A recently released survey from LifeWay
Research reveals that a majority of both lay Americans and pastors believe that
religious liberty has waned in the United States.
In a September poll of 1,001 Americans,
LifeWay found that 54 percent agreed that "religious liberty is on the decline
in America." The number jumped 15 points when the same question was asked to
Protestant senior Evangelical and Mainline pastors. Of the 1,007 surveyed from
Sept. 4-19, 70 percent agreed.
Erik Stanley, the senior legal
counsel with Alliance for Defending Freedom and director of the Church Project,
told The Christian Post that the survey confirmed what the organization had
already observed anecdotally. Christian
News.
