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

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."

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.

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 Americans support transgender military service, a majority believe birth gender, rather than gender identity, should govern participation in sports.

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.

Forty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, unchanged from the record low measured last fall.

Why is it important that we measure the number of people in the U.S. who identify as LGBT? And what are the challenges involved in measuring this population?