New Pew Poll Should Say “22% Say Democrats Unfriendly to Christianity”
Posted on 15 February 2010
The Pew Research Center released a poll today stating “22% – Say Democrats Unfriendly Toward Religion.”
But, if you look at what faith backgrounds the participants came from, they were all from Christian denominations. Maybe the poll question asked specifically about “religion” in general, but the participants all came from Christian backgrounds so it is hard to tell whether they were thinking “Christianity” when it said “religion.”
I know in my experience with Christians in the Midwest, a lot of evangelical Christians who follow a Republican voting line believe Democrats are “anti-Christian.” So when the idea of “religion” comes up, they look at it (like most of us do) from their own faith perspectives. I just think Pew needs to be clear on what exactly the participants think when they use the term “religion.” Because I know that if you think your own faith beliefs and traditions are under threat, the last thing you’re going to think of is the whether the other guy’s traditions are too.
Luckily, though, as the Pew poll points out, the perspective that Democrats are unfriendly to religion is decreasing. No political party, no matter how many secular, moderate, or super-religious people stand behind it, should be “anti-religion” or unfriendly to religion or any faith for that matter. In my view, religion and the religious voter are the few areas where all politicians should be clammoring for more votes.
No responses yet. You could be the first!
