Churchgoers Most Supportive of the War
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com
May 1, 2006

The recent headline of a Gallup poll was revealing: "Protestants and Frequent Churchgoers Most Supportive of Iraq War; Least supportive are non-Christians and people with no religion."
This poll, released last month, gained almost no media attention.

Gallup reports that church-going Protestants most support the Iraq War, with Catholic churchgoers being less supportive but still more supportive than non-churchgoers. The most negative towards the war are the non-religious, sixty percent of whom think the war was mistake. In contrast, only 41 percent of church going Protestants who think the war was mistaken.

Even among Republicans, churchgoers were more supportive than non-church going Republicans. The same variance was true among political independents, who were likelier to support the war the more often they attend church.

Overall, according to Gallup, 44 percent of weekly churchgoers in America think the Iraq War was a mistake. In contrast, 62 percent of non-church goers think it was a mistake. Only 15 percent of Republicans who attend church weekly think the war was a mistake. Eighty-one percent of Democrats who never attend church think the war was a mistake. the rest