{"id":1957,"date":"2010-10-14T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2010-10-14T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:12:31","slug":"pew-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/pew-poll","title":{"rendered":"Pew Poll: Americans say lawmakers should be religious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/Politics-and-Elections\/Growing-Number-of-Americans-Say-Obama-is-a-Muslim.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center<\/a>, 61% of Americans say it is important that members of Congress have strong religious beliefs. 51% of Americans also say that churches should keep out of politics, though 43% indicated the church has an obligation to express its views on social and political questions.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also reflects that President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Muslim Problem&#8221; still persists, with 18% of Americans stating they believe the president is a practicing Muslim. Only 34% of Americans believe the president is a practicing Christian, <em>down<\/em> 14 points from March 2010. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, 61% of Americans say it is important that members of Congress have strong religious beliefs. 51% of Americans also say that churches should keep out of politics, though 43% indicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/pew-poll\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,233,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-politics","category-popular-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}