Why Is the Election Missing Culture War Issues?

Although the leading presidential candidates haven't engaged culture war issues, the battles over LGBT rights versus religious freedom show no signs of abating in courtrooms, state legislatures or on college campuses. But PRRI's study showed that even in those ongoing conflicts, majorities of religious Americans favor LGBT nondiscrimination laws over religious objectors.

"With the exception of white evangelical Protestants, majorities of every major religious group — including 68 percent of white mainline Protestants, 68 percent of black Protestants, 63 percent of Catholics, 77 percent of non-Christian religious Americans and 74 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans — oppose allowing small business owners to deny service to gay and lesbian individuals on the basis of … religious beliefs," PRRI reported.