A poll released Sept. 17, 2010, conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, that found that few people say that their religion shapes their views on issues outside of abortion and same-sex marriage including immigration.

An April 26, 2006, analysis of religious attitudes towards immigration from the Pew Research Center.

America’s Voice is a pro-immigration organization that tracks public polling information about immigration.

Catherine A. Brekus is an American religious historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is especially interested in early America and co-wrote a book titled American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity.

Mark Noll is emeritus professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and one of the most cited authorities today on evangelicalism in America — as well as on the relationship between evangelicals and Roman Catholics. He co-founded the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, where he taught for many […]

Garry Wills teaches cultural history at Northwestern University in Illinois and is a prolific author of books about American history, government and religion.

Richard Viladesau is author of Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty and Art (Oxford University Press, 1999), in which he discusses how beauty can reveal the divine. He is a professor of theology at Fordham University, a Catholic institution in New York, N.Y.

Mark Weldon Whitten is the author of The Myth of Christian America: What You Need to Know About the Separation of Church and State. He teaches religion and philosophy at Lone Star College – Montgomery in Texas. He says new research has shown that the founders had mixed opinions on the role of religion in the […]

John Eidsmoe is an Alabama constitutional lawyer, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and author of Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers. He has advised former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Contact [email protected].