.3 percent reported being Muslim, and 2 percent reported being Jewish (Table 3).

Education Level. The most common education level was high school diploma or GED. Regarding education le

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tionship between homosexual attitudes and religious involvement which was found to be not significant at a .05 level (Table 9). Table 9 Correlation: Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Religious Involvement
Effects of Demographics on Homosexual Attitudes One-way ANOVA compared the means of homosexual attitude and gender, demonstrating significant results with a df of 1 and 48 and F = 7.41, significant at p = .009 (Table 10). Table 10 ANOVA for Effects of Gender on Homosexual Attitudes
One-way ANOVA compared the means of homosexual attitude and age, demonstrating not significant results with a df of 4 and 443 and F = .15, not significant at p = .962 (Table 11). Table 11 ANOVA for Effects of Age on Homosexual Attitude
One-way ANOVA compared the means of homosexual attitude and education, demonstrating not significant results with a df of 5 and 43 and F = .792, not significant at p = .561 (Table 12). Table 12 ANOVA for Effects of Education on Homosexual Attitude
Post Hoc Analysis The means of the significant findings related to effects of demographics on homosexual attitudes are as follows: The mean scores were highest for females (3.06), compared to males (2.7) (Table 13). Table 1
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