Ask an American where they stand on abortion, gun control and global warming, and it’s likely their answers will all fall on or near the same spot on the left-right spectrum. Now a new culture war issue is emerging: religion’s role in public life.
Two new major polls out this week show Americans divided down the middle on questions such as whether they want clergy to speak more on public issues of the day. I wrote about this Monday after the release of a poll by the Pew Research Center. But a subsequent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute released on Tuesday revealed an even starker divide on the issue.
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