It's not the government's job to promote traditional values, Americans say

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last updated 30 September 2015

For more than two decades, Americans have evinced a declining interest in having the government promote traditional values, but newly released poll results from Gallup mark just the second time a clear majority has favored state neutrality. While 43 percent of Americans still believe government has a role in encouraging traditional morals, 51 percent now say that's none of the government's business.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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