5 facts about religion and Americans’ views of Donald Trump
Among religious groups, White evangelical Protestants continue to have the most positive opinion of Trump.
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Among religious groups, White evangelical Protestants continue to have the most positive opinion of Trump.
Americans say they don’t consider Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to be particularly religious.
There are differences by religious tradition in how satisfied churchgoers are with what they hear from the pulpit.
In Brazil – home to the world’s largest Catholic population – a majority of Catholics are in favor of allowing priests to marry.
Most Christians in America say that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by their sex at birth. Yet, many religious “nones” have different views.
The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. religious groups.
Among voters who attend religious services at least once a month, relatively few say election information was made available to them in their places of worship.
Our new survey focusing on contraception, same-sex marriage and transgender rights finds the public closely divided over some – though not all – of these issues.
As Donald Trump has racked up big wins among self-described “born-again or evangelical” Christians in many of the early primaries, some religious leaders, political analysts and researchers have questioned whether many of these self-described evangelicals actually are evangelical Christians.
A new gene-editing method called CRISPR exemplifies how the technology is rapidly becoming a present-day reality. Yet, Americans are wary of editing embryos, according to a survey on the broader field of “human enhancement.”
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