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Of 20 behaviors, extramarital affairs and human cloning are seen as the most morally wrong. Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable.

Americans have become more liberal on many moral and values issues over the past quarter century, but with some signs of a leveling off in recent years.

Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable of 19 issues measured, and extramarital affairs and cloning humans the most morally wrong.

A record-high 69% of Americans now say gambling is morally acceptable -- further evidence that the shift toward more liberal views on social issues continues.

While nearly half of Americans have purchased a state lottery ticket in the past 12 months, those with lower incomes and those with lower education levels are less likely than richer and more educated Americans to say they have done this.

Views on the morality of a variety of practices are largely stable, though fewer say same-sex relations are morally OK and more say the death penalty is.

Fifty-four percent of Americans think the death penalty is morally acceptable, an all-time low in Gallup's 20-year trend.

Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.

Americans are divided in their views of the morality of changing one's gender, with 51% saying it is morally wrong and 46% saying it is morally acceptable.

While social liberals and social conservatives differ in their views of most moral issues, abortion and gay/lesbian relations are the most divisive.