Nearly Half Say U.S. Should Be a Christian Nation

A new Pew Research poll finds that 45% of Americans say the United States should be a “Christian nation.”

But Olivier Knox notes that means different things to people:

• 28% want the federal government to declare the country a Christian nation, while 52% say the government should never declare an official religion.
• 24% say the federal government should promote Christian values, while 52% say it should promote moral values shared by many faiths.
• 39% say the federal government should enforce separation of church and state, while 31% say it should stop enforcing it.