Ross Sauer -> All wrote:
 RS> Dan, here's one of those "No DUH!" stories from CNN.


 RS> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely
 RS> they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new
 RS> analysis.

 RS> More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54
 RS> percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is
"often"
 RS> or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who
"seldom or never"
 RS> go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew
 RS> Forum on Religion & Public Life.

 RS> White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say
 RS> torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than 6 in 10 supported it.
 RS> People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to
 RS> back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

 RS> http://tinyurl.com/cjtpzx

Now, for the rest of the story:

"The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American
adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other
than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline
Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was
too small."

How convenient of you to leave off the last paragraph.

Ed

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