Results of Coral Ridge Ministries’
2006 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?
[100%] Yes [0%] No [0%]
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” and without jeopardizing the tax-exempt status
of their churches?
[99%] Yes [0%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Do you support protecting the public display of the Ten
Commandments from the attacks of groups such as the ACLU?
[99%] Yes [0%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Should students have the right to pray in public school classrooms,
at sporting events, and graduation ceremonies?
[98%] Yes [0%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
Government Issues
1. Should we back away from America’s traditional pro-Israel stance,
in light of the hatred it engenders in the Islamic community?
[1%] Yes [94%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Is the United Nations a more trustworthy authority than the
government of the United States?
[2%] Yes [91%] No [7%]
Undecided/No Answer
Court Issues
1. Should the President choose Supreme Court Justices and federal
judges who will interpret the Constitution strictly, with out
legislating from the bench?
[96%] Yes [1%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should the Senate be barred from endlessly debating and
stonewalling the President judicial selections?
[91%] Yes [4%] No [6%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe V. Wade, the 1973
ruling that made abortion on demand legal in the United States?
[93%] Yes [2%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
Media/Television Issues
1. Do you believe that the national media report Christian, moral, and
religious issues in an unbiased manner?
[11%] Yes [87%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Do you support efforts to persuade advertisers and television
networks to clean up “trash TV” and to offer more family-valued
programming?
[98%] Yes [0%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Do you favor the restriction of homosexual displays of affection in
the media?
[95%] Yes [3%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
Sexual Morality Issues
1. Should homosexual couples have the same rights of marriage as
heterosexual married couples?
[11%] Yes [87%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should Congress pass and the states ratify a constitutional
amendment that limits marriage to a man and a woman?
[96%] Yes [1%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
Education Issues
1. Should schools promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle?
[0%] Yes [98%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Should schools be required to teach evolution as a theory rather
than a fact?
[87%] Yes [10%] No [4%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Should schools teach abortion as a woman’s right to choose?
[1%] Yes [97%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Should schools teach about contraceptive use?
[11%] Yes [74%] No [16%]
Undecided/No Answer
5. Should schools teach that only abstinence protects against sexually
transmitted diseases?
[95%] Yes [2%] No [3%]
Undecided/No Answer
6. Should schools be required to teach traditional American
history—including our religious moral heritage?
[99%] Yes [0%] 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?
[96%] Yes [2%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
2. Do you support legislation requiring abortionists to tell women
about the extreme pain their unborn child will experience during the
abortion procedure?
[97%] Yes [1%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
3. Should parents be allowed to raise, discipline, and educate their
children, free from government interference?
[95%] Yes [0%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
4. Should girls under 18 to be allowed to obtain abortions without
parental consent?
[9%] Yes [89%] No [1%]
Undecided/No Answer
5. Should taxpayer dollars flow into abortion provider
organizations like Planned Parenthood?
[1%] Yes [97%] No [2%]
Undecided/No Answer
Confidence Issues Do you trust each of the following groups?
Pastors
[69%] Yes [7%] No [24%]
Undecided/No Answer
Local government officials
[13%] Yes [58%] No [29%]
Undecided/No Answer
Local public school officials
[12%] Yes [62%] No [27%]
Undecided/No Answer
Congressional representatives
[13%] Yes [57%] No [30%]
Undecided/No Answer
The President
[76%] Yes [11%] No [13%]
Undecided/No Answer
The media
[1%] Yes [94%] No [5%]
Undecided/No Answer
*The Spiritual State of the Nation survey
was answered in early 2006 by more than 22,000 people.
