Liberals Will Be Stunned To Learn What The Non-Religious Think About School Prayer

Liberal efforts to stop government schools from posting the Ten Commandments or allow prayer may be running counter to what many liberals believe.

The Pew Research Center reports their latest poll finds that “many Americans are receptive to religious expressions at public schools.”

“A majority of Americans in both political parties, all major geographic regions and most of the country’s large religious groups favor allowing public school students to voluntarily pray in student-led groups,” Pew writes.

Pew finds, overall:

78% of U.S. adults favor allowing students to voluntarily pray in student-led groups.

57% favor allowing coaches to lead their teams in prayer.

50% favor displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

46% favor allowing teachers to lead their classes in prayer.

While the poll found the expected supermajorities in favor of religious liberty among Republicans and evangelical Christians, it found nearly all Americans support prayer in schools.

Specifically, Pew found 69% of Democrats and 64% of the “religiously unaffiliated” favor “allowing public school students to pray voluntarily in student-led groups.”

Support for religious expression in government schools diverges when it comes to requiring student prayer.

“Religiously unaffiliated Americans – those who identify as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’ when asked about their religion – mostly say teachers should not be allowed to lead their classes in prayer at all (59% say this),” Pew writes.

“Most Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support teacher-led prayer in some form. By contrast, a slight majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners oppose teacher-led prayer in classrooms, even if it’s voluntary,” Pew finds.

Pew also found that, overall, “about six-in-ten Americans support allowing some form of teacher-led school prayer.”

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