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59 percent of Americans think Christianity is under attack here; 81 percent disagree with the statement that religion should be “excluded from public life”; 93 percent want “in God we trust” to remain on our currency and coinage; 90 percent are for keeping “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Alliance; 76 percent say public display of the Ten Commandments should be legal; 82 percent favor voluntary school prayer; and 77 percent believe “the courts have gone too far in taking religion out of public life.” As for opposition to same-sex marriage, which Rabbi Yoffie considers the hallmark of irrationality and bigotry, more than two dozen states have passed constitutional amendments defining marriage a la Genesis, and always by lopsided margins. These amendments have passed everywhere they’ve appeared on the ballot – including in such un-Bible Belt states as Oregon and Ohio.