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The AP goes with the religious right’s preferred number.

Something is clearly up (or down) with religious affiliation, but reading that data calls for the art for interpretation, not mathematical modeling. That’s what makes this story far more interesting—and far less funny.

Small minority rejects legal recognition for same-sex couples; overwhelming majority rejects “ex-gay” therapies.

Tea partiers don’t care about gay marriage? Think again.

If you haven’t heard of Jonathan Haidt yet, you probably will soon. The social psychologist from the University of Virginia is making quite a media splash. Most recently, he set off a small media storm by calling out his fellow psychologists for unacknowledged liberal bias. …

New Public Religion Research Institute survey also shows Fox News viewers more likely to be engaged in, approve of Peter King hearings.

A Brookings study contending that religion didn’t play a central role has a very particular idea of what a “religious issue” actually is.

Countering the right’s narratives is not an “uphill battle.”

Maybe. But there are better explanations.

As young people leave the church, the GOP could find itself in a whole heap of demographic trouble.