Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Recent statistics about evangelicals’ perceptions.

52%	75%	44%
U.S. evangelicals who would rather prohibit gay marriage through state laws than a constitutional amendment	Evangelical Americans who say they must fight to make their voices heard	Evangelicals’ favorability rating of Jerry Falwell
48%	46%	59%
Evangelicals who say a candidate’s support for gay marriage would disqualify him from getting their votes	Non-evangelicals who think evangelicals must fight to be heard	Favorability rating of Pope John Paul II
	73%
	Favorability ratings of Franklin Graham and James Dobson

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Source: March 2004 poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. for Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and U.S. News & World Report

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