Results of Coral Ridge Ministries’
15th Annual Spiritual State of the Nation Survey*
Religious Freedom Issues
1. Do you support efforts to uphold the rights of religious freedom
and expression in public life?
[98%] Yes [1%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should pastors and others be allowed to publicly speak out
against sexual sins, including
homosexuality, without fear of being charged with a “hate-crime”?
[96%] Yes [3%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Do you support the protection of the public display of the Ten
Commandments from the
attacks of groups such as the ACLU?
[95%] Yes [4%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Should pastors be allowed to address political, moral, and social
issues from their pulpits,
without jeopardizing the tax-exempt status of their churches?
[94%] Yes [2%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
5. Should students have the right to pray in public school classrooms,
at sporting events, and
graduation ceremonies?
[96%] Yes [3%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
Government Issues
1. Do you agree with U.S. policies in the battle against terrorism?
[78%] Yes [6%] No [16%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should we back away from America’s traditional pro-Israel stance,
in light of the hatred it
engenders in the Islamic community?
[7%] Yes [83%] No [10%]
Undecided/No Answer
Media/Television Issues
1. Do you believe that the national media report Christian, moral, and
religious issues in an
unbiased manner?
[8%] Yes [88%] No [4%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Do you believe that some of the national media present
anti-Christian programming under
the guise of “objectivity” and “journalism”?
[88%] Yes [7%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Do you support efforts to persuade advertisers and television
networks to clean up “trash TV” and
to offer more family valued programming?
[95%] Yes [3%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Do you favor the restriction of homosexual displays of affection in
the media?
[90%] Yes [8%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
Sexual Morality Issues
1. Should homosexual couples have the same rights of marriage as
heterosexual married couples?
[5%] Yes [94%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Do you support special legal rights for homosexuals?
[4%] Yes [93%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of legalizing homosexual
“marriages,” would you support
a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage?
[90%] Yes [7%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
Education Issues
1. Should schools promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle?
[4%] Yes [95%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should schools be required to teach evolution as a theory rather
than a fact?
[81%] Yes [14%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Should schools teach creationism?
[81%] Yes [7%] No [12%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Should schools teach abortion as a woman’s right to choose?
[5%] Yes [91%] No [4%]
Undecided/No Answer
5. Should schools teach about contraceptive use?
[19%] Yes [73%] No [8%]
Undecided/No Answer
6. Should schools teach about abstinence?
[95%] Yes [2%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
7. Should schools be required to teach traditional American
history—including our religious and
moral heritage?
[97%] Yes [2%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
Family Issues
1. Do you support a ban on partial-birth abortion and believe that we
should support efforts to
defend the law in court?
[92%] Yes [4%] No [4%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should parents be allowed to raise, discipline, and educate their
children, free from government
interference?
[89%] Yes [3%] No [8%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Should girls under 18 to be allowed to obtain abortions without
parental consent?
[3%] Yes [94%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
Confidence Issues Do you trust each of the following groups?
