More Americans Question Religion's Role in Politics

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 Pew-religion-politics Conservatives' views now more in line with the views of moderates and liberals on this issue WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new national survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had voiced support for religious institutions speaking out on such issues. The latest survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted from July 31-Aug. 10 among 2,905 adults, reveals that most of the reconsideration of the desirability of religious... [read full story]