This issue keeps coming up with Obama/Religion, and since that seems to be related directly to this thread, heres the latest A-Press released within the last few minutes relating to Obamas faith.
It just won’t go away. The Pew Research Center reports that a growing number of Americans – nearly one in five – think President Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary.
At 18 percent, the number is up from 11 percent in March 2009, soon after he took office. The nationwide telephone survey reached more than 3,000 on landlines and cell phones in late July and early August – before the president’s comments last weekend in support of the right of Muslims to build a mosque in Lower Manhattan near the site of the 9/11 attacks.
“The view that Obama is a Muslim is more widespread among his political opponents than among his backers,” Pew said. “Roughly a third of conservative Republicans (34 percent) say Obama is a Muslin, as do 30 percent of those who disapprove of Obama’s job performance. but even among his supporters and allies, less than half now say Obama is a Christian.”
Obama is a Protestant, although he has not affiliated with a church since moving to Washington. His father was Muslim and the family lived for a period during his childhood in Indonesia, a huge Muslim country. In Chicago before his election as president, Obama was a member of a United Church of Christ congregation (famously led by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright).
Lingering questions and rumors about the president’s religious faith and citizenship, often spread on the Internet, are an annoying distraction for the White House. Obama’s faith adviser, Joshua DuBois, told the Washington Post that “while the president has been diligent and personally committed to his own Christian faith, there’s certainly folks who are intent on spreading falsehoods about the president and his values and beliefs.”
Pew said the belief that Obama is Muslim grew most sharply among Republicans – up 14 points – but more independents also buy it, up eight points since 2009. Separately, a Time magazine poll, which sampled just over 1,000 adults earlier this week, found 24 percent believed Obama was Muslim, compared to 47 percent who said he was Christian. Twenty-four percent said they didn’t know the president’s religion.
“Beliefs about Obama’s religion are closely linked to political judgments about him,” Pew said. “Those who say he is a Muslim overwhelmingly disapprove of his job performance, while a majority of those who think he is a Christian approve of the job Obama is doing.” The margin error for the poll was plus or minus 2.5 percent.
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So the plus or minus ratio of the article being correct is also 5%.
