Fewer Americans believe AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.
According to the Public Religion Research Institute, “fourteen percent of Americans agree with the idea that AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior, while 81 percent disagree. In 1992, more than twice as many Americans (36 percent) agreed that AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior, while fewer than 6-in-10 (57 percent) disagreed.”
The belief still shows up among nearly one quarter of white evangelical Protestants and Hispanic Protestants, according to the study in the American Journal of Public Health.
