Posted on 08/25/2006 2:37:15 PM PDT by neverdem
A new poll shows that fewer Americans view the Republican Party as friendly to religion than a year ago, with the decline particularly steep among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants constituencies at the core of the Republicans conservative Christian voting bloc.
The survey found that the proportion of Americans who say the Republican Party is friendly to religion fell 8 percentage points in the last year, to 47 percent from 55 percent. Among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants, the decline was 14 percentage points.
The Democratic Party suffers from the perception of an even more drastic religion deficit, but that is not new. Just 26 percent of poll respondents said the Democratic Party was friendly to religion, down from 29 percent last year.
The telephone poll, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, was conducted July 6-19 among 2,003 adults. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus three to four percentage points, depending on the question.
The survey examined Americans attitudes on such topics as politics, science, the Bible, global warming and Israel. But the most startling change, said John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, was the perception of the Republican Party by its core constituency.
Its unclear how directly this will translate into voting behavior, Mr. Green said, but this is a baseline indicator that religious conservatives see the party theyve chosen to support as less friendly to religion than they used to.
He speculated that religious conservatives could feel betrayed that some Republican politicians recently voted to back stem cell research, and that a Republican-dominated Congress failed to pass an amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.
At the minimum, there will be less good will toward...
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So they're going to vote for the Dems? Most Republicans are not happy with the squishy RINO's, but they'll never vote Democrat.
I smell a rat.
Stupidest...poll...ever.
Stem cell research is a problem for me, but I think outlawing homosexual marriage is a state issue, not a federal issue. That said, and even though I'm as disgusted by RINOs as the next person, no way would I EVER vote for a dem. The RINOs are wishy-washy, spendthrifts, and annoying; the dems would destroy us.
Typical. A NY Times poll bashing Christians and Republicans wriiten by a Jewish woman. Great this is not biased.
This is satire, right Laurie? ROTFL!
I wouldn't believe a poll such as this in any event.
The bias is in the retarded poll itself. I can imagine the questions on this poll leading up to "So is the GOP friendly to religion?" What a stupid, useless poll question, keeping in line with the MSMs use of polls to create news where there is none.
"A new poll shows that fewer Americans view the Republican Party as friendly to religion than a year ago, with the decline particularly steep among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants constituencies at the core of the Republicans conservative Christian voting bloc. '
Sort of like those White Catholics in Bahhstan and the evangelical Christians who are frequently visited by Kerry and Company.
I put no faith in this article.
Hmmm. I was not aware that satanism was such a large group.
They are so short of good news that this has to suffice.
Catholics are wishy-washy in politics. Majority have traditional voted for DemonRats up and until the Reagan era. I have no time for Catholics or any denomination members who resort back to the Stupid Party.
They are betting your farm on it, and you may well lose it.
Notice how the headline is negative towards the GOP. In the body of the article you read that support for the Democrats on this issue also slipped. The MSM, if given a choice, will always bash the Republicans in their headline. In many cases when you read the article it is just as bad, or even worse, for the Democrats.
For religious conservatives, the choice is between a party that is somewhat sympathetic to their views and policy goals, and a party that is almost completely hostile to their views and policy goals. The choice should be easy.
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