ABC News: Religious freedom in America: popular and polarizing

In an Associated Press story shared by dozens of media outlets, the University of Cincinnati’s politics and religion expert Andrew Lewis speaks to a new religious freedoms poll conducted by the University of Chicago Divinity School and Tthe Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Lewis, an associate political science professor who focuses on religion, said a “polarization of religious freedom” has developed over the last two decades, with potentially negative consequences.

In the poll, 77% of liberals said Muslims’ freedoms were threatened at least somewhat, compared with 32% of conservatives. Liberals also were roughly three times more likely than conservatives to perceive threats to atheists and Buddhists, and somewhat more likely to perceive threats to Jews, 56% to 41%.

By contrast, by roughly two to one, more conservatives than liberals said evangelical Protestants, Catholics and other Christians face threats to their religious freedom.

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https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Religious-freedom-in-America-popular-polarizing-15463040.php

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Religious-freedom-in-America-popular-polarizing-15463040.php

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2020/08/religious-freedom-in-america-popular-and-polarizing/

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Religious-freedom-in-America-popular-and-15460385.php

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