New poll says Americans becoming disenchanted with religious right and religious left
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Mixing God And Politics: Where Do Americans Really Stand?
By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar
09.03.06
Caught in the crossfire of culture-war battles over religion and politics, most Americans may be ready to say “a plague on both your houses.”Click through for more analysis of the poll results.
At least that’s one way to read a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and released Aug. 24.
According to the survey, nearly half of Americans (49%) believe conservative Christians have gone too far in trying to impose their religious values on the country. At the same time, 69% think liberals have gone too far in trying to keep religion out of schools and government.