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Nearly three in 10 adults (28%) in 123 countries in 2013 say their city or area is a "good place" for gay or lesbian people to live, but attitudes range from a high of 83% in the Netherlands to a low of 1% in Pakistan and Senegal.

While many Americans see abortion as morally wrong, significantly fewer say it should be totally illegal.

Few Hispanic Americans prefer the term "Latinx" even as controversies have emerged over its use.

Highly religious Americans are less likely than others to drink alcohol and are more likely to view drinking as morally unacceptable.

Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans believe being gay is something a person is born with -- a slight decrease from 47% in 2013. Whereas 37% of Americans believe people become gay as a result of their upbringing and environment.

Despite declining fertility and marriage rates, Americans want to have children and to be married.

Several factors help explain why Americans are four times as likely to see polygamy as morally acceptable now compared with 14 years ago.

Americans' approval of the Supreme Court and their trust in it remain low. The public is divided on whether its ideology is "about right" or "too conservative."

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.

Coinciding with a general decline in religiosity in the U.S., a record-low 20% of Americans now say they believe the Bible is literally true.