Are blacks more homophobic than whites?

Razib takes on a question I posed yesterday. Specifically, what is the best predictor of homophobia. Unlike lazy-ass bloggers who sit around speculating, Razib ran some data. It has limitations in that it doesn't address the specific claim that blacks are "the most homophobic ethnic group in America." For instance we don't have a comparison with other ethnic groups. But it does answer two questions--Controlling for the variables, are blacks more homophobic than whites? And, is race the best predictor of homophobia?

Smart, educated and very liberal blacks are less tolerant of homosexuals than similar whites. In fact, among downscale sectors there isn't much of a difference between whites and blacks, the difference shows up among the upscale. There isn't that much of a difference between fundamentalist blacks and whites. There is a big difference between blacks and whites who consider themselves religious liberals; the former are far less homophobic than black fundamentalists, but note that they're about as gay friendly as white religious moderates.

All that being said, I play around with a multiple regression model by treating some of these categorical but ordinal variables as existing along a numerical interval. That is, HOMOSEX was a dependent variable on a 1-4 interval. The religious variables and age were powerful predictors of the variation in attitudes toward homosexuality, but race not so much (not even statistically significant). I wanted to post the charts above because I don't necessarily trust these sorts of slap-dash regressions, but my quick & dirty checks imply that race is a less powerful predictor than religion and age.

In short blacks are, indeed, more homophobic than whites. But race isn't the best way to think about it. I think I'm getting that right.