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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the
more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists,
according to a new survey.
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54
percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is
"often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom
or never" go to services agreed, according to the analysis released
Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to
say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10
supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were
least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.
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basic point, though, is we should never under any circumstances allow
low-level people to administer torture. If torture is going to be
administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save
enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with
accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or
by a Supreme Court justice."
Alan M. Dershowitz, interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN, March 4, 2003.
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