Southern Evangelicals Support Torture

By Eric on September 18, 2008

That is, as long as it’s just us doing the torturing:

A new poll finds that nearly six in 10 white Southern evangelicals believe torture is justified, but their views can shift when they consider the Christian principle of the golden rule.

The poll released Thursday, commissioned by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University, found that 57% of respondents said torture can be often or sometimes justified to gain important information from suspected terrorists. Thirty-eight percent said it was never or rarely justified.

But when asked if they agree that “the U.S. government should not use methods against our enemies that we would not want used on American soldiers,” the percentage who said torture was rarely or never justified rose to 52%.

I wonder how many of those polled would identify themselves as “compassionate conservatives?”

Tags: evangelicals, torture

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