Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Oct. 12-24, 2005. A nationwide survey conducted among 2,006 adults: "Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified, sometimes be justified, rarely be justified, or never be justified?"
Total public answering often, sometimes, or rarely: 63%
Total public answering never: 32%
Total Catholic answering often, sometimes, or rarely: 72%
Total Catholic answering never: 26%
Total white Protestant answering often, sometimes, or rarely: 65%
Total white Protestant answering never: 31%
Total white Evangelical answering often, sometimes, or rarely: 65%
Total whte Evangelcal answering never: 31%
Total secular answering often, sometimes, or rarely: 51%
Total secular answering never: 41%
[... because everybody knows that atheists have no morals.]
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