ENI – A US survey confirmed that the Democratic Party has “a serious God problem,” with only 26 per cent of those surveyed feeling the party is friendly to religion.
However, the survey indicated that the Republican Party has problems of its own, with the percentage of those feeling the Republicans are friendly to religion dropping from 55 per cent in 2005 to 47 per cent this year.
In other findings, the survey found that only seven per cent of the US public identify with what some see as a burgeoning “religious left” political movement. By contrast, some 11 per cent of those surveyed label themselves as “religious right.”
While the survey found that white evangelical Christians comprise 24 per cent of the population, 32 per cent call themselves “liberal or progressive Christians.”
The survey found, those who place themselves in the conservative camp remain a more cohesive group, sharing many religious and social positions, than their liberal counterparts.
