34% of Americans Would Make Christianity The Official State Religion

[Initech]

Although a large percentage of Americans said they would favor establishing a state religion, only 11 percent said they thought the U.S. Constitution allowed states to do so. Fifty-eight percent said they didn't think it was constitutional, and 31 percent said they were not sure.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment, which (among other things) prohibits the government from establishing an official religion, also applies to the states.

Republicans were more likely than Democrats or independents to say that they would favor establishing Christianity as an official state religion, with 55 percent favoring it in their own state and 46 percent favoring a national constitutional amendment.

The relatively high level of support for establishing Christianity as a state religion may be reflective of dissatisfaction with the current balance of religion and politics. Respondents to the poll were more likely to say that the U.S. has gone too far in keeping religion and government separate than they were to say religion and government are too mixed, by a 37-29 percent margin. Only 17 percent said that the country has struck a good balance in terms of the separation of church and state.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/christianity-state-religion_n_3022255.html

If it only weren't for that pesky first amendment thing.....

[alp227]

1. Not from the Onion?! BOOOOO!!!!

And why doesn't this have any responses yet? The fact that 34 percent of people in this nation want theocracy is just...wow...should ALARM anyone who cares about the First Amendment and American values! This has been nearly 3 decades hell even more in the making, starting with the Religious Right-backed Reagan Revolution of the 1980s with such players as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Moral Majority, Focus on the Family, etc. getting more influence in American politics.

Then in the illegitimate installation of George W. Bush by the US Supreme Court the 2000s the 2004 "re-election" of Dim Son became the "tipping point" for The Family and The Religious Right as their victories also included state level bans on gay marriage, the Bush regime supporting a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to ban gay marriage, and a "partial birth abortion" ban whatever that is. I even remember that "liberals want to ban the bible when allowing gay marriage" mailer from 2004! I consider 2004 the "tipping point" for the Religious Right because in the following years atheist thinkers like Richard Dawkins (with his 2006 book The God Delusion), Christopher Hitchens (also in 2006 released a book, God Is Not Great), and PZ Myers became more popular and got more Americans questioning the whole concept of religion.

2008: Barack Obama wins election despite much opposition by the Religious Right. Prop 8 passes in CA, but Prop 8 is the tipping point in the Christian War on Gay Rights, as in the following years a lot of Californians realized they made mistakes in voting for P8, and people nationwide realize that the anti-gay industry had been selling them defective goods all along! While Obama won re-election in 2012, unfortunately the Obama presidency has created a lot of red meat for the evangelical industry to scare those living in the Bible Belt and other blood red parts of the nation. We still have a long way to go, as these poll results show.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. If polls were accurate (and not just made up bullshit), Dewey would have been President.

[JI7]

3. is that about the percentage republicans will get for sure nationally ?

[LuvNewcastle]

4. That's close to the amount of support G.W. Bush had when

he left office. The Fundies loved them some Dubya. They're the dominionist, tongue-speaking, home-schooling sure thing GOP base.