Gallup Poll
King’s last full year of life: Protest, praise, ire, incarceration
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2022
(RNS) — King drew criticism from Billy Graham, who told journalists that he thought King was wrong to link anti-war efforts with the civil rights movement.
The hollowing out of American religion
By Mark Silk — April 5, 2021
(RNS) — Its consequences for American politics are hard to exaggerate.
Behind Gallup’s portrait of church decline
By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson — March 31, 2021
(RNS) — America’s religious life will be shaped not by secularization alone.
Good news, bad news on churchgoers’ views of Trump
By Mark Silk — October 5, 2019
(RNS) — In a new Gallup poll, the biggest gap between Trump's job approval rating and how Americans feel about him personally, percentage-wise, comes from weekly churchgoers.
To save our politics, we need new ways to think and speak about abortion
By Charles C. Camosy — May 31, 2019
(RNS) — When it comes to talking about abortion, restricting people to a simplistic 'pro-life' or 'pro-choice' identity creates the mother of all antagonistic binaries.
Polygamy’s becoming more acceptable. Is this the ‘Sister Wives’ effect?
By Jana Riess — August 1, 2017
Nearly one in five Americans see polygamy as morally acceptable, says Gallup. How do Mormons feel about it, and why?
Trump ties Pope Francis as second ‘most admired,’ behind Obama
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 28, 2015
(RNS) The president and Hillary Clinton are tops on the list but The Donald and the pontiff were also "top of mind" for many Americans when asked who they most admired.
Are Americans ready for a Muslim president? New poll suggests maybe
By Julie Poucher Harbin — July 14, 2015
(RNS) As more Muslims enter public service sectors, Americans are more accepting of them.
Americans’ confidence in religion hits a new low
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 17, 2015
(RNS) The church and organized religion once led Gallup's annual list of institutions rated with the highest levels of confidence. Not anymore.
Utah highest, Vermont lowest on newest church attendance poll
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — February 19, 2015
(RNS) Mormons put Utah on top, with 51 percent of Utah residents attending church weekly, the highest in U.S., according to a new Gallup poll.
Party ties, not religious ones, drive down Obama’s approval rating
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 11, 2014
(RNS) The newest Gallup poll finds most Christians don’t approve of President Obama and most Muslims do.
Gallup: Gay sex, divorce, extramarital sex reach new highs of ‘moral acceptability’
By Kevin Eckstrom — May 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Gallup Poll's annual "moral acceptability" scale has been conducted since 2001 and charts shifting cultural attitudes on a number of hot-button social issues.
Gallup reports new low in religious confidence
By Bruce Nolan — July 16, 2012
(RNS) Americans’ confidence in organized religion, slowly but steadily declining since the 1970s, slipped to a new low in the latest survey, the Gallup Organization reported. By Bruce Nolan.
Trouble for Mitt Romney? Poll says anti-Mormon bias unchanged since 1967
By Daniel Burke — June 21, 2012
(RNS) Nearly one in five Americans would not vote for a Mormon president, a percentage that has barely budged since 1967, according to Gallup pollsters. By Daniel Burke.
Polls: Most Americans call gay relationships “moral” and are not swayed by Obama’s same-sex marriage support
By David Gibson — May 14, 2012
(RNS) President Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage opened a torrent of speculation on what his newly enunciated position will mean politically, but the latest polls indicate the public largely backs his views and that his stance won’t hurt him at the ballot box. By David Gibson. About 250.
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